Converting a Word File or Two to PDF

[EliseFreedman]

Hi there

My colleague has a problem with his computer. He is using Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Office 2003 and Windows XP. He is trying to convert several files from Word Format to PDF Fromat. While in windows explorer, he highlights the word files, right clicks and chooses "Convert to Adobe PDF." It appears to go through the process of creating the PDF file. However, when he checks the directory, no pdf file has been created. Can anyone think of any reason why this would be? No error messages are displayed. I attempted to get to the bottom of the problem by taking the first document and pasting the contents page by page into a new document, PDF'ing it at the end of each page. It PDF'd the first 4 pages successfully, I pasted in the 5th page, put it on to PDF and left the machine for a couple of minutes. When i came back, the pdf file i had previously created had completely vanished.

I ended up having to use an online PDF Facility to create the required files. I would love to get to the route of the problem to satisfy my own curiosity

 

[genomon]

First, check the default directory for pdf - it may be writing files to another folder. As for the vanishing pdf, any possibility it was overwritten by another file with the same name? We're using Acro7 here, I still miss 5 - way easier to figure out...

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

 

[TonyJollans]

I think this is what happens when you have an expired trial version of Acrobat.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[rkdcomp]

When you install Acrobat it also installed a ACROBAT PRINTER which should be an available PRINTER.

Open the Word document and then PRINT to the Acrobat printer.

Works everytime for me.

If it printed then it should also open Acrobat and you can view the new PDF document.

Richard in Tulsa