Comments on: PDFMaker is unavailable in a Microsoft Office 2007 Application after installing Acrobat 8.1

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:23:42 +0000

Hi,
I found the solution. Note I use Adobe Pro 9 on XP with Word 2007.
Just to say that as soon as I posted my message above, I went back to Word 2007. Simply follow the instructions as per No 1 above. That is:
Step 1. Open Word 2007.
2. Click on the Word icon. Go to the bottom of the window that is opened.
3. Click Word Option. In the window opened, click “add-in”.
4. On the body of this window, choose the Adobe sting that appear under “disabled application add-in”.
5. This is the crucial part, go -to the bottom of this window, instead of COM ADD-INS, Choose DISABLED ITEMS.
6. Click OK.
7. You will get a message to restart your word or computer.
Note, at stage 6, the Adobe string ill be moved to the inactive part of the window that you opened in (3).
However, by the time you restart your computer, the error would have been fixed and the Adobe PDF becomes active. Mine did.
Hope this helps.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:41:05 +0000

Hi,
This is very frustrating. I have tried to convert my work into Acrobat PDF. My business partner will not accept any other PDF as I have to embed the fonts using Adobe. Yet, I have tried, within my technical limitation, the solutions offered here. I still could not convert to Adobe PDF. Same old message: “Missing PDFMaker”. Even when I have carried the instructions on Word 2007, it will revert to the old state as if I did not enable the COM.

I need your help please.

By: Bob Arnett

Bob Arnett — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:13:30 +0000

Just a follow-up: I found that upgrading to Acrobat 8.1 solved the issue. The Acrobat tab appeared.

By: Cherieston

Cherieston — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:13:53 +0000

done and tried all solution; I even tried what number six says and this is what i get: loadBehavior: reg_dword: 0×00000003 (3)

please could I have the reg hack.

thanks

By: David Ingersoll

David Ingersoll — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:23:11 +0000

Tim,

Solution #1 quickly save us alot of grief. For unknown reason Plugin was disabled on several Vista Ent x64 workstations this month.

Thanks - David

By: Tushar

Tushar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:15:50 +0000

I’ve tried all the 5 methods given above but with no effect. The add-ins etc are active, the pdf buttons show. On trying to convert it asks for file to save to and then suddenly ” missing pdfmaker file…..”. I can do my work using the MS tool to save as PDF but would have preferred the direct way.

Could you kindly send me the reg hack that you said will fix the problem.

Thank You.

Tushar

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:35:11 +0000

I am having the same problem several people above mention. The PDFmaker starts running and after about 10% fails and give the messgae “an unexpected error has occurred). Running Office 2007 and Adobe 8.1 Works fine in outlook and pdfmaker right click on file works with everything except word.

By: Wade

Wade — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:18:17 +0000

I am here expressing my deep gratefulness for Martin to help me out the troubled water–this so frustrating problem with my PDF maker! Starting Office as administrator, removing the add-in and then adding it in again worked!

By: Roy Francis

Roy Francis — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:10:50 +0000

Hi Tim,

I have tried all your solutions as well as Martin’s (run word as admin then try fix) but am still getting the same error - “The Connected state of the Office Add-ins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed”

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Roy

By: alex kagdis

alex kagdis — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:21:04 +0000

I just wanted to thank Martin for his fix for this frustrating problem. Starting Office as administrator, removing the add-in and then adding it in again worked! The Acrobat tab appeared and converted my Word document like a charm. That is, solution #3 worked for me also.

-Alex