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Remove Acrobat toolbar from Office v.X applications
Authored by: utangmi on Nov 30, '03 12:58:28PM

The best method to remove the acrobat toolbar icons from all office producs is to modify 2 XML files that Acrobat 6 creates. There are entries within these XML files that allows acrobat to check for and/or reinstall the toolbar icons. Modifying the entries to state "NO" prevents the toolbar icons from reinstalling itself. I used BBEDIT to modify the files.

1) First Quit all Applications.

2) delete the PDFMaker startup items from the startup folder within the office directory inside the Microsoft Office Application folder.

3) Modify the XML files. The files are located at:
Your HD > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Acrobat

The 2 files are named:
AcroENUProSelfHeal.xml (Acrobat 6 pro file)
AcroENUDistSelfHeal.xml (Acrobat 6 distiller file)

Look for the following tags:
<dict>
<key>install</key>
<string>YES</string>
<key>type</key>
<string>PDFMaker</string>
</dict>

change the "YES" entry between the <string> tags to "NO".

4) save and repeat for the other XML file.

Now when you restart Acrobat 6 Professional or Distiller they will not reinstall the PDFMaker startup items.

And that's it.



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Remove Acrobat toolbar from Office v.X applications
Authored by: sipatel on Dec 01, '03 09:30:17PM

Just remove the startup folder from its original location and put it into an untitled folder. Problems resolved.



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