Help please.
Thanks,
Michael Asfaw
Well, you could blow out it's kneecaps. That would disable it permanently. Or, you could just remove PDFMaker
We should start an Computer Exchange program on eBay. I believe we have just about an equal amount of people who have the tool bar and don't wnat it as we do people who don't have it or can't keep it but do want it.
For the errors I get: %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% %%[ Warning: Univers not found, using Font Substitution. Font cannot be embedded.]%% UniversBold not found, using Courier. %%[Page: 1]%% UniversItalic not found, using Courier. %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%%
I have no idea what xshow is. Univers is a working Windows font, but it doesn't show in Acrobat as available.
On a coworker's PC, the toolbar won't show, isn't in the toolbar list, but Distiller will make the pdf just fine.
Very frustrating and I'm approaching a deadline.
Aandi Inston
It definitely is a Acrobat bug. Does anyone from Adobe respond in this forum?
If I call Adobe tech support, will they charge me for reporting a bug?
If I was the Adobe tech you called to report this as a bug, I would certainly charge you a "stupidity tax"!
(2) Rather than as "smart-alecky remarks", you are better off considering Tom's comments as "wry humor".
(3) If you don't want the Acrobat icons to take up an entire toolbar row, just drag them to one of the other toolbars.
--Mike Nitabach
Funny, I have two of the buttons doing the same thing.
j
A bug is something the softawre deosn't do that it is designed to do, or, inversely, that it does, but is not designed to do. If you installed PDFMaker, you get the buttons. The software is designed to give you these buttons, therefore, having these buttons, and not being able to get rid of them, is not a bug. And if you refer to this as a bug, then it is a stupid reference, and you deserve to get taxed! And if you were my manager, you wouldn't have to fire me, because I refuse to work for stupid people, so I would quit!
Simple solution: Don't install PDFMaker. No buttons!
Ana
Peter Pilon
First, let me point out that I am using Office XP with Acrobat v5.0.5. (I did not notice this problem with v5.0.1 and I suspect this problem does not occur in Office 2000.)
I am aware that I can show or hide toolbars in Word through the View->Toolbar menu. Unfortunately, this option does not work correctly with the Acrobat toolbar and my reason for posting to this forum. Each time I start Word, the Acrobat toolbar pops up again. NOTE that I can hide any of the Word toolbars including other third party toolbars, and they do not pop up when I restart Word.
I am also aware that I can remove the PDFMaker.dot file from the Word startup folder, which is what I ended up doing. I moved this file to the Word template folder where I can manually activate it when needed. NOTE that this action removes the Acrobat “menu” in addition to the toolbar until manually activated.
I write VBA code for a living, and have built templates (*.dot files) that produce toolbars in Word. They all behave correctly. This is why I strongly believe there is a bug in the PDFMaker.dot file or some compatibility problem with Word XP. If this file was not protected (locked), I probably could fix it.
On the other hand if Adobe designed this template to behave this way, Tom you are absolutely right. It is not a bug, it is an irritating feature. :-)
Tax recinded. The check's in the mail!
Excuse me for interrupting, but I think you mean that you want PDFWriter but
not PDFMaker. Have you tried uninstalling everything, then reinstalling,
custom and choosing PDFWriter but NOT PDFMaker? A custom install is the
only way you'll get PDFWriter.
> My system as no PDFMaker.dot anywhere.
If that's correct, you should be able to hold down ALT and drag the unwanted
menu item off the menu bar, then choose View, Toolbars, Customize and delete
the PDFmaker toolbar. It should stay gone when you restart Word. If it
reappears, then you do have PDFMaker.dot since this is the gadget that
creates the toolbar at Word startup. Try searching for PDFMaker*.* instead.
BillyG's idiot defaults for Win Explorer may be confusing the issue.
Wasn't shooting from the hip, I was giving my solution. Sorry it wasn't sufficient enough for you.
This is a major source of annoyance for myself as well as this should be just a simple matter of telling it not to display without having to do this every single time I start word.
If I tell word not to display certain taskbars then the next time I start word it saves my settings - to my mind this is a bug and Adode should fix the thing. Resorting to an excuse that 'well you should have choosen the custom option on install' is not an excuse for bad programming.
Kevin Feenan
in...@knomaze.com
You must be very easily annoyed.
Have you tried dragging the Acrobat buttons to one of your existing Word toolbar rows? This way, they don't take up an entire row of screen real estate. When I do this, Word remembers the new location from session to session, so you should only need to do this once.
-Mike Nitabach