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Subject:RE: Upgrading Acrobat without messing up Word From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Dec 2007 08:10:01 -0500
Good news -- the upgrade went fine. Acrobat even _asked my permission_
before it overwrote the old Acrobat 6 files, can you imagine? And
PDFMaker.dot vanished gracefully.
Acrobat 8 scans faster, prints faster to PDF, and creates watermarks
faster (and with less file bloat). Worth every penny.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan West
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:52 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Upgrading Acrobat without messing up Word
>
> That at least ought to ensure that PDFMaker is
> uninstalled along with the rest of Acrobat. (Make sure
> Word isn't open when you do the uninstall)
>
> I was thinking of recommending an uninstall myself. I
> was held back by the possibility that your Acrobat 8
> disk is the upgrade version. If you uninstall first,
> I believe you will need to have your Acrobat 6 disk
> available when you install Acrobat 8, in order to
> confirm that you really are upgrading. That's fine if
> you happen to have the disk to hand.
>
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