problems saving a word X doc as pdf

[d l roman]

I am having problems saving files in Word X as a pdf. I select the pdf
maker icon in my word program, the process begins but hangs up about
2/3 way through. I have tried both the pdf icon and the pdf & e-mail
icon. I have already checked my computer's pdf making abilities and
this is the only program I have a problem in. I own Acrobat both 5 & 6
pro but neither allow me to "create pdf from file" of any word
document.s (I mostly use the word portion of Office X, so I do not
know if excell and the other office programs also hang making pdfs.)
I would appreciate any and all ideas and suggestions. I have a mac
running OS 10.2.8.
Thank you.

 

[Elliott Roper]

I am having problems saving files in Word X as a pdf. I select the pdf
maker icon in my word program, the process begins but hangs up about
2/3 way through. I have tried both the pdf icon and the pdf & e-mail
icon. I have already checked my computer's pdf making abilities and
this is the only program I have a problem in. I own Acrobat both 5 & 6
pro but neither allow me to "create pdf from file" of any word
document.s (I mostly use the word portion of Office X, so I do not
know if excell and the other office programs also hang making pdfs.)
I would appreciate any and all ideas and suggestions. I have a mac
running OS 10.2.8.
Thank you.

The PDF maker icon has a poor reputation. You can't blame Word for it
unfortunately. It is one of Adobé's sub-optimal 'enhancements'. You
should upgrade your Mac to 10.3 (panther). You will then find a much
improved Preview, and the OS print dialog permits an improved 'output
options', which lets you select save as postscript file. The latter can
be eaten by distiller. It can also be eaten by Preview for avoiding the
Word bug that emits the preview instead of any eps illustration you may
have in your Word document when you try to save as PDF.

"You are in a maze of twisty passaages, all alike". It is amazing how
many different implementors have got this area of Mac OS X completely
wrong. Including Apple.

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, you will get these problems.

First off, Quit Word.

Now track down all instances of "PDFMaker.dot" on your computer and put them
in an archive. Give the archive a different name, so Acrobat can't find
them. (There should be at least two instances: the one in the Startup/Word
folder is the one doing the damage, but Acrobat has a toxic habit of putting
the damned thing back from its secret store!)

Now restart Word and the PDF and PDF and Email icons should be missing!
That's a great advance for science. The PDFMaker application seems to
create lots of problems, on either Mac or PC.

Now, create your PDFs using File>Print in Word. Choose "Adobe PDF" as the
"printer" and it should work.

However, Distiller will really grind if the document is full of fields. You
can "Flatten" the document first, by unlinking all the fields. Select all
the text in the document, then CMD + Shift + F9.

Hope this helps

I am having problems saving files in Word X as a pdf. I select the pdf
maker icon in my word program, the process begins but hangs up about
2/3 way through. I have tried both the pdf icon and the pdf & e-mail
icon. I have already checked my computer's pdf making abilities and
this is the only program I have a problem in. I own Acrobat both 5 & 6
pro but neither allow me to "create pdf from file" of any word
document.s (I mostly use the word portion of Office X, so I do not
know if excell and the other office programs also hang making pdfs.)
I would appreciate any and all ideas and suggestions. I have a mac
running OS 10.2.8.
Thank you.

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