Trouble converting pdf into word document (for a letterhead)

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December 6, 2018
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Hi,

I'm not sure this is the most appropriate place for my quandary, still, I'm hoping someone might have some illuminating tips?

I've been asked to put together a letterhead for a law firm, so far so good, the firm will primarily be using Word for their correspondence, so I need to create a word document template that contains the letterhead design. And I'm having a real hard time of it.

I've saved the letterhead as a 300dpi jpg and inserted it into the Word doc and it looks... awful. One blog suggested that even though it looks blurry on screen it will actually print "crisp" - that may be so, but probably the firm will use the word doc digitally too so it needs to look good on screen.

Help

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Jacob Bugge

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Phoe,

Why use lossy JPEG (which may be in less than Maximum quality) instead of more crisp/clear oriented PNG24, or even better one of the vector formats that is understood by Word, such as PDF (as I understand newer Word versions can handle, said by someone that never had it) or WMF or EMF? And you may consider SVG at least for web use.

If you must use a raster format for some (or no) reason, (in the possibly specific version) for screen use it should have the exact pixel x pixel size at which it is displayed/used.

And have you used the optimization option(s)?

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PhoePhoeAuthor

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Thanks for your reply Jacob, yes, it's tricky because I don't use Word

regularly so my version is slightly older (14.7.7) and I think the latest

Word is 16.something and perhaps the opening PDF's in word without

formatting issues has been resolved in newer versions, it's hard to tell

without the latest version.

I think my client has the latest version of Word because they say they have

been able to open the PDF but seemingly are unable to edit it/ write over

it for correspondence.

The reason I was using a high res Jpeg was because I found a youtube

tutorial who used Jpeg without issue, though you're quite right PNG24 could

work as well or better, it is optimised.

I am surprised at how tricky this has proven, kinda hate Word right now.

jane-e

Community Expert

PhoePhoe wrote
I think my client has the latest version of Word because they say they have
been able to open the PDF but seemingly are unable to edit it/ write over
it for correspondence.
I am surprised at how tricky this has proven, kinda hate Word right now.

If all you have is the letterhead that you showed us, they need to put it into the Header area of Word so they can type on top of it. In Acrobat, convert it to an image with File > Export > Image and choose tiff or jpeg. The default for jpeg is Medium. Click Settings and change it to Maximum since you have bad quality with medium.
Right click the image in the header and set the text wrap to behind text.

If, instead, it needs to be converted to text, then inside of Acrobat, choose File > Export to > MS Word. Select the file, then click the Settings button to either make it flowable or to retain the format (put it in frames). Still put it in the Header in Word.