Save printed pdf default in same location as source document Acrobat 2017

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May 26, 2018
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Hello,

I have the following question for a client where i have Windows 10 64 bit - Office 2016 Pro and Acrobat 2017.

When there is for example a Word document that is located in c:\users\user1\documents\folder1 the document name is example1 now when printing to the adobe acrobat printer it is always printing to the last location of the folder used the last time.

Is there a option so it prints to the same folder where the Word document is located ? So the the path is transferred to the acrobat printer ?

My client is using Onedrive where all the files are located so when a Word document is in a folder on onedrive it would be handy when Creating a PDF document the pdf document should also go in the same folder.

Thanks

Best regards

Didier

Correct answer Rizzy098

My company removed me from OneDrive and it magically started working again, so the problem is 100% OneDrive. Microsoft needs to fix this, it is a productivity killer.

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Kevin29626036judc

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I can see where you are coming from. But when I use the "save as" function in Word, it automatically places the file in the same folder I opened the document from.

Feel free to test. Open 2 word documents from different folders. Tell the first one to "save as" to a different location like your desktop. Tell the second document to "save as"- and see where the automatic location is. Word automatically selects the folder location the second document originated in, not your desktop, right?

With the 2 word documents still open, tell the first document to "Save as Adobe PDF". Tell it to save to your downloads folder. Tell the second Word document to "Save as Adobe PDF". If your system is running like mine, it will want to automatically save to the last place the Adobe plug in was sent, the downloads folder.

Because the 2 functions behave differently, I believe the problem is with the Adobe plug in. Microsoft has it's faults, but my Word document behaves in a helpful manner.

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Jubilant_sharpness7298

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Has anyone found an answer? This is the worst!!! It only recently started happening when we went to onedrive as well. It is so bad for productivity.

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Rizzy098Correct answer

Inspiring

My company removed me from OneDrive and it magically started working again, so the problem is 100% OneDrive. Microsoft needs to fix this, it is a productivity killer.

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Jason32085399jobp

Participant

I am having the exact same problem. I got "Save as PDF" to work a couple of years ago but ever since I've been using OneDrive it now defaults to the last folder I made a PDF, not the folder where the Office document is that I'm converting to PDF. But isn't this a problem with Word, not Adobe?

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Kevin29626036judc

Participant

I can see where you are coming from. But when I use the "save as" function in Word, it automatically places the file in the same folder I opened the document from.

Feel free to test. Open 2 word documents from different folders. Tell the first one to "save as" to a different location like your desktop. Tell the second document to "save as"- and see where the automatic location is. Word automatically selects the folder location the second document originated in, not your desktop, right?

With the 2 word documents still open, tell the first document to "Save as Adobe PDF". Tell it to save to your downloads folder. Tell the second Word document to "Save as Adobe PDF". If your system is running like mine, it will want to automatically save to the last place the Adobe plug in was sent, the downloads folder.

Because the 2 functions behave differently, I believe the problem is with the Adobe plug in. Microsoft has its faults, but my Word document behaves in a helpful manner.

Is it Word not allowing Adobe the fold information like it used to? Is Adobe not looking for the correct information when interacting with Microsoft 360? The great mysteries of life.

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Rizzy098

Inspiring

The "save as" works completely different than the "save as Adobe pdf". The "save as" saves it to the source folder but the "save as Adobe pdf" saves it to the previous folder that you saved a pdf to. This is INCREDIBLY annoying and destroys productivity. This is 100% an Adobe problem, not Microsoft. This also broke when we all switched to One Drive btw.

Dov Isaacs

Legend

The Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance has no way of knowing the source directory of the Word document. It is effectively a print operation, the target location for the PDF file being two hops away from the application that is invoking print.

That having been said, if you are creating PDF from Microsoft Office documents via Acrobat, you should not be printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance. Rather, you should be using the Save as Adobe PDF (PDFMaker) feature provided by Acrobat as a plug-in to Word (as well as Excel and PowerPoint). That feature indeed defaults to the same directory as the source document you are editing. Furthermore, the PDF files generated by Acrobat's PDFMaker feature are of much higher quality and reliability than those produced by “printing” to Adobe PDF.

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)

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Jason26785528hzwp

Participant

I use the "Save as Adobe PDF" option, but I have the same problem. The default "Save as" location is now the last place I saved a pdf and not the location of the MS Word document which I am saving. This used to work fine for me until some recent Office365 upgrades, security changes, or pdf upgrade that broke it. How do I change the default "Save as Adobe PDF" location to the current folder rather than a past folder.