I appreciate the response, but it isn't helpful in our case. Some actual parsing rules would be nice to know. ... View more

We are having the same issue. How does the link parsing work? The only thing that seems to work for us is to put a comma at the end of the URL which seems to tell the parser to stop parsing.. however it looks silly to have a comma at the end of a paragraph. A # also works but then the proceeding text is all linked till it reaches a comma (just like Greg's picture above - the link ends at the first comma). Just a note, our pdf is auto-generated from a closed system, so we don't have any other options regarding link creation. ... View more

You can do it with Windows Powershell if you have Word installed. Open a powershell window (windows search bar - search 'windows powershell') and paste the following (update the path to the folder containing the files before pasting as pasting usually just executes the code immediately). #Change the path $path = "C:\Users\jdoe\somefolder\" $word_app = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application #Convert .doc and .docx to .pdf Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Filter *.doc? | ForEach-Object {     $document = $word_app.Documents.Open($_.FullName)     $pdf_filename = "$($_.DirectoryName)\$($_.BaseName).pdf"     $document.SaveAs([ref] $pdf_filename, [ref] 17)     $document.Close() } $word_app.Quit() ... View more

I had this issue as well.  A fix that worked for me was to update my DC to latest version. Then open the PDF and go to Tools -> Comment to show all the text boxes in the right sidebar. Then highlight all the comments in the right sidebar (hold Shift, click the first box, then scroll down and click the last box). Then right click one of the boxes -> Properties. Slide the Opacity slider all the way to 0, let the screen render, then slide it back up to 100%. Then save the PDF. The boxes all readjusted. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ... View more