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Topic: Acrobat Distiller cannot distill the file
Conf: (P-PDF) Paper to PDF, Msg: 71556
From: estinct
Date: 8/30/2002 02:20 PM

Can someone explain this stupid novice what heliosteam wrote? A friend of mind does the installing. Perhaps I should be doing the installing in the future.

Thanks alot heliosteam!

On 8/30/2002 1:50:55 PM, estinct wrote:
>
Where can you find
>"Administrator-Rights" and "user access"
>in NT as well as Windows 2000
>Professional?

Thanks

On 5/11/2001
>5:14:00 PM, heliosteam wrote:
>On
>2/27/2001 1:14:00 PM, dmbyrnes
>wrote:
>>I'm using Acrobat 4.05a on
>a
>>Dell desktop system
>running
>>Windows NT4/SP5 and a few
>days
>>ago lost the ability to
>>distill
>Word 97 files into
>>PDFs. When I try to
>convert
>>any Word file of any
>size,
>>Acrobat creates links
>and
>>labels, converts, maps,
>starts
>>Distiller and then
>generates
>>an "Acrobat Distiller
>cannot
>>distill this file"
>message.
>>
>>I purchased and installed
>the
>>software last fall and I've
>>had
>no problems before last
>>week.
>Fortunately I can still
>>distill Word
>97 files on my
>>Windows 2000
>notebook.
>>
>>I've uninstalled
>and
>>reinstalled Acrobat. I found
>a
>>knowledgebase article at
>>adobe.com
>with this error
>>message which said I
>had to
>>have full access
>Administrator
>>permissions on NT. I've
>always
>>had full access
>Administrator
>>permissions, but I
>went
>>through the suggested
>registry
>>edits anyway, and
>nothing
>>helped.
>>
>>How can I get
>distilling again
>>on this
>computer?
>
>Maybe you have no problems
>yet, don`t
>mention it. But if you still
>have try
>maybe following:
>1. If you
>install Acrobat after
>installing Word
>97 or 2000 with
>"administrator log in"
>you must log in
>after re starting your
>machine with the
>same log in you have
>installed Acrobat.
>If you use under NT
>an other log in it
>doesn?t run.
>2. If
>you are working in a NT-Network
>and
>your log in is different
>than
>"Admin-log-in", you have to
>do
>following: Before installing
>Acrobat
>under this account, you have to
>set in
>administrator function all
>rights to
>this account. step out and
>log in once
>more. Than install Acrobat
>under this
>different account. Than
>restart and
>enter as ADMIN, reset the
>rights to the
>other account, restart
>and I think it
>will run correct under
>this account. We
>run 3600
>Acrobat-Licenses under NT and
>the most
>common mistake is, that
>Administrators
>install under
>Administrator-Rights and
>not under user
>access.
>
>Sorry for my
>strange english, but I hope
>it will
>work after doing that.
>
>Harald