Last updated on
May 18, 2021
Unable to find Adobe PDF resource files while creating PDFs from within Microsoft Office applications
Creating a PDF using the Acrobat menu from within a Microsoft Office application (Word, Excel, or Outlook) or trying to save the document as Adobe PDF results in the following error:
"Unable to find 'Adobe PDF' resource files. Acrobat PDFMaker. You must have Administrator privileges to install these files. Please contact your local system administrator."
Workaround: Download and install Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime application
Download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime application.