Hi Dana:
In Word terms, that's a small document, so it's not the size that's the
problem, it's the internal structure of the document.
There's something in there that Acrobat doesn't like. It's significant that
the problem occurs on the last page, indicating that the default section
break at the end of the document could be involved. The default section
break stores all of the document's meta data and structural information,
including all of the styles and formatting in the document. This structure
quite often suffers corruption.
I suggest that you create a new blank document, save it under a new name,
then carefully select everything EXCEPT the last paragraph mark in the bad
document and copy. Paste into the new document and see whether than alters
the behaviour.
With luck, that may fix it.
There's another technique you can try: round-trip the file to HTML (save as
web page, close, re-open the web version and save as document). In a
document with lots of pictures the pictures may be exported to GIF on save
and so you would then have to go and re-insert all of the originals.
Either technique will probably clean up the corrupted code in the document
and enable the export to PDF to complete.
If not, get back to us with more detail: I need to know what's on that last
page that's causing the problem. Things to be suspicious of are tables,
pictures, numbered lists, indexes etc: any "complex" structure.
Hope this helps
I have a pretty large doc (171 pages; 3.5M; lots of pictures) that I want to
convert to PDF. All goes well until tags are generated on page 171 and then
Word / Acrobat hangs. I have tried more than one computer to do this, and
get the same result. Do I have to split my doc up first? Thanks.
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