Problems converting Word documents to PDF

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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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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.

[ApoorvM]

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

[Mae91]

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

[johnsmith753]

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.