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Word to PDF conversion: Shifting text

  • January 2, 2023
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Hello,

I'm writing my thesis and every time I create a PDF through the Acrobat tool in Word, the text in the PDF is slightly different: it adds one extra line per page (as in the attached, before and after).

This might seem like a very minor issue - but it completely messes up my structure and page layout.

Is there a way of converting the file to a PDF while faithfully retaining the format of the original Word document?

Thanks so much for your help.

Yannis

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AkanchhaS8194121
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January 5, 2023

Hi @Ioannis260733166cu6 

 

Thanks for highlighting this. 

The documents look quite identical. We'll see why there's a slight difference in formatting. 

Since you have converted the document using Acrobat plugin within Word, we'd like you to try converting the word file from/within Acrobat itself using its "Create PDF" feature.

 

Also, check with another conversion and see if that helps.

 

Thanks,

Akanchha

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    Hello and thank you very much for your reply.

     

    I've tried both the 'Save as PDF' option and the 'Create PDF option' in Word and I get the same result (i.e. the formatting changes) in both. I tried creating the PDF directly through Acrobat and I got the following message:

    "Acrobat could not open the file because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as a email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).

    To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the document to Adobe PDF."

     

    When I print the document to Adobe PDF and save it, it actually retains the formatting (hurrah!) but a new problem pops up: it will not let me select the page size (for my thesis, my university stipulates that it must be 16 x 24 cm). When I select the custom page size from the print menu and click on 'Set as Default', it simply reverts to the standard A4 size. So the final PDF document looks identical to the Word original but with huge margins around it, which is not what I want.

     

    Do you know how I could fix this?

     

    Thanks a lot for your help,

    Yannis

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    January 6, 2023

    Good to hear that it worked @Ioannis260733166cu6 

    We appreciate you taking out time and share your findings with us. I'm sure this will help your fellow community members find a solution to similar problems.

    Also, from your suggestions, you chose to print the word file to another PDFCreator to generate a pdf file. Is that right?

     

    Thanks,

    Akanchha


    Yes, that's correct. I had actually forgotten I had downloaded it. It's called PDFCreator and I downloaded it from pdfforge.org

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