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5.0 Distiller - Issues with Word 2000

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fentocy

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Sep 17, 2002
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I have two questions really: (1) When I click on the Adobe Acrobat button in MS Word 2000 to create a PDF file, it creates the file as "Untitled". Previous to the upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0, it defaulted to the original file name/location, but with .pdf as the extension. How do I set the default? (2) Adobe forces me to save my Word document before it will create the PDF file. I don't want to do that. Any ideas where that setting is?

Thanks!
 
To answer your second question first - I am fairly sure a file has to be saved before being converted to PDF. I don't think there is any way round this. Why wouldn't you want to save it anyway - what if you make the PDF and then find you need to make a change?

First question - I always use the two step process when converting from Word to PDF i.e. I 'print to file' using Distiller as my printer - and it always asks about name/location - and then open the file in Distiller (you will have to change the file type it is looking for to 'all files' as Word makes a postscript file with the extension .PRN, not .PS) and then distill to PDF. I prefer to do it that way as I can be sure that the job settings are appropriate for the PDF being created (not possible to check this if using the direct method).
 
With my job, we have documents that are created and updated all the time for our clients. At the end of the process, we create a PDF that includes the color letterhead and signature. We are not allowed to save the document that way. Previous to this upgrade, we were never asked to save before creating the PDF.
 
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