Office 2010 : PDF Maker Pane is missing in ribbon

[Laurent_BLONDEL__FR_-upgFvE]

Hi,

After upgrading from MICROSOFT Office 2007 to 2010, I notice that PDF Maker is missing in Office Ribbon.

I tried Repairing & Reinstalling ADOBE Acrobat 9.0 (+ Update to 9.3.2) but still the same problem.

Another try :

Fresh install of Windows XP SP3 + Office 2010 Pro + Acrobat 9.0 + Acrobat Update to 9.2.0 + Acrobat Update to 9.3.2

Same Problem

COM Addin is active but PDF Maker Pane is missing in Office 2010 Ribbon.

I tried soluce in article 330984 (kb) but without success.

... so is Acrobat PDF Maker Addin is compatible with Office 2010 Pro (Word, Excel, ...) ?

Is there a fix or should I wait next patch from ADOBE ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[s?????]

Am so frastrated with the way my PDF Maker behaves with Office 2010, whenever I try to generate a PDF, the program crashes and advises me to get an upgrade of the plugin, however it is no where to be found on the adobe site. Am currently using CS4 extended edition. Any help is highly welcome

Charles Isabirye

[Bill12]

Surprised you got PDF Maker to work with OFFICE 2010, you are the first one I have heard being successful. As for the update, that is the update to Acrobat you are probably looking for. You can do that from the help menu in Acrobat or go to the Adobe site at downloads>updates>Acrobat-Windows and download all the updates after your current version. Then install them in order (they are not cummulative.

[adcdef]

I really do not understand all the jabber about " Office 2010 not have a PDF Maker Pane missing...". As I observed, most of the persons in the forums already have Adobe Acrobat ver ...xx. installed on their computers. To make a pdf document all they have to do is print the Office 2010 document using the adobe pdf printer installed by default when Adobe Acrobat is installed. Just go to File > Print & select the Adobe Printer to make a pdf document.

For those who do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on their computer, they can download a number of free pdf printers available on the net eg. Nitropdf, Foxit pdf etc. or just google it with the key words 'free pdf printer', and I am sure you will find more. They are usually small files , take up very little disk space & install easily. Once installed you have to follow the very same procedure as mentioned above. Its a shame that Adobe does not offer a free pdf printer.

With the Office 2010 already a bloated application why bloat it more by adding the 'convert to pdf' functionality, when the solution is already staring you in the face ?

Further, The latest Adobe Acrobat Version 9.x.x has become a nearly 2,677 MB monster (Result from Add/Remove Programs Panel  - Win XP SP3 - 32 Bit, Pent 4,  2.3 GHz). A burden on the machine & the user alike.

Cheerio & Bye to all..

Promod Sharma

[Bill12]

The reason folks want the PDF Maker (at least those that know what they are doing and don't just click buttons) is to enable to transfer of bookmarks and links from WORD to Acrobat. This is a major chore and to have to add them back in with Acrobat when they could have been transferred automatically with PDF Maker is the real issue. However, it may never become available with AA9 and the print to the Adobe PDF printer OR using the WORD save as PDF are the two options available with OFFICE 2010.

[adcdef]

@Bill@VT

"(at least those that know what they are doing and don't just click buttons)" - Your Quote. I will try answering in the same vein.

At least those do not keep up with the updates of their software & know what they are scribbling and don't just write in the forums without checking, should know that the latest update of Adobe Acrobat (9.3.4) did bring back the beloved pdf Panel in MS Office 2010..,( available in the 'ADD In' TAB - The last one - towards the right).

Of course it is not available in the File > Save as

Regards & sorry for the barb (if it hurt), but I just couldn't help it.

Promod Sharma

[gkaiseril]

One can alway use OpenOffice.org Office and not only get the bookmarks and structures, but if a form is created in OOO Writer, the form fields including the combo and drop down boxes will be created as part of the PDF and one would not need to run the form Wizard (or Idiot) and edit the form fields.

There is just so much more in a electronic version of a document than a printed piece of paper or a plain flat electronic piece of paper.

[Bill12]

No problem. I was probably tired and as I remember I almost left it out. Sorry about the point, but the question has been asked so many times. I was not aware that AA9.3.4 that just came out may have resolved the issue. I thought is was just a security update. I have refused to install OFFICE 2010 after one of my students installed it, evaluated it and concluded it was junk (sort of his words). He particularly thought that some of the changes from OFFICE 2007 for packages other than WORD were a major step backwards. He went back to OFFICE 2007 that he has liked. I still prefer OFFICE 2003, though I will admit I do not use OFFICE that much.

