Problems with saving/printing PDFs out of MS Word 2008

[evodevo]

Hi,
I have recently changed from MS Office 2004 to 2008 and have been
using the Print>Save as PDF command to create PDFs of a Word document.
This worked fine before, but now there are 2 problems: pictures in the
header and footer are not printed, and multiple pages are saved as
individual PDFs.
I have played with the print options and made sure that I print all
pages and that background images should be printed as well, but
nothing helps.
I would be grateful for any suggestions,
Gerrit

 

[John McGhie]

OK, three suggestions:

1) Make sure you have applied the 12.2.1 Update from Microsoft. If you
haven't applied the updates Office 2008 is "Bug City".

2) Make sure there is at least one character of text before the anchor of a
picture in the header. Word has a long-standing bug that keeps recurring
which prevents graphics printing in the header if they are the first
"character" in the header.

3) Don't use Section Breaks to create pages Word doesn't understand the
Mac Printing Subsystem and does not use it very well, so you will usually
get a new PDF for each section break in the document.

I hope this helps

Hi,
I have recently changed from MS Office 2004 to 2008 and have been
using the Print>Save as PDF command to create PDFs of a Word document.
This worked fine before, but now there are 2 problems: pictures in the
header and footer are not printed, and multiple pages are saved as
individual PDFs.
I have played with the print options and made sure that I print all
pages and that background images should be printed as well, but
nothing helps.
I would be grateful for any suggestions,
Gerrit

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