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_EDL_
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April 13, 2007
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Problems converting Word documents to PDF

  • April 13, 2007
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I am having trouble converting Word documents to PDF files. Whenever I try to convert the file, I receive the following error message: Missing PDFMaker files. Do you want to run the installer in repair mode? When I run the installer in repair mode, I still receive the same message. I have Adobe Acobat Professional 8 and MS Office 2007 installed on my PC.
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    johnsmith753
    Participating Frequently
    August 3, 2011

    I have same problem while I am converting Word doc to PDF using Adobe Acrobat. After tha i have used an alternative way to convert Word to PDF by following this poast. http://forums.adobe.com/message/3505357#3505357

    It works great, you may try it.

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    Mae91
    Participant
    August 3, 2011

    I've found the easiest way to do this conversion is to do my document in Open Office. Then it's simply a matter of clicking on the icon that says "export directly to PDF" and it just all happens.  Hope this suggestion helps you.

    Mae91

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    1860Krug
    Participant
    January 12, 2011

    I use Windows XP Home Version SP3 (Pentium 4, 1.25 GB of RAM) with Adobe Acrobat X Pro and Microsoft Office Word 2003.

    After creating a large MS Word document (4 MB, text only) with multiple tables of contents, I realized that it can take up to one hour to convert it to Adobe PDF though the ADOBE PDF plug-in. I understand that in order to get the hyperlinks of the table of contents working in PDF, I convert it via the plug-in. In particular, “processing for tag information” seems to be very time consuming. Nonetheless, while I am pleased that the hyperlinks of the table of contents work in PDF, I am concerned that it can take up to an hour to convert the MS Word document. When I am converting the same document on the same PC using OpenOffice Writer instead, it only takes a couple of minutes. Why posting this message at all? Well, I prefer to use MS Word 2003 on a PC for creating multiple tables of contents. My question to the audience is the following: is my PC perhaps not powerful enough to convert quickly a large MS Word 2003 document with multiple tables of contents into PDF?

    Many thanks for your feedback.

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    Adobe Employee
    ApoorvM
    Adobe Employee
    February 1, 2011

    Hi ,

    You can try unchecking 'Enable accessibility and reflow with tagged adobe PDF' in the 'Preferences' tab of the Acrobat ribbon in Word2003. Unless you specifically need tags in your PDF for accessibility uses you can turn off the functionality to speed up the conversion process .


    Please try if this helps.

    Thanks,

    Apoorv

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    _tattey_
    Participant
    March 4, 2009
    When I try convert a word 03 doc to pdf (pro9), there are large pieces of text blanked out. I don't have this problem using standard 7. Does anyone have any advice?
    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 18, 2009
    Dan... Did you read my message #67 ? (you are 68)

    Did you try the Microsoft plugin for Word 7 ?
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    _Dan_McKane_
    Participant
    February 18, 2009
    Hi,

    I'm having a problem when I convert a MicroSoft Word (2007) document to a .pdf. I have Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional installed on my computer.

    Under document properties, the converted document description is:
    - PDF Version: 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x)

    The problem I'm having is that once converted the images are no longer at high resolution. Is there a way to convert a Word document and maintain the image resolution?

    Thank you in advance.

    Dan
    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 18, 2009
    If you are missing the PDF option in MS Office 2007, you may
    download a plug-in from MS to create a PDF without Acrobat, go
    to the MS article search page and do a search, or go to the MS
    Office update page and search for the file to download

    Search http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

    Office http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/default.aspx
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    _Elena_Bui_
    Participant
    February 18, 2009
    Hi!
    I have a similar problem.... I'm working on an help on line and to do this I need in the final pdf file both bookmarks and named destinations. So in the word document I wrote the PostScript for named destination as PRINT \p Group "[/Dest /name /DEST pdfmark" into the object filed opened by ctrl + F9. For bookmarks I added it from the Word menu. But when I print the document by PDF printer only the named destinations are reported into the pdf file. While if I convert the word into a PDF file by the button on the headline of word only the bookmarks are reported into the pdf file. Is there a way to report into the pdf file togheter the named destinations and the bookmarks?
    And is it possible to create a named destination that let to go, into the pdf file, to a relative point of the page and not only to the page in which there is the object related to the named destinations?
    Please help me!!!!

    Elena
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    _Alexandra_Kruglova_
    Participant
    February 16, 2009
    Hi, EDL try third party solutions: I know that Word have a plug-in for the convertion but i haven't tried it. I'm using Altsoft Xml2PDF Workstation to convert Word to PDF, it works nice (http://alt-soft.com/Downloads.aspx)
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    _JamesIII_
    Participant
    February 4, 2009
    I have found the solution to these annoying problems. I am running MS Vista and MS Office 2007. I solved the problem very easily. This is the solution go to control panel, click on user accounts then click on "Turn User Account On Off" then uncheck "Use User Account Control". You must then reboot and your problems are over.
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