Acrobat failed to connect to a DDE server"

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:53:43 -0400, SilverSlimer wrote:

It's stuff like that which perpetually renews my interest in Linux.
I've had the same thing happen with CDBurnerXP if I remember
correctly. In exchange for the free price of the product, the
developers decided that it was fair to install adware. Meanwhile,
open-source developers feel no such need.

There are two completely different issues with PDF Creator.
1. It's filled to the brim with ads, but that's not my issue with it.
2. It didn't create a PDF whose links were clickable.

The second issue is the problem; not the first.
(See the solution to the first problem below.)

I can deal with removal of the adware if it actually did the job.
But, my first test before I uninstalled it showed it didn't do the job.

I don't blame the guy who suggested it - as every suggestion is risky, just
as my suggestions about the Cascade Menu in Windows is risky as I can't
believe you guys don't know about the Cascade Menu (since I wrote an entire
tutorial on it, for example).

So I do NOT blame the guy who suggested it.
I simply tested it, and it failed for two reasons:
1. It's adware - but that doesn't matter to me, and,
2. It didn't create a PDF of a web page with clickable links.

So I deleted it yesterday.

But today, I looked at the two hard drives, one bricked by Microsoft back
in January (due to Windows update) and the other bricked by me a couple of
weeks ago (due to Cortana).

I noticed that on those hard drives I already had dealt with PDF Creator
and hence I already had an extensive log file on it:
http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_pspdf_apps_1.jpg

Here is a shot of my log file on PDF Creator in my bricked archives:
http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_pspdf_apps_2.jpg

Bearing in mind that my software DVD only contains the bare minimum of
software, I had forgotten that I already had the last known good version
of PDF Creator, notice in that screenshot there are two HDDs there, both of
which were corrupted and on a different machine than the one I'm currently
rebuilding the software for.

Here are some of the PDF tools in those archives:
This PC Corrupted-by-ms software editor pspdf
- GhostScript/GhostView == used to strip off permissions from PDFs
- HP PDF == used to print to PDF sans your username in the PDF
- PDF image extraction wizard == last known good version
- PDF Creator == version 1.7.1 is the last version sans ads
- PDF SAM == split and merge
- PDF Toolkit == used to add & remove pages
- PDF Exchange Viewer == last good version used for image extraction
- XPDF == I forget why I needed this at one point in time
- MU PDF == I forget why I needed this at one point in time
- Sumatra == used for basic fast viewing of PDFs
- Fineprint == used to create complicated book-format PDFs
- Posterazor == used for tiled special-purpose PDFs
- Posterizia == used for tiled special-purpose PDFs
- Rasterbator == used for tiled special-purpose PDFscute

According to my detailed log on PDF Creator, last updated on 11/30/2017,
Keith Nuttle suggested version 1.7.1 as the last good version sans adware
which I had downloaded, at that time, from:
http://jcdiaz.net/jcd-downloads/PDFCreator%201.7.1.htm
(Mayayana suggested a later version - but it contained adware.)