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_Andy_Bishop_
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February 8, 2008
Question

Missing pdf maker files for Office 2007

  • February 8, 2008
  • 11 replies
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After several months working, my MS Office 2007 applications stopped giving me the ability to create pdf files in Acrobat Pro 8.1.2. I only received the error PDFMaker Files not found.

I solved this by:
* Open Office Application (i.e. Word)
* Click the Office Icon in upper left corner
* Click the "Word Options" button bottom right
* Select Add-ins from the left column
* (I scrolled through the box and noticed that for some reason the PDFMaker Com Office Add-in was disabled)
* I went to the Manage drop down box at the bottom and selected "Disabled Items" and hit Go
* Enabled the PDFMaker Add-in
* Restarted

Then everything was back to normal! Hope that helps if someone comes to the same problem.
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    Devil and drexel5E44
    New Participant
    September 30, 2020

    Just click on "print" one of the printer options says something liker "microsoft to pdf . . " set that as the printer, click " ok" it then asks where you want to save it.  Problem solved without any downloads.  Youre welcome

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    Dhilipkumar
    New Participant
    September 24, 2019

    I have adobe acrobot 9 MS office 2007, I couldnt able to convert my word file as PDF. I tried what you mentioned above. I found nothing is disabled. So how could i solve this issue

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    thebourneblogger
    New Participant
    June 20, 2011

    Nice work... Easy to do even without screen shots as a visual guide...

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    Henry Weinman
    New Participant
    June 7, 2011

    Thanks a lot.  Worked for me!  Would have never figured it out.

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    Garthmyl
    New Participant
    January 5, 2011

    I followed those instructions which were actually put out by Adobe - but found that my pdf maker files were NOT disabled yet I still get the error message 'missing PDFmaker files' with my Acrobat 8 on Office 7 - can anyone suggest any other solution please?

    I did find a note that said that pdfmaker files are not available in anything above Acrobat 8.1 for office 7 by the way.

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    Bill12
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2011

    That is strange. I have the most current update of AA8 (8.2.5 as I recall) and it works fine with OFFICE 2007.

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    UL_IDES
    New Participant
    January 3, 2011

    Nice! Worked like a charm - thank you!

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    astarxy
    Participating Frequently
    January 3, 2011

    ... and in case anyone still can't use the pdfMaker due to missing Add-in, especially i think in office 2010, here's a trick... you need to copy PDFMOfficeAddin.dll to appropriate folder...

    brg

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    newbieking
    Known Participant
    September 19, 2011

    astarxy wrote:

    ... and in case anyone still can't use the pdfMaker due to missing Add-in, especially i think in office 2010, here's a trick... you need to copy PDFMOfficeAddin.dll to appropriate folder...

    brg

    I was able to located the PDFMOfficeAddin.dll file, but where do I copy/paste the file to?

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    Anonymous
    August 25, 2010

    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

    Worked a treat!

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    Anonymous
    February 2, 2010

    I just want to say thanks so much for the expert help. I have not been able to create pdf docs in a long time. everytime I tried to update it would crash my computer. Windows Vista and Acrobat compatibility issues. I finally have updated to 8.2.0 and still could not create pdf docs until reading your post.

    Again thanks

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    _Jessica_Schiff_
    New Participant
    March 25, 2008
    I also receive this message and cannot create PDF's from Word and Publisher in particular. But have been successful with Visio. I'm running Microsoft Office 2007 and Acrobat 7, which is part of my Adobe CS2 Suite. I've enabled my add-ins and added everything to the registry. I've heard that because I'm running the Suite, I can't remove just the Acrobat to upgrade. But I'm not sure. I also was told to uninstall and reinstall Office 2007, but that seems like a big ordeal. Any help?
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    _Mike_Clarkson_
    New Participant
    February 29, 2008
    I have just recently installed and upgraded adobe acrobat 8, and for some reason i can not save, convert or create pdfs from office formats. the addin is already installed and enabled, but when i try to convert a word (docx) file, i get the "Missing PDFMaker files -- Do you want to run the installer in repair mode?" [which i have done and it does not fix it] error and i have no options of save as pdf or print to a pdf from within word.

    help?
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