export to pdf file from MS Access report not correctly formatted

[briannes33]

I have an MS Access 2013 report that when I export it to a pdf file using Adobe Acrobat XI version 11.0.18 the format is not what I set and not what I see on the MS Access screen in print preview.  The problem is with the font weight, e.g., bold, semi-bold, etc.  For example if I have something in bold it comes out light in the pdf file so I have to use extra bold.  Then when I set a header bold the whole detail section becomes bold.  The report prints out fine when sent to the printer yet not when exported to the pdf file.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

[CtDave · Accepted solution]

Acrobat's PDFMaker has not support MS Access for some time (last support was in Acrobat X ending with Office 2010's MS Access).

See: Web browsers and PDFMaker applications compatible with Acrobat and Reader

With Acrobat (not Reader) installed you can use the virtual printer provided (Adobe PDF). This virtual printer provides no output configuration -- what you get reflects what was in place in the source application (in your situation -- whatever is/was configured in MS Access).

Very likely you are using the in-built MS process for making the PDF output. Of course that process is totally MS's. To date it offers little to the end-user for configuration of output. So, again, what ever is in place in MS Access is basically what gets reflected in the output PDF.

[briannes33]

CtDave,

Thanks.  I will check that out.  However, I have reports from the same database that export to a pdf file just fine.  weird!