Adobe acrobat 7.0.5 sdk User Manual

Creating PDF Documents

For the Mac OS, the default Acrobat installation installs the PDFMaker feature for the 
Professional, Standard, and Student and Teacher Editions of the following Microsoft 
applications: 

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Microsoft Excel X (SR-1), 2004

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Microsoft PowerPoint X (SR-1), 2004

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Microsoft Word X (SR-1), 2004

When you install Acrobat using the default installation settings, the installer identifies third-
party applications on your computer that support PDFMaker and installs the necessary 
PDFMaker files to enable those applications to convert files to PDF files. The PDFMaker files 
are also automatically installed if you install such a third-party application after installing 
Acrobat on Windows.

In an application that does not have a PDFMaker, you can still create a PDF file using the 
Adobe PDF printer. Your source document is converted to PostScript and fed directly to 
Distiller for conversion to PDF, without manually starting Distiller. The current Distiller 
preference settings and Adobe PDF settings are used to convert the file. 

Use the Save As or Export command to create an Adobe PDF file from the current file. 
This method is available in authoring applications such as Adobe InDesign, Adobe 
Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, and Adobe PageMaker. All the necessary components 
for creating Adobe PDF files are installed and configured automatically when you 
perform a typical installation.