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I have reinstalled PDFMaker. And yes, it was working before, and then one
day it didn't anymore. I have Acrobat 5.0 and would not mind using the
two-step method, but it does not allow you to automatically create bookmarks
in the document. That is the main reason I would like to get this up and
running again.
Jennifer
-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Hollis Weber [mailto:jean -at- jeanweber -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:05 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: JItatani -at- peinc -dot- com
Subject: Re: PDFMaker error
Recent versions of Acrobat (4 and 5) provide two ways to "Save as PDF" from
Word (97 and above, at least) using PDFMaker. One choice ("Use Distiller")
does the two-step print to PostScript and then distill process. The other
choice ("Use PDFWriter") is the method to avoid. (I don't have problems
using the "Use Distiller" option in Acrobat 4.)
However, although David's message offers a useful workaround to the
original poster's problem, it doesn't really solve the original problem
identified by the error message "The Adobe PDFMaker server cannot be
loaded; please reinstall Adobe PDFMaker."
Jennifer, have you reinstalled PDFMaker, but continue to get the problem?
Did PDFMaker work before, but has stopped working now? What version of
Acrobat are you using? I'm not sure I'll be able to diagnose your problem,
but perhaps with a bit more info someone more knowledgeable can.
At 03:20 PM 4/04/2002 -0800, David Neeley wrote:
>The Acrobat gurus I know (including some from Adobe's
>staff) say NEVER to use "PDFMaker" or "Save as PDF"
>functions. They claim these are erratic and can
>introduce errors.
>
>Instead, they say to print to a PostScript file and
>then use Acrobat Distiller.
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