Creating PDF from Office 20101 Hangs

I have Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.2.5, on Windows 7 lapiop with Office 2010. Up unitl 2 weeks ago PDF creation using PDFMaker toolbar in Office and from Exployrer and from with Adobe was all working fine. Now when creating a PDF form Office 2010 hang after starting
I have unistalled and reinstalled Acrobat Professional with the same result

I have done this and it has not fixed the issue
The Adobe tool bar is viable and functions in all the MS Office application Word, Excel & PowerPoint.
The PDF creation process hangs it he following scenarios
1. Pressing the create PDF button in MS Office applications. The process begin –> convert to PDF -> and saver the PDF file as - but during the creation process hangs.
2. Right clicking on a word , Excel or PTT file from Windows Explorer PDF distiller hangs
In Adobe acrobat Professional 8.2.5 create PDF from a file hangs

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I don't know about the PC version but in the Mac version if you don't have drawing objects checked in Print and
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My name is Scott Knowles, tech support guy for my sister's PC ... whose account this is.

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Can't create PDFs from Word due to Cambria font. Help.

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How are you trying to create the PDF? With AA9 you have to print to the Adobe PDF printer or use the MS plugin.
When you say you cannot create PDFs because of Cambria, what error messages are you getting and copy them here? At this point we really do not know what you are having problems with or how you are trying to create PDFs.
In the future, please provide a topic to help folks that are stepping through all of the posts. A blank topic almost led me to simply skip your post.

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Acrobat Professional. 6.0.
I never used Acrobats "Create PDF from file", as in my MS Office 2000 there was "Acrobat - Convert to Adobe PDF" menu item with the possibility to change joboptions settings.
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I am a publisher of crossword magazine and I use Excel to write crosswords. Then I create PDF's and import them into InDesign.
Should I use internal export included in Excel 2013? Are these PDF's ok for working in InDesign and finally for print purposes?
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These are tough issues I suspect and the answer you need is probably trivial (it is finding it). I will make some suggestions, but I have no idea if any will work.
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- Under the printer preferences>settings>edit the settings file, I use again 300 dpi (default is 1200 dpi).
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All I am trying to suggest are the things I would be looking at. Maybe they will lead you someplace. Others may be by with better suggestions in time.

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