OT: Word to PDF

[Ridder, Fred]

Not completely accurate, Art. The weakest PDF tool is PDFWriter,
which is not an issue here. Both PDFMaker and the Adobe PDF 
printer instance are installed as part of the Adobe Acrobat tool
suite, and both of them use Acrobat Distiller (although they do it
"under the hood" or "behind the curtain"). The advantage of the
PDFMaker tool is that it preserves at least some of the hyperlinks
from the Word file, although those are often the features that cause
the kind of problem Tammy reported. But there is no significant
difference between printing to file using the Adobe PDF driver and
then explicitly distilling versus simply printing to the Adobe PDF
printer and letting it automatically pipe the PostScript to Distiller.

And it's generally bad advice to recommend the use of any printer
driver other than the Adobe PDF driver when you're making PDF.
For one thing, that's the single most common cause of losing colors
in the PDF.

My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com)
Intel
Parsippany, NJ



-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of Art Campbell
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:21 PM
To: Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com
Cc: framers at frameusers.com
Subject: Re: OT: Word to PDF

Well, your methodology is using the two weakest .pdf tools.
If you have Distiller, print the Word file to a PostScript printer and
specify "print to file."
Then distill it manually to see if that helps.

Also, the Adobe Acrobat user forum on the Adobe site would probably
have some helpful info.

Art


On 1/11/06, Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com
<Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com> wrote:

> Windows XP
> Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0
> MS Word 2002
>
> Inherited a Word doc with 143 pages, 2.99 MB that I need to convert to
> PDF. I have done a Save As and renamed to preserve the original and
ensure
> that I know it is a Word 2002 doc that I am working with. I have done
> everything I know in my power to get this sucker to convert to a PDF
> -Wwithin Word using both PDFMaker and the Adobe PDF Printer. I have
also
> tried from within Adobe Acrobat and no matter what I do, barf, crash,
bang
> . ..  I cannot get this document to convert. I get the classic error
> message about flushing offending stack and not producing the PDF.
>
> What should I be looking for/troubleshooting in this otherwise
fruitless
> endeavor?
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