I have been trying to convert Word 2007 documents (*.doc) into PDF files, using the PDFMaker plugin, without any success.
The annoying pop-up message (…missing pdfmaker files…) was coming up all the time.
The only solution to the problem is to use the old “print” trick. Open the Office document, and select Print->Print (not Quick Print). Instead of your default printer, choose the Adobe PDF printer, and use Properties to configure the PDF output. This works like a charm.
Looking forward for an Acrobat update.
An alternative is the “Microsoft Save As PDF” add-in for Office 2007.
Edit (07/06/2007):
The 8.1 update has finally been released, which is supposed to fix the problem.
Have a same problem 😦
Have you tried the “print” trick?
“print” trick works fine for me, however there should be other way to solve the problem
OK guys there is a temporary solution untill Adobe launches the update and fix incompatibility. Open any word document, go to the print window and choose options. click the save option and change your saving file format to Word .doc 1997-2003 version. Adobe is still incompatible with MO 2007 .docx file format. If you start saving in to 1997-2003 format adobe works fine with the right click and convert method.
I hope you find this usefull info. 😉
Thanks for the comment Kenzo.
This is not working for me.
1.set adobe pdf se as default printer
2.*.doc ———-right click ———print
3.EnJoy
Or
1.use word 2007 change *.doc ——- *.docx
2.convert to adobe pdf
3.EnJoy
I used to save my emails as pdf files with office 2003 and acrobat 7 . This feature is gone now office 2007 and acrobat 8. “Microsoft save as pdf” does not work with Outlook. It’s a mess.
Good…..the ‘print’ tricks also work fine for me. thanz to u guys coz now my problems are solved
It is right Kenzo, it works, but the preblem is still with equations in 2007 and advanced text boxes, when you convert the file from 2007 to 2003, the equation dissappeared.
Thank you all….
Print trick didn’t work for me – however, printing as an MS .xps file and then opening that in Acrobat DID work for me. Hope that helps someone else…
I have both Adobe Prof 8 and Office 2007.
I can create PDf one at a time…no combining multiple PDF’s into one.
However, i am constantly getting Adobe fatal error message saying i should reinstall the program and try again. Am i doing something wrong?
I have installed the MS create PDF add on and have updated Adobe to 8.1.
What a complete balls up by both parties here.
Anyone know if there is a fix out to allow the creation of a single pdf from multiple files using Adobe Standard 8.0 and MS Office 2007? This is BS….the only reason I bought Acrobat was to be able to combine multiple files. I don’t know whether to be pissed at Microsoft or Adobe…..but Mac and generic pdf programs are looking very good about now.
You must upgrade your Acrobat professional from version 8.0 to 8.1 then your problem will be gone.
great blog! was looking exactly for this solution.. thanks!
IT WORKED (printing to a PDF)!! – Thanks.
Yes, it did work. Thank you so much for posting the fix.
What I do is I save the document in 2007 format, then close it, go to its folder, right-click it, and select “Convert to Adobe PDF”. Then, it works, but of course I can’t use multiple files to do that
adobe is trying to open a 2007 word that was sent as an attachment. what can i do to get it to open in word 2007?
How do I do the opposite? I need to take an Adobe 8.0 PDF read only file and convert it to a Word 2007 document
3 months it was working without a problem acro pro 8.1 and office 2007. since the last update, the add-in is deactivated and cannot be activated due to an registry key problem. what a hell.
This still happens on on computers at my work with Acrobat 8 pro ver. 8.1.1 and Office 2007 with and without SP1. Is there something else that needs to be applied
hi I found the solutuion for this probelm (had the same problem too).
Solution: Remove Adobe PDF from the Disabled Items list in the Microsoft Office application.
To manage your Disabled Items list in a Microsoft Office application:
1. Open the Microsoft Office application (Word, Excel, Publisher).
2. Choose Help > About [the application name] .
3. Click Disabled Items.
4. Select Adobe PDF from the list, and click Enable.
5. Quit the Microsoft Office application, and then restart it.
If the error message continues to appear after you enable Adobe PDF, then check the security level for macros in Word:
1. Choose Tools > Macro > Security.
2. In the Security dialog, click the Security tab.
3. Choose Medium or High.
4. Do one of the following:
— If you chose Medium, then click OK.
— If you chose High, then continue with steps 5 through 7.
5. Click the Trusted Publishers tab.
6. Check Trust all installed add-ins and templates.
7. Click OK.
PDFMaker and the right-click context menu should function again.
Dear Staeger,
that doesn’t work… :-((
Thankyou thankyou thankyou, I wasted 4 hours this morning trying to get a pdf made and finally stumbled onto this site, the print trick worked for me. I am using Microsoft Office 7 and Acrobat 9.
Where can you find the “Disabled Items” in word 2007?
so i can do:
Open the Microsoft Office application (Word, Excel, Publisher).
