I am trying to embed a PDF into a PowerPoint slide. I get the following error message:
The server application, source file, or item can't be found, or returned an unknown error. You may need to reinstall the server application.
I use Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 with Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate.
I am aware of the Microsoft help page:
- I do have enough memory
- The path name of a linked file does not exceed 128 characters
- The linked object is not open by any other program
- I have the same issue with all of the PDFs I have tried to embed
What other issue could it be?
Note that I don't have the issue when checking the "Link" option:
3 Answers
I have the same issue. You may can get around this by
- Open your Adobe Reader X.
- Click Edit located on upper left side of the toolbar.
- Click Preferences.
- The Preferences window will appear on your screen. Select General Category from the right left pane.
- Tick or Untick the Enable Protected Mode at Startup checkbox to enable or disable the feature.
Have a look here
It unfortunately only worked on one of my machines. Still there are two test machines having that exact problem where this fix doesn't apply.
5Coming in a bit late, but on my box, I had to both turn off "Enable Protected Mode at Startup" and make Acrobat Reader the default program to open PDF files. By default on my system it was Acrobat Pro, which apparently prevented embedding.
The workaround to this would be to try the following steps on Power Point :
Insert - Object - Create new and choose "Package" as the object type in the drop down - Browse the file and insert.
