Additional files will need to be installed error -- cannot pdf a simple MS Word doc

Just installed Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium. For some reason it will not let me pdf a word document. When I open acrobat and click on "Create" pdf from file---then select the document I want to pdf...it tells me I cannot and says" Additional files will need to be installed to create pdf from this file. You must have adminstrator priviledges to install these files. Please contact your local administrator."
I have tried this with many different files with the same message. Can anyone help me?

THe additional files statement is related to the PDF Maker files that some solutions are pointed to by others in this discussion. The fact that you can not make a PDF by printing to the Adobe PDF printer indicates more fundamental problems that need to be solved first. Try printing to the printer with Print-to-file selected. Then open this file in Distiller to see if a PDF is created.
If not, the Distiller window should show the errors of the process. When printing to the Adobe PDF printer, if it gets to Distiller the errors are stored in a log file, not displayed on screen necessarily.
If the PDF is created, then go back and try printing directly. If this latter step does not work (your message suggests it will fail), then check for AcroTray running in the background. This is a required application for any of the Acrobat PDF creation tools to work, except when using the print-to-file option I just mentioned.
After these steps work, then start looking at PDF Maker, since it is simply a preprocessor for the printer. When you open a DOC file in Acrobat, it is also just using PDF Maker by way of WORD. All of these processes are layered and not independent. I hope this helps you see the steps for diagnosis.

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