Existing users, 
I just updated from Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. I *used* to be able to print ANY Microsoft Office document (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) by using the floating PDF icon on the palette in the Office application. This now DOES NOT WORK with the new (improved) Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software.
Installing this *upgrade* has broken all of this functionality. ALSO: Within the Acrobat 9 Pro software, you create a PDF by going to the File Menu —> Create PDF —> from file and then select the file you want to convert to a pdf.
This too DOES NOT WORK with any MS-Office document, from either the new Office 2008 for Mac or the prior Office 2004. The error message states: "Acrobat could not open xxxx.docx because it is either not a supported file type..."
Again, NO Office document is supported. THE ONLY WAY to create a PDF is to *PRINT* to the Acrobat 9 printer driver. THIS IS CRAZY. Why would Adobe release an 'upgrade' which breaks functions (and obvious/basic ones at that) from its previous Acrobat 8 Professional software?!!
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Create and edit PDF files.
Version: 8.1.3
Acrobat 9 is a nightmare!
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: tliszt Wednesday, July 09 2008 @ 09:29 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Overall Rating:
Ease of Use:
Support:
Features:
Quality / Stability:
Price:
Comments
Acrobat 9 is a nightmare! - DavidRavenMoon
I'm glad they got rid of that stupid floating button! People have been trying to nuke that stupid thing for years. So Adobe finally listened to users.The other reason they got rid of it is the new version of Word doesn't have the floating tool bar like the older version, so there's no place for that button to go!
Just use the PDF printer, OR the built in OS X save as PDF function, OR the save as PDF function built into Word.
There... you got three ways to do it. What's the problem?
Thursday, November 06 2008 @ 04:51 AM PST
Acrobat 9 is a nightmare! - macnerd10
Fully agree. For years I've been creating PDF files from Office documents through the print-save as PDF function built in the Mac OS. Several times tried to do it through Acrobat and either failed (did not go through) or the output quality was much worse than Apple's.Alex
Thursday, November 06 2008 @ 10:38 AM PST
Acrobat 9 is a nightmare! - versiontracker2007
Because 27 different ways of doing the same thing is just plain stupid. The floaty palette thing is absurd. It just kicks in print functionality. Besides, Office 2008 doesn't support extensions the same way as Office 2004 did, and Acrobat 9 was built with Office 2008 in mind.You're pretending that you can't use it at all, but you can, you just have to stop expecting to be babied through the process. I mean, god, write a fcuking AppleScript if you can't handle using the menus.
Reply to This
Thursday, November 06 2008 @ 12:05 AM PST