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First - what versions of Word and Acrobat do you have (if I don't ask,
someone else will)?
The Make PDF button in Word takes so much time because it's doing a lot more
than the print PDF feature. The print feature just gives you visual without
any functionality - you get an electronic printed page. PDF Maker for Word
allows you to incorporate some of your document's functionality into the
PDF. For example, if you have links or cross-references, they'll be
functional in the PDF (they won't if you just print). Before creating the
PDF using PDF Maker, go to the Conversion Settings from the Acrobat
drop-down and do some exploring - you can probably turn some of the
functions off to make it go faster.
Also (and someone else might have more info on this), some graphic formats
can hose up the conversion process. I had trouble with some EPS graphics a
few years ago that was traced back the way my illustrator's version of
Illustrator handled gradients.
Hope this helps,
-Karen
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Ladonna Weeks
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Subject: Adobe Acrobat question
Hello,
I have one document (an installation guide) that has to be printed and I
have to convert it to .pdf for the people who get it printed. I don't know
Acrobat very well because I rarely use it and the online help is so
extensive it's hard to find answers there.
The document is a Word document, about 130 pages with lots of images and if
I try to convert it to .pdf either by using the PDF button in Word or by
opening it in Acrobat, it hogs all my system resources and after 10 minutes,
I start getting memory problems and other alarming errors. I've never had
the patience to let it attempt to complete.
On the other hand, while the document is open in Word, if I print it to
"Adobe PDF" it converts it in less than a minute with no problems.
I am curious what the difference is between the various approaches. My
theory is that printing to "Adobe PDF" uses Distiller rather than the
regular PDF converter (whatever that is called). If that is true, what am I
losing using Distiller? If it is not the case, why is it working the one way
and not the other ways?
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