RE: Upgrading Acrobat without messing up Word

Subject: RE: Upgrading Acrobat without messing up Word
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:16:01 -0500

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for the details. As a follow-up, someone on another list stated
that, "the general advice with Acrobat is to make sure the previous
version is completely uninstalled" before upgrading. That sounds kind of
counter-intuitive -- any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan West
> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 8:21 AM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Upgrading Acrobat without messing up Word
>
> The key point is that Acrobat 8 doesn't use
> PDFMaker.dot. the PDFMaker functionality is by means
> of a COM add-in. So do an install, and then make sure
> that PDFMaker.dot is no longer loaded, and then close
> Word, rename Normal.dot and restart Word, knowing that
> old changes to it made by Acrobat 6 are no longer
> present.
>

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