2. Choose Help > About [the application name] .
3. Click Disabled Items.
4. Select Adobe PDF from the list, and click Enable.
5. Quit the Microsoft Office application, and then restart it.
I get an error every time I’m trying to use “Print” trick…
It says :
adobe pdf creation could not continue because acrobat is not activated.
What does it mean?
I have a legal serial number for my adobe acrobat 8.0 and I can’t fix this activation issue.
You need to activate your legal Acrobat version via the Internet or via the phone. Check Acrobat’s help menu for further instructions.
I can print to pdf, but can not convert. The icon is there. convert works fine in outlook and excel. I am running word 2007 and Adobe 8.1.2. Any suggestions?
Open the Microsoft Office application (Word, Excel, Publisher).
2. Choose Help > About [the application name] .
3. Click Disabled Items.
4. Select Adobe PDF from the list, and click Enable.
5. Quit the Microsoft Office application, and then restart it.
in office 2007 when i choose hepl, what i type in place of [the application name]
Where do I find the help button in MS Office?
I don’t see anything that say help>about MS Word?
I see a question mark in the top right corner but that doesn’t lead me to the right place. I am trying to see if Abobe PDF has been disabled.
Downloading the latest version of Acrobat 8 pro will resolve the issue.
Thanks! 🙂
Hi,
I m trying to convert a pdf file to word document file but failed. I tried with other pdf-doc and doc-pdf and it sometimes works sometimes not. In which case the Acrobat can not convert a pdf file to doc file and how to fix it then? FYI, i convert that pdf with another PC then it can be converted into word file.
I m using Word 2007 and Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. PLease help. Thanks. Jen
To find “help” in 07 Office
in Office 07 applications (say, Word), click the big colorful bottom on your left upper hand corner (where you find the full menu), at the very bottom of your menu, click “word options”. In the pop-up window, left hand side list, click “Add-ins”, at the bottom of the right hand side panel, choose “manage ‘disabled items'”. Adobe should be in the new panel, and highlight Adobe item, click “enable”.
This put Adobe Tab back to your MS applications (basically reinstalled Add-ins) but still didn’t solve the converting problem. The “save as an earlier version” didn’t work either.
Thanks everyone. I tried to uninstall Acrobat 7.0 (have 8.0 too) and couldn’t thanks to the installation source issue. When I delete the 7.0 files, something went kaflooey, of course, and I had the same pdfmaker problem. Problem solved thanks to you. I have MS Office 2007. The “disabled addins” steps worked perfectly. Now if I can get the rest of my computer to work as well.
Everyone keeps saying to go to the Disabled Items list in Word and re-enable it, but this isn’t in my disabled items list. We have upgraded everyone that uses Acrobat to 8.1.2 on both Pro and Standard, but in Word 2007, the Ribbon functions do not work, though they did when Acrobat was initially installed.
I am so disappointed in Adobe for not doing better QC before pushing out such issues to their customers.
We can Save As with the Microsoft PDF-XPS add-in, but we should have the functionality that was PAID for in purchasing Acrobat from Adobe.
If you have a solution, please let me know. Again,
the empty Disabled List isn’t the option.
We are also experiencing the “PDFMaker is not installed” issues. We have a client with Acrobat 5 through 8.0 (Pro) installed and we are rolling out Office2007 to multiple sites.
On one machine, AcrobatPro8 will work fine until the .1 patch is downloaded, then the only fix is to remove and reinstall. Just today even avoiding the download did not work, and the ribbon went away and the error came back. Note that the PDF add in is not in the disabled items, and no changes were made since Friday when the 2 products were (seemingly) integrated fine. He still has the ability to go to print.. and choose the PDF printer from Adobe to create PDFs, but this will not work for multiple files and the type of work he is doing.
Another user is on Pro7, and has the same issues. Note that he noticed it when he would open Acrobat, go to file… create pdf from file, browse to a word document, and attempt to create the file from that doc. The issue occurred with both 03 and 07 sourced docs. I tried all 14 suggested fixes from here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=330984
(even though Office07 was not listed) and none of them worked. If we could only figure out the root cause, we could actually fix this. Is it a registry entry? A corrupt file? A bad template?
Who would have thought a $500 license would give you such headaches?
It worked for me, Staeger. Thanks. Was going nuts trying to troubleshoot this.
I just solved this issue for Office2007. This is how I did it:
As most people said, I enabled the add-in by clicking the office button, then hitting Word Options. Click Add-ins.
In the Add-ins window, change manage to “Disabled Items” and click go. Highlight the adobe application and click enable.
The part i think most people are missing is this: Now change manage to “COM Add-Ins” and click go. Put a checkmark next to the adobe application and click OK. Adobe should now show up in the Active Application Add-Ins list.
