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Missing Acrobat Elements PDF Convertor Toolbar plugins in Office 2007

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2008-01-21 09:23:26
TallerAxMan
Registered: Jan 21 2008
Posts: 3

I hope this is a dumb question. I am trying to find a way to restore the Acrobat Elements pdf conversion toolbar icons that appear to disappear when I upgrade an MS Office installation in Windows XP SP2 from Office 2003 to Office 2007. I have recently been upgrading the MS Office installations on the computers in our office and have noticed that the pdf conversion toolbar icons seem to disappear when this process takes place. It is not disabled and the converter still shows up on the active plugin list but I can't for the life of me find the toolbar icons on any of the ribbons. Am I missing the obvious here?

T

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.1.1, Windows
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2008-01-21 10:53:35
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dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi --

There isn't a program called Acrobat Elements, but I think I know what you mean.

You need to install Acrobat 8.1 in order to have the plugins for Office 2007. Once you download and install the upgrade, choose Help > Repair Acrobat Installation in the Acrobat menu to have the program install the plugins in your Office 2007 products.donna.

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2008-01-22 07:02:27
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TallerAxMan
Registered: Jan 21 2008
Posts: 3
Actually, there is an application called Adobe Acrobat Elements and it is just what it says, an element of Adobe Acrobat. It is basically just the pdf conversion part of the Acrobat application that runs as a stand-alone converter or through the plug-in icons on the toolbars of the MS Office applications. The version we use is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Elements and the toolbar icons that automatically run the doc (or excel or ppt) conversion to pdf disappear from the Office toolbars when the Office installation gets pgraded. The Elements application itself does not have a toolbar menu system but rather a Windows Explorer view that allows the user to selct a particular file to convert to pdf, hence no "help" option from which to run the usual repair utility. Still can't get the Office toolbar icons back in the Office 2007 installations.
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2009-02-13 13:41:24
#3
paul84043
Registered: Feb 13 2009
Posts: 1
I'm having the exact same problem, Using Office 2003, Windows 2000 (it's an older production system) and Adobe Acrobat Elements 7.0.
The Icon's were actually there and functioning for about a month, then one day, I don't know what happened, but the icons vanished and I cannot for the life of me find the Add-in, it's just gone...
I've reinstalled Acrobat Elements, but the add ins just aren't there.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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2009-02-13 19:34:08
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
fwiw -

Adobe, in TechNote 333670, wrote:
Acrobat 7 and prior do not support Office 2007 nor Office 2007 files.Acrobat 8.1 supports Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Windows x64 platforms. For more information about the Acrobat 8.1 update, see TechNote kb401730.

Note: There is a known issue with 64-bit versions of Windows which causes the Adobe PDF Printer to not work correctly. Microsoft has released a Hot Fix for this issue which is documented in article 930627 in the Microsoft Help and Support site at http://support.microsoft.com. This Hot Fix is also included in the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) update. Adobe has tested and will support the Adobe PDF Printer with this Hot Fix installed.
Note also that Adobe Elements was exclusive to the "7" series releases of Reader / Acrobat.
[url]http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acro7_matrix.pdf[/url]
It is not shown as part of the "8" series release.
[url]http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrobat8_matrix.pdf[/url]
Nor with the "9" series release.
[url]http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html[/url]

Additionally, Adobe announced in 2007 that there'd be no more develoment of Acrobat Elements
and that it would no longer provide the product.
Acrobat Elements user can upgrade to Acrobat Standard.
If users had an active Acrobat Elements upgrade plan on June 2, 2008 they got Acrobat 9 Standard.
Details are at: [url]http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/acrobatel.html[/url]

Looks like Acrobat Elements is in the "bone yard".
I'd not expect it to be able to be functional in contemporay OS / Office Suites environments.

Be well...

Be well...

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