Not completely accurate, Art. The weakest PDF tool is PDFWriter, which is not an issue here. Both PDFMaker and the Adobe PDF printer instance are installed as part of the Adobe Acrobat tool suite, and both of them use Acrobat Distiller (although they do it "under the hood" or "behind the curtain"). The advantage of the PDFMaker tool is that it preserves at least some of the hyperlinks from the Word file, although those are often the features that cause the kind of problem Tammy reported. But there is no significant difference between printing to file using the Adobe PDF driver and then explicitly distilling versus simply printing to the Adobe PDF printer and letting it automatically pipe the PostScript to Distiller.
And it's generally bad advice to recommend the use of any printer driver other than the Adobe PDF driver when you're making PDF. For one thing, that's the single most common cause of losing colors in the PDF. My opinions only; I don't speak for Intel. Fred Ridder (fred dot ridder at intel dot com) Intel Parsippany, NJ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Word to PDF Well, your methodology is using the two weakest .pdf tools. If you have Distiller, print the Word file to a PostScript printer and specify "print to file." Then distill it manually to see if that helps. Also, the Adobe Acrobat user forum on the Adobe site would probably have some helpful info. Art On 1/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Windows XP > Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0 > MS Word 2002 > > Inherited a Word doc with 143 pages, 2.99 MB that I need to convert to > PDF. I have done a Save As and renamed to preserve the original and ensure > that I know it is a Word 2002 doc that I am working with. I have done > everything I know in my power to get this sucker to convert to a PDF > -Wwithin Word using both PDFMaker and the Adobe PDF Printer. I have also > tried from within Adobe Acrobat and no matter what I do, barf, crash, bang > . .. I cannot get this document to convert. I get the classic error > message about flushing offending stack and not producing the PDF. > > What should I be looking for/troubleshooting in this otherwise fruitless > endeavor? -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/fred.ridder%40intel. com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
