On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:54:00 -0800, awothers 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)
>
> 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
You could always load up openoffice.org - it has had the ability to create
pdf files for some years.