[Guest]

@Pramod Sarma

I've updated my Acrobat to 9.3.4, rebooted my system, I see the Add-in under Options> Add-ins>  Active Application Add-ins and can choose it under COM Add-Ins.  BUT  it does NOT show up in the Menu Bar of the Program Word, Excel, etc.  No Tab, No nothing.  Its still doesn't work.

Does anyone have a trick to reactivate it somehow?

AND by the way,  YOU CAN select Save-As and Select PDF and it works JUST fine!  I just did it.

Also, as fix for all of you that say we are whining about not having the PDF maker "QUICK" links in the menu-bar, YES you can click File>Print and choose PDF to print to as well.

It would just be nice to have a ONE-CLICK option back.

Thanks!

SO, to RECAP... you can do the Two or Three Click options of PRINT and choose PDF or you can do SAVE-AS and choose PDF.... BUT again it would be nice to have a working ONE Click option.  Thank you again

[Laurent_BLONDEL__FR_]

@Motch66

Same things even with update 9.3.4 (no PDF Maker Pane).

[gkaiseril]

Adobe has said it will be in Acrobat 10/X. So until that product is released, I would expect the you will not have the PDF Maker from Acrobat in Office 2010 until you update to Acrobat 10/X.

[Guest]

All this fuss over one vs. two or three clicks to create a PDF document from Office 2010? IMHO, this certainly is another example of "full of sound and and fury, signifying nothing!" One would think that to wait for Acrobat 10 to come out to get a function that you can invoke with one click is not such a big deal after all.

Ken Friedman

[Guest]

@Ken and @who-ever cares....

As someone else mentioned way back, WHY do I have to shell out more cash to upgrade to the latest and greatest when this is a functionallity that should already work in the current version.  It was already there, come out with a simple update that corrects the problem@!!!!  I paid enough cash for the current version I have and I don't have money to keep on upgrading!

Thanks!

PS.  for the amount of money we pay for thier software it would be nice to have some decent customer care and tech support!  .... think someone is getting rich!?!

[gkaiseril]

There are a large number of features that using the PDF Maker provides that are not available through printing to a printer driver to create the electric equivalent of paper or Microsoft's concept of how a document should appear as a PDF. And those features have to deal with optimization, embedding fonts, and security. Fortunately most of these can be done but it does change one's work flow.

If you think you paid a lot for software that can not do the job you want, buy a pro-level digital SLR body for $7,000 U.S. and another $3,000.00 US for a lens for that body and then not be able to process the best image format from the camera for 3 months using software that cost $999.00 US. Even the manufacturer of the camera could not get the necessary software out in a timely manner. Fortunately, with some computer skills one could work around this issue, but only in a limited manner by raw editing the image file and changing the camera model ID.

[txt_xtra]

"At least those do not keep up with the updates of their software & know what they are scribbling and don't just write in the forums without checking, should know that  the latest update of Adobe Acrobat (9.3.4) did bring back the beloved  pdf Panel in MS Office 2010..,( available in the 'ADD In' TAB - The last  one - towards the right"

As probably already pointed out, this does not address the issue one bit. YOU are the one who doesnt know what the f they are talking about. I am at version 9.4.1 right now of adobe. The com plugin appears in the list under options -> addins, but obviously it doesnt load. Why dont you do some research yourself before spouting off on the fourms.

"All this fuss over one vs. two or three clicks to create a PDF document from Office 2010?"

f you buddy! you clearly dont write technical documentation with links. Even if you used a table of contents you would miss this functionality. It makes PDF's into CLICKABLE pdfs. You want to explain to user after user that they can no longer click on links in PDF manuals and now need to type out the URL manually BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cant do inline links, say to an appendix or other section. pure crap.

Just more bs from adobe that everyone has to put up with. Of course they wont fix their old product! how would they ever generate any revenue then? its not like they are innovating!!!

[id2nv2nj2ca]

Amen.  Couldn't have said it better myself.  I used to be "soured" towards Apple for not allowing Flash on the iPhone, but this situation is starting to change my impression of that.

[gkaiseril]

Adobe has now released Acrobat X and there

is an upgrade path from Acrobat 8 & 9.

This is a User 2 User forum and only very limited input from Adobe employees.