I hope this works for others. 🙂
Hi Mortalwombat, just droppin a line to confirm that your solution is working for me, too. 🙂
Thanks!
mortalwombat your method works. Thanks. Thanks for your time. I would have never done it on my own.
mortalwombat your method works. Thanks. Thanks for your time. I would have never done it on my own.
However, this doesnot work for powerpoint 2007 It works for word 2007.
However, this doesnot work for powerpoint 2007 It works for word 2007.gr
Also wanted to thank you mortalwombat for posting the solution, would have never figured that out on my own! Not sure how it gets disabled; maybe when Adobe crashes? Either way, that is definitely the solution.
If you find (as I did) that none of these solutions and none of Microsoft or Adobe’s support solutions for the problem work, install all updates both Office 2007 and your Adobe products. I can’t tell you which update it was that fixed this problem for me, but between the 2, they have come up with a solution in a hotfix. You won’t find this hotfix by searching their sites, so just leave the updates running. All the best.
awesome. i was trying to print din a3 from office / word 2007 but the pdf was always cut on the sides. printing to xps and then opening that file in adobe and savin it as a pdf worked for me. thank you!
hab versucht ein DIN A3 Blatt aus word 2007 als PDF zu exportieren aber die seiten waren immer abgeschnitten. der trick: druck als XPS Datei und diese dann in Adobe öffnen. Da dann als PDF speichern und Voila 🙂
Oops…mortalwombat’s fix didn’t work for me, either.
Running Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard & Office 2007.
Gotta love being forced to workaround this problem after paying thousands for licensing this product.
The print trick worked great for me!!!
Thanks a lot for all the postings.
No in word 2007, with acrobat 7.1.0…it do not work and message come “missing pdf maker files”.
I check add-in, everything is ok, but it do not work.
thanks in advance and please help.
good work decoding… two thumbs up!!
THANKS SOOOO MUCH! three hours later and I’ve finally fixed…. it was a combination of Staeger and Mortalwombat!! Thanks — I need this because I use it for mail merge documents — I get separate pdf’s from a whole string of records…. thanks!
Here’s what worked for me:
When you’re ready to save your .docx document in Word 2007;
1) Go to the “Save As” option, enter the name of the file you wish to save it as.
2) Directly under the “File name” field, click on the pull-down menu under “Save As Type”.
3) Select “PDF (*.pdf)”
I’m sure that some users had success with the pervious methods, but this is the only solution that worked for me.
Adobe Acrobat 8, Word 2007 and Vista SP1 (PDFMaker add-in was never “disabled”). Updated Office 2007 via Windows Update in Vista to latest SP/patch levels AND updated Acrobat 8 to at least 8.1.3 and now right-click function works and Adobe toolbar is back on the ribbon in all Office apps!
Has anyone figured out if there is a setting for the 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS option to change the version of PDF that gets created.
I was just at a training and found when you do a SAVE AS > PDF, the version of the PDF created is 1.5 (Acrobat 6.x). I need to be able to change this, maybe to 5.x and maybe to 7.x.
I have not found any info on why it defaults to 6.x or if there is a way to change that. I even asked the instructor and they didn’t know either. I search the Microsoft site and found nothing on the version setting.
Marvin’s solution was the only one that worked for me but what I realized after looking through the pdf was that I had some bad references to Figures or Tables.
When I fixed these references, I was able to convert the file to pdf in the conventional manner!!
Hope this helps someone!
Has anyone found a way to also generate the bookmarks when creating a pdf from Word 2007. Whether I use the Print function or the microsoft plugin, I’m not getting my bookmarks.
I am having the same issue. I have a word 2007 mail merge, which I can print into one PDF (acrobat 8 professional), however I loose my bookmarks. Please help.
hi there, so basically I can’t make PDF’s at all. The print trick doesn’t work and all others don’t work either. basically it lets me select print and I choose adobe PDF printer and then save it what I want to call it, then it looks like its about to work and then just disappears. and the print icon on the lower right shows up and when I open that it says print error. Can anyone help me? Thanks. Save to PDF doesn’t work either.
hi,
i have been experincing the same problems evryone is disscraibing here. the acrobat ribbon desapered and because of that i could’t send merged mail by email in a pdf format – i was looking for a salution and didn’t find it we ended up sending manule the letters: creating a signale pdf letter and then sending it – it took for ever!!!!
thanks to the information here i got thing working again in the right order
thank a millllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!
I’m still unable to print a MS Office Word 2007 document so that embedded text boxes also print using Adobe 8.1.5.
Advice here is to conver back to MS Word 97-2003.doc file. That works, but what a backward step. I keep installing the (too) regular Adobe updates, but no change.
Any advance on solving this problem.
Thanks Maria, your solution worked!
i am using window xp, anytime i open pdf sent to my email it opens in certain numbers, alphabets and some letters written in other language order than english. please help me to be able to open my pdf in english language