Solve : Word .doc to .pdf?

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Answer» I am using CutePDF Writer to convert Word .doc to .pdf. One trial yielded the .pdf with all the changes made in editing the .doc I altered some of the Word Tools>Track changes settings and the resulting .pdf was essentially just blank pages. The Word .doc does not show the changes. The CutePDF Writer say it just prints the Word .doc so the problem must be in the settings I have in WordAs a test, can you try another Word file, something small, just for testing?I have done that with two other files. One was 17 pages long and had figures. Both were good. They had been edited in Word yet there was no sign of that in the .pdf version which was just what I expected. The one giving trouble is very long. I do not know if the settings in Word were any different Quote from: denisaf on July 07, 2008, 07:47:12 PM They had been edited in Word yet there was no sign of that in the .pdf version which was just what I expected. I'm not clear on what you MEAN by that statement. Whatever you see in a Word Print Preview pane is what your PFD document should look like. What does editing of the file in Word have to do with this? Do you expect to see something different than what Print Preview shows?The Print Layout View in Word of the .doc causing the problem does not show any of the editing that I have done. One of the .pdf versions shows the editing in red. The other, with CHANGED Word Track change settings shows only blank pages.I can't make any sense of this. Anyone else have some thoughts? If this word file is something you're at liberty to put a forum post, I will take a look at it. To attach a file, click on Additional Options at the bottom of the message composition panel and then click the Browse button to navigate to your file and attach it. Alternatively, you can send me or any forum member a PM (Private Message).I have tried a number of things since my last post. I converted a short .doc successfully even when I changed the Track Changes settings. I then shortened the offending .doc and tried and got blank pages again. So I reinstalled Office 2000 and this made no difference. The offending .doc is greater than 128 KB. It has occurred to me that the problem could be because the .doc has hyperlinks to web sites. HELP does not tell me how to disable these hyperlinks.I copied the start of the offending .doc and the successfully converted it to .pdf It ha a hyperlink and that was ok in the conversion. I went back to the original .doc and tried again. It again produced 600 pages, mostly blank. I copied the full offending .doc to a new Word file. Then I tried converting this Word .doc to .pdf and it worked! Somehow I had manged to corrupt the original .doc file and then copying it removed the fault.Thanks for posting the outcome. I think you did some good troubleshooting to resolve this. I've experienced a problem converting a Word document to PDF. I belong to a local church. Each month, the office manager emails the monthly newsletter to me in Word. I then convert it to PDF and upload it to the church website. The newsletter is usually 10 - 12 pages long and has a LOT of graphics in it. Like you, i used a freeware PDF converter. Initially, I used PrimoPDF but I discovered a problem with one newsletter where the PDF document created from the Word file has some blank space where some graphics should have appeared. I tried another PDF converter, called pdf995, and it worked; all the graphics appeared in the PDF, same as in the Word file. My point is that these freeware PDF converters may have some limitations in working with large Word files, especially those with certain features (hyperlinks, certain types of image files, etc.) embedded in the source file. In your case, you've determined the problem was a corrupt Word file. But, I thought I'd mention my experience with PDF converters. If you have a similar problem ARISE again, the choice of software for PDF conversion may be another point to include in your investigation.

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I am using CutePDF Writer to convert Word .doc to .pdf. One trial yielded the .pdf with all the changes made in editing the .doc I altered some of the Word Tools>Track changes settings and the resulting .pdf was essentially just blank pages. The Word .doc does not show the changes. The CutePDF Writer say it just prints the Word .doc so the problem must be in the settings I have in WordAs a test, can you try another Word file, something small, just for testing?I have done that with two other files. One was 17 pages long and had figures. Both were good. They had been edited in Word yet there was no sign of that in the .pdf version which was just what I expected. The one giving trouble is very long. I do not know if the settings in Word were any different Quote from: denisaf on July 07, 2008, 07:47:12 PM

They had been edited in Word yet there was no sign of that in the .pdf version which was just what I expected.

I'm not clear on what you MEAN by that statement. Whatever you see in a Word Print Preview pane is what your PFD document should look like. What does editing of the file in Word have to do with this? Do you expect to see something different than what Print Preview shows?The Print Layout View in Word of the .doc causing the problem does not show any of the editing that I have done. One of the .pdf versions shows the editing in red. The other, with CHANGED Word Track change settings shows only blank pages.I can't make any sense of this. Anyone else have some thoughts?

If this word file is something you're at liberty to put a forum post, I will take a look at it. To attach a file, click on Additional Options at the bottom of the message composition panel and then click the Browse button to navigate to your file and attach it. Alternatively, you can send me or any forum member a PM (Private Message).I have tried a number of things since my last post. I converted a short .doc successfully even when I changed the Track Changes settings. I then shortened the offending .doc and tried and got blank pages again. So I reinstalled Office 2000 and this made no difference. The offending .doc is greater than 128 KB. It has occurred to me that the problem could be because the .doc has hyperlinks to web sites. HELP does not tell me how to disable these hyperlinks.I copied the start of the offending .doc and the successfully converted it to .pdf It ha a hyperlink and that was ok in the conversion. I went back to the original .doc and tried again. It again produced 600 pages, mostly blank. I copied the full offending .doc to a new Word file. Then I tried converting this Word .doc to .pdf and it worked! Somehow I had manged to corrupt the original .doc file and then copying it removed the fault.Thanks for posting the outcome. I think you did some good troubleshooting to resolve this.

I've experienced a problem converting a Word document to PDF. I belong to a local church. Each month, the office manager emails the monthly newsletter to me in Word. I then convert it to PDF and upload it to the church website. The newsletter is usually 10 - 12 pages long and has a LOT of graphics in it. Like you, i used a freeware PDF converter. Initially, I used PrimoPDF but I discovered a problem with one newsletter where the PDF document created from the Word file has some blank space where some graphics should have appeared. I tried another PDF converter, called pdf995, and it worked; all the graphics appeared in the PDF, same as in the Word file.

My point is that these freeware PDF converters may have some limitations in working with large Word files, especially those with certain features (hyperlinks, certain types of image files, etc.) embedded in the source file. In your case, you've determined the problem was a corrupt Word file. But, I thought I'd mention my experience with PDF converters. If you have a similar problem ARISE again, the choice of software for PDF conversion may be another point to include in your investigation.

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