[id2nv2nj2ca]

Adobe has now released Acrobat X and there

is an upgrade path from Acrobat 8 & 9.

This is a User 2 User forum and only very limited input from Adobe employees.

Thank you for the information, but I am pretty much illiterate when it comes to computers and software, so I have to ask what that means?  My guess is that it means an added expense on top of the hundreds of dollars that 9 Pro cost me.  If I am wrong, can you please tell me how to upgrade so the PDF creator will work?  Thanks again for the input.  Have a great week.

[gkaiseril]

I am not an Adobe employee, but an end user just like you.

The changes needed to be made by Adobe were not caused by Adobe alone, MicroSoft has again changed how other applications need to interface with their Office product. And like MicroSoft, Adobe does offer a purchase upgrade for less than the full product.

In the past MicroSoft completely replaced their internal macro language for MS Office.

There is information about the Upgrade on the Adobe Acrobat Product Page.

Other options include using OpenOffice.org which can export MS Office documents to PDF.

[Francis_55]

to Bill >> My apologies for implying that you might be a party to Adobe policy if that is not the case.

[Guest]

Acrobat 8 and 9 do not support Office 2010, and according to the person at Adobe I spoke to, never will.

There is a fix available to get Acrobat working with Office 2010, and that is called Acrobat X Upgrade

We may not like it, but this is how Adobe "force" people to pay for newer versions that offer very little in terms of new features.

[Dave Merchant]

We may not like it, but this is how Adobe "force" people to pay for newer versions that offer very little in terms of new features.

Paying for new and improved versions is how the software industry works and always has done. You can and do get limited updates included in the purchase fee, but an upgrade from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat X gives you a new product, and there has to be a cost associated with it. Adobe is doing nothing underhand and has always operated this way. The fact that a third party program (Office) has changed its internal code so that previous versions of PDFMaker won't install is nothing Adobe has any control over, and the same problem is faced by every plugin vendor.

Customers with subscription agreements have reduced-cost or free upgrades, which is why they choose to subscribe. Customers who purchase a retail copy of Acrobat 9 shortly before the release of Acrobat X also receive a free upgrade, but just because someone once bought a copy of Acrobat 2 doesn't mean they should have an entitlement to free software for life.

[Guest]

This comment sounds like a true employee of Adobe!:

""Paying for new and improved versions is how the software industry works and always has done.""

Seriously!?!

I understand companies making new software, etc. too, but is it really that hard to make a simple tweek like this to get it to work?  No, its not.  And i'm not going to pay ANOTHER $150 to what ever cost to upgrade.   I'm tired of doing that, esspecially in this economy.

Not that I condone this, but no wonder Adobe software is one of the most "pirated" software out there! Because they are so expensive!

Again, i say, simple fix!

[Dave Merchant]

The changes from Acrobat 9 to Acrobat X are far more than just a tweak in PDFMaker's code for Office - I agree that if that was _all_ the product team had changed, we should have got it as a free update, making 9 into 9.5. Instead there are tens of thousands of lines of new and updated code across both PDFMaker and Acrobat, with a complete redesign of the UI to boot. The result of that is a new version, not a dot release; and new versions of any commercial software have a price tag.

[id2nv2nj2ca]

While I agree with everything you say about the software industry and their wanting to make money, I also understand completely how I feel about the fact that Adobe or Microsoft implemented a very usable and welcome feature that I use(d) a lot for what I do, where I simply clicked on the Adobe Tab and then Create PDF, and it worked, putting the PDF in the same folder I was working in originally and the name and extension all ready to go.  My "problem" with this incompatibility issue is that I just shelled out $200 for Acrobat 9 Pro, and it worked just fine with my Office 2007 suite which was put on my computer by a friend of mine.  I wanted to be honest and ordered Office 2010, and now one of the two big functions I used in Acrobat is now gone, and it just seems that Microsoft or Adobe are being "cheap".  Yes, they are in business to make money and I appreciate that.  So am I.  But if they can and have made it work until now, all they are doing is alienating customers like me who will be inconvenienced by haveing to perform several more clicks to do what I need simply because they (whichever company is ultimately responsible for this) won't do what they have in the past, which forces people to spend hundreds more to upgrade to take advantage of ONE additional function.  I can only wonder now if the company I bought the Office software from would give me a download for the 2007 version that worked.  In a perfect world, that would happen and I would be happy.  Have a great week.

[astarxy]

have you enabled Acrobat PDF maker in word add-ins?