You are using an old version of Adobe Acrobat that contains known
vulnerabilities. You should be using version 9
As someone else has stated, there is an add-on for Microsoft Word 2007 that
allows you to create .pdf files from file | save as function.
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"awothers" <awothers@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>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
>
>
>