Missing PDF maker files in MS Office 2010

PDFMaker in Acrobat 8 and 9 are not supported by Office 2010:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/faq/

I had this problem on a Vista PC.
I only required Excel to work. but im sure its a similar process for Word etc.
I was still able to make PDF's with the 'Adobe PDF' printer function.

Click File
Click Options
Click Add-Ins

Select 'Acrobat PDF Maker Office .COM Addin'

From the Dropbox at the bottom select "Excel Addins"
- Click Go
- UN-SELECT Any Acrobat or PDFMaker listing

From the Dropbox at the bottom select "COM Addins"
- Click Go
- Check the box "Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM Addin" IS selected
- If NOT.. Click Add and browse to
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\PDFMaker\Office\PDFMOfficeAddin.dll"
- If your version is NOT 10.0 it will be a different folder ie 7.0 8.0 etc

From the Dropbox at the bottom select "Disabled Items"
- Click Go
- Make sure PDFMaker is NOT disabled

This fix may seem trivial however i spent a long time working on this problem.
I tried different versions
I manually removed Acrobat http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/400/kb400658.php
I updated Office
I played with Macro security settings in Office
I tried different PDF settings in Distiller
All of this did nothing.

Remove it from the Excel Add-in
Leave it in the COM Add-in

I had no problems with Windows 7. Just Vista

I hope this works for someone else too.

I'm getting the Missing PDFMaker Files message now (though I could make PDFs easily last week). I'm using Word 2010 and Acrobat Pro 8.3.1.

If I try to publish inPDF from Word, I get the "This file is in use by another application or user". (It's not.)

If I try to create a PDF of the file from Acrobat Pro, I get the message, "Missing PDFMaker files. Do you want to run the installer in repair mode." I clicked Yes, ran the Installer, nothing changed.

I've just discovered Acrobat is creating the PDF ANYWAY - after telling me it can't. (Hey, this is a BIG improvement.) Still ...

As per USVAR's post, I can't find a reference from Microsoft saying Office 2010 and Acrobat Pro 8/9 are not supported. Can someone provide this?

As per Harty's post, when I follow the directions to add the PDFMOfficeAddin.dll file, Word displays the message "The document template is not valid". (I'm on the Templates tab. There's no "Add-ins" tab, just Templates, XML Schema, XML Expansion Packs, and Linked CSS.) What am I missing?

You need to use an updated version of Acrobat 9.0 or better.

Microsoft has a "Save as PDF" option.

Adobe product operating system compatibility
The fact that the product is not working as expected is an indication that there are compatibility issues and that the product is either working completely or will soon not work at all. Any update to MS Office and cause real issues to any 3rd party product.

Yes, the "Missing PDF Files" on a Dell Inspiron 64-bit running Windows 2010 ...

and yes, I downloaded the 10.1 patch, installed, restarted...

Opened Adobe Acrobat X

tried "create PDF"

got "Missing PDFMaker files"!!!!!!!!!!!!

clicked "run in repair mode"

and the thing started reinstalling again, as it did before, again, again, again. Loopy.

I have wasted this morning trying to thrash through the Adobe jungle, just as I wasted yesterday.

Took me about ten minutes to download, install, and apply Corel PDF Fusion.

Granted Adobe Acrobat X is a more sophisticated program, but Jheesh!!!!

Should I just give up on Adobe then?

Can't convert to PDF | "Missing PDFMaker files" error.Microsoft has seen fit to disable this plug-in by default.