How do I turn off the File Path which Adobe inserts at the foot of each page?

Change Acrobat's Web Capture settings, "File > Create PDF => From web page ...", to not 'Add header and footer to each new page'.

George, That it is extremely good of you, I spent ages surfing the net trying to find that answer. Here is a really big questions which I wonder if you may know the answer to the following:-

As part of our business, we sometimes need to convert multiple files (All the micorsoft family of Word, Excel Powerpoint) and also JPG's etc.
Lately Adobe 9 which we use the 'Batch Processing' feature of has just stopped working preoperly. It just used to plough through a folder structure and convert files where they nested in the folder and placed the converted PDF's in the same folder (never ever did it actually replace the original file as the option states, but that's no problem).
The real enormaous problem is that now Adobe ask us to specify the location it should save each and every file which it will convert. Some of the conversions that we do are in the 100's and as you can imagine this has become an enormous issue and extremely time consuming. I have tried calling Adobe for help, but apart from them saying that Adobe 9 is no longer supported. We have some Macs in the office which run Adobe X and these do Exactly the same thing.
You would be an absolute life saver if you knew what the issue is, we are pulling our hair out!

I remember a few months ago, Microsoft realeased an update which basically disabled the Adobe plugin within MS documents and we had to go to File>Options>Add-Ins>Disabled Application Add-Ins Adobe was under here and we then just had to re-enable this. There is no mention of Adobe in this section at all anymore - if that helps at all?Richard

You may have selected the option or an update reset the option to prompt for the out put file name. This could be with the Adobe PDF printer, Distiller, or in the PDF Conversion macro.

Thanks George,

Sorry for the delay in replying. I have checked my Distiller Preferences and 'Output Options>Ask for PDF file destination' is unticked.
As for the Adobe PDF printer, the only setting I can see which may make a difference is 'Adobe PDF Output Folder' which mine is set 'Documents\*.pdf' which I assume is correct as the alternative of 'Prompt for Adobe PDF file name' I imagine would make life even worse?

I am afraid that I do not know how to check the PDF conversion Marco, if you can sehd some light on that I would appreciate it?

In your valued view and opinion, what should the behaviour of Adobe be like when converting mulitple types of Microsoft files in a folder structure with sub folders etc. Should it convert ALL types and replace them with the PDF's or is this just the Holy Grail which nobody has ever achieved?

Regards,


Richard

If you're using Acrobat X Actions (which replace Batch Processing) to convert non-PDF files to PDF files, you don't go anywhere near Distiller's settings:

File > Action Wizard > Create New Action
Start with = Ask when Action is Started
Save to = The Same Folder Selected at Start

if required open Additional Settings (the button next to the Save To field) and specify prefixes etc. for the name.

Save the Action - you don't need to add any steps, you're only using the Save As feature to convert to PDF.
Run the Action from the file menu or the Tools Pane, and pick your folder.

Unfortunatley I am using Acrobat 9, I am trying to get our systems updated so that we are all running off the same software - any advice with regards to v.9?

It's the same in Acrobat 9 (Pro). Create a "blank" batch process (Advanced - Document Processing - Batch Processing...), and it will convert all files to PDF.