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Subject:Re: Seeking Help With Adobe Acrobat/PDF Issue From:"Poster" <Poster -at- aurora -dot- cotse -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 12 May 2005 22:25:08 -0400 (EDT)
Steven Oppenheimer said:
> I have some very elaborate MS Word documents I've created for a client
> --
> fancy formatting, nice headings, tables, illustrations, etc., etc. I
> am
> running into some challenges in turning them into .pdfs.
Yup...I've been there. :|
I had the same problems under Win 2K, using the PDFmaker app that
allows you to print a PDF straight from Word. My perennial thorn in
the side was the thickness of lines in tables. They would always
change in the PDF. I occasionally saw the funky character problem,
too.
Here's what I found helped:
1) When making the PDF (my .02 is to go with the PDFmaker), close all
other apps.
2) View the document in normal mode at 100%.
These reduce the potential interruptions and number of adjustments
that the PDFMaker has to do. With that said, I've never printed it to
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