On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:54:00 -0800, awothers
<awothers@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>I use Vista Ultimate with 4GB RAM.
>
>In my former XP machine "Adobe PDF" appeared in the printer list in Word
>2003 and I never had any problem creating PDF files.
>
>On my Vista machine and Word 2007 Adobe PDF does not appear in the printer
>list.
>
>When I try to create a PDF from the Acorbat icon in Word I get the following
>error message:
>"PDFMaker cannot locate the Adobe PDF Printer's priner driver. Please
>re-install Adobe Acrobat 8.0." (note: I did this - did not solve issue)
Adobe Acrobat 8 is NOT the same thing as Adobe Reader. You obviously
had Adobe Acrobat installed on the XP machine.
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>When I contacted Adobe, they got me to the "Print Spooler Properties" dialog
>and under "This service depends on the following system components:" the
>following are listed:
>
>HTTP -> Remote Procedure Call (RPC) -> DCOM Server Process Launcher.
>
>They suggested that I disable the DCOM Server Process Launcher.
>
>I found DCOM Server Process Laucher as follows:
>
>Control Panel->Administrative Tools -> Services. The problem is that the
>drop down list that would allow me to change the Startup type is greyed out.
>
>The Adobe tech support person referred me to their Knowledge Base article
>333221.
>
>It seems to me that there is an issue with Vista and permissions.
>
>Can anyone help.
>
>Thanks, Alan
>
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