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pault24107590
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April 7, 2018
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Print PDF from MS Word, image scales change in PDF.

  • April 7, 2018
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Hi there,

I'm trying to print my university assignments from MS Word O365 into PDF. The images in the MS Word document are the same size and location when I print to PDF, but they are zoomed in so much of the image is not even visible. How do I change to print what is shown exactly in MS Word?

See the pictures below: top image is PDF print, bottom image is MS Word. See much of the image is missing. 

Many thanks for any help.

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

Printing to PDF (i.e., the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance) is a generally considered a second rate method of PDF creation compared to using Acrobat's PDFMaker (Save as AdobePDF) method of PDF creation. What happens if you use Save as Adobe PDF?

          - Dov

PS: The formatting of the printing to PDF is controlled by Microsoft Office's print mechanism and has nothing to do with any Adobe software. By the time Acrobat Distiller gets involved to create PDF from PostScript, Word has output GDI to the Windows PostScript driver which creates PostScript. Everything is already formatted (and in this case, not right)!

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Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
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April 8, 2018

Printing to PDF (i.e., the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance) is a generally considered a second rate method of PDF creation compared to using Acrobat's PDFMaker (Save as AdobePDF) method of PDF creation. What happens if you use Save as Adobe PDF?

          - Dov

PS: The formatting of the printing to PDF is controlled by Microsoft Office's print mechanism and has nothing to do with any Adobe software. By the time Acrobat Distiller gets involved to create PDF from PostScript, Word has output GDI to the Windows PostScript driver which creates PostScript. Everything is already formatted (and in this case, not right)!

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
pault24107590
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April 8, 2018

Ha it worked! I thought you had to print to make PDFs.

Thanks Dov