Do I need to give up on Acrobat for the Mac?

Question

I am using Acrobat Professional 8.1.2 on an Intel Mac with OSX 10.5.2. Under Office 2004, I am unable to get documents through the Distiller properly. Two examples:
i) I have a one page Excel file that has a couple hyperlinks in it. Distiller starts, the progress bar gets about 80% of the way across, and then it just stops. No error messages or crashes, it just stops and sits there until I eventually hit the "cancel" button.
ii) I have a 200+ page Word file that has no links or anything - I just want to convert it to a simple pdf file. Distiller starts, but runs at a rate of about 1 page every 2-3 seconds; simply too slow to deal with.
If I start Parallels (with Office 2003 and Acrobat Standard for Windows), the same files convert very quickly with no issues whatsoever.
I realize that Office itself is contributing to issues on the Mac versus under Windows, but does the Mac version of Acrobat really have that many issues or am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You are correct - the Mac version is not as powerful as the Windows
version in respect of PDF Makers and Office integration.
However, have you tried going to Advanced / Document Processing / Create
Links ..
This option is often overlooked for URLs which describe themselves ...
Jon