Does anyone have any suggestions for how to make Acrobat 6 and Vista play nice together? Whenever I try to create a pdf document from a word file, it prints to acrobat, then stalls and never finishes the document.
Joy
Vista doesn't like Acrobat 6
2007-05-14 16:19:35
2007-05-25 04:10:03
#1
I am having exactly the same problem. Adobe 6 Professional does everything I need, and I don't want to spend time learning a new package when I don't need it. When I try to create a PDF from Word / PowerPoint, it hangs up.
2007-06-01 13:13:58
#2
Acrobat 8.1 is Vista compliant - when released as an update ...
Jon
Jon
2007-06-18 07:10:41
#3
It should be noted that the ability to automatically add links or bookmarks for Word structures (Table of Contents, Index, Headings, etc) directly from the MS Office document is lost. For documents without links to other documents or linking to internal sections this is not a problem, but if you have a large number of links or have to perform frequent updates of a linked document, the cost of upgrading to version 8.1 may well be worth the cost of the upgrade.
2009-05-18 01:37:36
#4
I know this is an old thread, but pepople will be coming across this issue all the time, as they need a new laptop and find their operating software choices limited. I found one useful workaround not mentioned here.
Most people who use full versions of Acrobat just want to make pdf files. The open source PdfCreator from Sourceforge does thios perfectly well in Vista, and it's free (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/). You just print to a pdf as you would in Acrobat. There are very limited options (as to resolution or whatever), but for the vast majority of general office and file sharing uses it's perfectly adequate.
Acrobat 6 will run on Vista, but you can't print to a pdf file. As noted above, it will run and open/save existing pdf or ps documents if you really need any of it's extra features. In my experience, if you install Acrobat 6, it won't open a pdf in a web browser. Install Acrobat Reader 9 after you install Acrobat 6 and IE8 uses that OK.
So, no need to give Adobe large sums of money for new software you don't need.
Most people who use full versions of Acrobat just want to make pdf files. The open source PdfCreator from Sourceforge does thios perfectly well in Vista, and it's free (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/). You just print to a pdf as you would in Acrobat. There are very limited options (as to resolution or whatever), but for the vast majority of general office and file sharing uses it's perfectly adequate.
Acrobat 6 will run on Vista, but you can't print to a pdf file. As noted above, it will run and open/save existing pdf or ps documents if you really need any of it's extra features. In my experience, if you install Acrobat 6, it won't open a pdf in a web browser. Install Acrobat Reader 9 after you install Acrobat 6 and IE8 uses that OK.
So, no need to give Adobe large sums of money for new software you don't need.
2009-05-18 06:30:57
#5
Acrobat 6 can marginally run on Vista, but the PDF Maker macros will not run with Office 2007 and there are other problems with obtaining full functionality. There are a number of problems running the Acrobat macros for conversing of Office documents, as Microsoft has change the scripting and macro security in Office 2007. Printing to the Acrobat printer or any PDF print driver will cause one to use most of the interactivity of a PDF Maker converted document. The one exception will be the spelled out web links but embedded links will be broken.
One can also use Open Office to convert MS Office documents to PDFsand if you have a form the form fields will carry over into the PDF, but you may need to perform some editing to add special JavaScript actions. But the combo boxes, list boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, text boxes will all carry over.
One can also use Open Office to convert MS Office documents to PDFsand if you have a form the form fields will carry over into the PDF, but you may need to perform some editing to add special JavaScript actions. But the combo boxes, list boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, text boxes will all carry over.