Word to pdf problem - some pages dark

[Tony Burton]

I have converted a large Word doc (book of 156 pages text & graphics) to pdf through the print to
pdf command. Everything looks okay except for three of the pages which look darker. On enlarging and
comparing with a good page, the text on the "bad" pdf pages appear to be stretched out horizontally
by a pixel or so and has a slightly fuzzy aspect.

Has anyone seen this pdf conversion problem before and have a fix?

My doc is supposed to be going to the printer tomorrow so a quick response would be most welcome!

 

[Phillip Jones]

I don't have an answer as to why.

But I have a possible work around. The work around depends upon you
having Acrobat Pro 7 or 8.


locate the individual pages and recreate individual pages and make
individual pdf's of the pages.

next open the pdf's just created and see if they look normal. If so do
the following.

open original pdf and locate first bad page.

go to document menu and locate add replace pages.

choose desired replacement and choose replace. answer yes (click
continue) to box comes up do you wish to replace page ... with ... .

the old page will be replaced with the new information.

Repeat for the next two pages.

I have converted a large Word doc (book of 156 pages text & graphics) to pdf through the print to
pdf command. Everything looks okay except for three of the pages which look darker. On enlarging and
comparing with a good page, the text on the "bad" pdf pages appear to be stretched out horizontally
by a pixel or so and has a slightly fuzzy aspect.

Has anyone seen this pdf conversion problem before and have a fix?

My doc is supposed to be going to the printer tomorrow so a quick response would be most welcome!

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Never heard of this, but it may be worth googling in case someone has
written about it--I'd search both with and without Word as a keyword.

Is there anything different about the three pages which look darker?
Font change, certain type of graphics, etc, etc, etc--whatever
characteristics you can think of that a) the three pages have in common,
and b) might have triggered different behavior.

*What* looks darker about the PDF? the text, the background, etc?

Have you tried re-doing the Print to PDF in case it was a one-off problem?

Have you printed a dark page and a regular page to see how the
difference prints out?

What version of Word and OS?

While waiting for posts here, you might google for some pages on
optimizing the OS X Print to PDF system. There are all sorts of things
you can tweak, and one of them might make a difference.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It's possible that since Acrobat uses a different method of PDF
conversion (I think), that just creating the PDFs via Acrobat would fix
the problem without the reshuffling necessary.

However, if creating a single page creates a better PDF than doing the
whole document (and I don't know why it would, but it's probably worth
trying), then you don't need Acrobat to reorganize the pages--the
program CombinePDF would do it for free, I think. Make sure the page
breaks stay exactly the same when trying the "recreate single page" method.

 

[Tony Burton]

Is there anything different about the three pages which look darker?

Font change, certain type of graphics, etc, etc, etc--whatever
characteristics you can think of that a) the three pages have in common,
and b) might have triggered different behavior.

This appears to be "funny" only when looking at these pages in Acrobat 7. When I open the pdf in
Preview the page looks and prints okay (I don't know how it looks printing from Acrobat because
recently I get print errors trying to print any pdf - but that's another problem I'm trying solve).

I did make a pdf just of one of the offending pages. The funny thing was that when I opened the page
in Acrobat it appeared okay just for an instant and then immediately flashed to this darker state.
The whole text including the headers and footers are affected. The page does have a tif graphic on
it but so do many other unaffected pages.

I have Office Word 11.3.3 running on OSX 10.3.9.

To Daiya: I could send you a pdf of the facing pages to illustrate what I'm seeing. Let me know.

Thanks for the help.