This is not a Word issue - Word 2007 has its own downloadable PDF creation
tool. You *may* get some advice in the Windows Vista forum with reference to
the immediate problem, but really Adobe and their forum are the folks to
help sort out problems with their software.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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awothers wrote:
[Quoted Text] > I use Vista Ultimate with 4GB RAM.
>
> In my former XP machine "Adobe PDF" appeared in the printer list in
> Word 2003 and I never had any problem creating PDF files.
>
> On my Vista machine and Word 2007 Adobe PDF does not appear in the
> printer list.
>
> When I try to create a PDF from the Acorbat icon in Word I get the
> following error message:
> "PDFMaker cannot locate the Adobe PDF Printer's priner driver. Please
> re-install Adobe Acrobat 8.0." (note: I did this - did not solve
> issue)
>
> When I contacted Adobe, they got me to the "Print Spooler Properties"
> dialog and under "This service depends on the following system
> components:" the following are listed:
>
> HTTP -> Remote Procedure Call (RPC) -> DCOM Server Process Launcher.
>
> They suggested that I disable the DCOM Server Process Launcher.
>
> I found DCOM Server Process Laucher as follows:
>
> Control Panel->Administrative Tools -> Services. The problem is that
> the drop down list that would allow me to change the Startup type is
> greyed out.
>
> The Adobe tech support person referred me to their Knowledge Base
> article 333221.
>
> It seems to me that there is an issue with Vista and permissions.
>
> Can anyone help.
>
> Thanks, Alan
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