Create Adobe PDF monitor

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Swot

I recently upgraded Office 97 to Office 2003 (standard). When I open Word
2003, I get the following error message: "Create Adobe PDF monitor cannot
be found. Please reinstall Create Adobe PDF".

Looking at the help information for Word, it made reference to PDFMaker, and
told me to search for PDFMaker.dot on my computer, and rename it. Only
problem, I do not have a file named PDFMaker.DOT on my computer (searched
the entire hard drive).

Also, I never directly created PDF files from my old version of Word. And,
I do not own any Adobe products (other than the free reader you can download
from their site .... I have version 6.0 of that).

So, how do I get rid of this error message. It does not seem to interfere
with processing once I click OK on the message. But, it is annoying that it
keeps appearing.
 
C

Craig

Swot,

Greetings. I am currently dealing with this same problem myself. I
have that same error message showing up on Word 97 and on Word 2000,
and I don't have Acrobat installed; only the Adobe Reader and
Photoshop. I even had a PDFWriter printer installed. I deleted it,
but the window didn't go away. You may want to see if you have that
printer installed as well.

First, don't bother with the adobe forum because I have received no
help from Adobe or the Adobe newsgroup; they have little or no
follow-up on the topic. Right or wrong, I am finding all sorts of
good discussions and ideas outside of those places. I mainly did a
search for "create pdf error" in the microsoft.public.word newsgroup
and a bunch came up. Second, I saw a couple of suggestions that look
like they could work for me, and when I get a chance (in a day or two)
to implement them, I will let you know of my success/failure.

One of the suggestions was to delete a PDF.DOT file, so I'm just going
to search for P*.DOT files and if any of them look like they are
PDF-related I am going to chuck them; maybe there's more than one
PDF-related template out there. Another suggestion I saw stated this:

It's not Adobe PageMaker that this refers to but Adobe Acrobat. If you
don't have Acrobat, then you need to uninstall any add-ins in Word's
Startup folder (or the Office Startup folder) that contains PDF in the
name. An early version of Acrobat Reader evidently contained an add-in
to create PDFs from Word documents, but this add-in doesn't work in
later versions of Word.

I've never uninstalled any Add-ins before, but if you go to the Office
Startup folder, it looks like that would be the place such add-ins
would be located. Like I said, I will give these two ideas a try and
I'll let you know of the outcome. It will be a few days, so please be
patient. Have a great day, and I'll post something in a day or two.

Craig
 
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Craig

Swot,

I apologize for taking so long to relay my findings. Untimely things
happened and I just got the opportunity to work on this problem. All
I did was search for *.dot, found two files that started with 'PDF',
deleted them, and the error is gone. I hope this will work for you.
 
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