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Steven Lyle Jordan · 05-13-2008, 08:47 AM

Okay, what happens is simple:

In Word, there is the Acrobat icon in the upper menu (two, actually, one for creating a PDF, one for creating and e-mailing the PDF). These are installed when you load Acrobat onto your PC. With a Word document open, you simply click on one of these icons to start the PDF process.

Using the icon as I always have, I clicked on it with an open document onscreen. The PDF process starts, but before it gets more than about ten seconds into the process--I believe that's the "done with setup, now printing pages" stage--the PDF application freezes, and will not release.

CTRL-ALT-DELETE will bring up the App Manager, at which point you will see 2 PDF functions running. Selecting and shutting down either of them will close Word, and the frozen print box, but the document will stay in the printer queue until you restart Windows.

See? Simple.

I have the same result when I use the File-Print method and select the Acrobat driver from the print menu.

Anyway, this same process has always worked under Win2K, Word2K and Acrobat 5. @AnemicOak, I manually installed each program with the same functions on each platform. WinXP is the only new variable here, but I suspect it might be Word2K that is the hangup, just because it's the oldest of the applications, and there was no WinXP to sync it to.

@junior: I've never heard of bullzip. Does it also tag PDF files for reflowing?

05-13-2008, 08:47 AM	#7
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	Okay, what happens is simple: In Word, there is the Acrobat icon in the upper menu (two, actually, one for creating a PDF, one for creating and e-mailing the PDF). These are installed when you load Acrobat onto your PC. With a Word document open, you simply click on one of these icons to start the PDF process. Using the icon as I always have, I clicked on it with an open document onscreen. The PDF process starts, but before it gets more than about ten seconds into the process--I believe that's the "done with setup, now printing pages" stage--the PDF application freezes, and will not release. CTRL-ALT-DELETE will bring up the App Manager, at which point you will see 2 PDF functions running. Selecting and shutting down either of them will close Word, and the frozen print box, but the document will stay in the printer queue until you restart Windows. See? Simple. I have the same result when I use the File-Print method and select the Acrobat driver from the print menu. Anyway, this same process has always worked under Win2K, Word2K and Acrobat 5. @AnemicOak, I manually installed each program with the same functions on each platform. WinXP is the only new variable here, but I suspect it might be Word2K that is the hangup, just because it's the oldest of the applications, and there was no WinXP to sync it to. @junior: I've never heard of bullzip. Does it also tag PDF files for reflowing?