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Anonymous
September 28, 2017
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PDFMaker Addin disabled in Word 2016

  • September 28, 2017
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Hi Everyone,

We have noticed that the "Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM Addin" is getting disabled by Office if you have "Require Application Add-ins to be signed by a Trusted Publisher". I believe this is due to the fact that the Certificate used to sign the DLL expired on the 08/05/2017.

Is there any way to fix this as its affecting a large number of users.

Kindest Regards,

Chris

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AnandSri
AnandSri
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September 29, 2017

Hi Chrisg,

Please refer to the following links:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/pdfmaker-unavailable-office-2007-office.html

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Missing-Adobe-Acrobat-tab-even-when-add-in-is-enabled-in-Office-2016-apps-9a723b83-3ef5-4dd0-9701-269d888e7396

Re: Unable to find Adobe PDF resource files on Acrobat XI Pro.  Link: https://forums.adobe.com/message/4781497#4781497

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Anand Sri.

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Eddie78701
Known Participant
August 10, 2018

Good message thread!  Sadly the links don't answer the question if you are working in a corporate/gov't environment with group policy for security.  Did you get a solution for how to get the proper certificate to add to the Trusted Publishers so that the add-in can be enabled (and indeed all add-ins that are properly signed by Adobe will just work)?

GPO
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Excel 2016\Excel Options\Security\Trust Center\Require That Application Add-ins are Signed by Trusted Publisher

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