PDF Creator Bad Behavior

[Andy]

I recently installed the upgrade to PDF Creator (registered user).

Without my knowledge, you installed a toolbar to Word.
This is unacceptable practice!!!

I could not get rid of the toolbar. Even when I unselected it, it
appeared the next time I opened Word. I then deleted it entirely, and
it still re-appeared. I couldn't find anything in Word's Start
directory, or any entry in the Add-in dialog.

So I added to my autoexec macro the line:

CommandBars("Foxit PDF Creator").Visible = False

This worked, except that then I got a message asking me if I wanted to
save Normal.dot every time I exited Word, even if I didn't make any
changes to Normal.dot.

So I had to add another line to autoexec:

NormalTemplate.Saved = True

YOU SHOULD NOT BE MESSING WITH THE NORMAL.DOT FILE WITHOUT PERMISSION
FROM THE USER!!!

I like this program, and will continue to use it with the above
workaround. But you should fix this on the next build.

Meanwhile, is there a registry entry I can change to stop this bad behavior?

[Andy]

I found the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\ Addins\FPC_WordAddin.FpcWordAddin

I don't want to eliminate the add-in. I copied the button from your toolbar to my tool bar, so I don't want to lose the functionality.

I just don't want your toolbar displaying every time I open Word, and then having to add my code to normal.dot to hide the toolbar and not have you cause a change to normal.dot

[Andy]

I should clarify what I'm looking for here. While I still think you shouldn't install a toolbar without the user's permission, what is key is that I should be able to uncheck the toolbar and have it remain unchecked the next time I open Word. This is how all the other toolbars work.

[Jessamine]

Our creator does not have a toolbar for Word. It just adds a virtual printer to your PC.

[Normandie]

Originally Posted by Jessamine

Our creator does not have a toolbar for Word. It just adds a virtual printer to your PC.

Jessamine,

Sorry but creator did add a toolbar to Word in my case. I don't mind that it did, but it is there. I am adding a screen shot to show what it did.

have a good day,
Normandie

[Normandie]

Originally Posted by Andy

I found the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\ Addins\FPC_WordAddin.FpcWordAddin

I don't want to eliminate the add-in. I copied the button from your toolbar to my tool bar, so I don't want to lose the functionality.

I just don't want your toolbar displaying every time I open Word, and then having to add my code to normal.dot to hide the toolbar and not have you cause a change to normal.dot

How did you get rid of their toolbar? I copied their icon to my toobar and tried to right click on the toolbar to no longer show theirs, but each time I start Word it comes back. I even tried to delete theirs from Word and each time I start Word it is back.

Thanks,
Normandie

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Normandie

How did you get rid of their toolbar? I copied their icon to my toobar and tried to right click on the toolbar to no longer show theirs, but each time I start Word it comes back. I even tried to delete theirs from Word and each time I start Word it is back.

That's exactly the behavior I was complaining about.

I added two lines to an autoexec() macro in normal.dot:

CommandBars("Foxit PDF Creator").Visible = False
NormalTemplate.Saved = True

You'll see the toolbar momentarily appear and then disappear. The second line is to prevent Word asking on exit "The normal.dot file has changed, do you want to save it?", unless you really have changed it.

I also have autoopen and autonew macros I added these lines to, but that might not be necessary. I haven't gotten around to experimenting.

[Andy]

Forgot to mention that deleting the registry key I mentioned eliminates the toolbar. But it also makes any copy of their button on your toolbar non-functional. I like having the button, so I left the registry entry in.

I also have a button that changes the active printer to the Foxit printer, prints the document to a pdf file, and then restores my laser printer as the active printer.

But I like the new button also so I put the registry entry back.

I'm confident the Foxit programmers will make it so that the toolbar will stay unchecked, but still installed so any copied button will still work. Until then, I'll leave those lines in the auto macros.

[Normandie]

Originally Posted by Andy

That's exactly the behavior I was complaining about.

I added two lines to an autoexec() macro in normal.dot:

CommandBars("Foxit PDF Creator").Visible = False
NormalTemplate.Saved = True

You'll see the toolbar momentarily appear and then disappear. The second line is to prevent Word asking on exit "The normal.dot file has changed, do you want to save it?", unless you really have changed it.

I also have autoopen and autonew macros I added these lines to, but that might not be necessary. I haven't gotten around to experimenting.

Andy,

Sorry to bug you, but how do you do the above? I am not an avid Word user, so I don't have any idea how to add those lines or where. I have used WordPerfect for the last 30 years and plan on staying with it, but would like to correct this for the time I need Word.

Thanks,
Normandie

[Andy]

Do you know how to record a macro?