[Hidden-tech] PDF creation problem from Mac

[Annamarie Pluhar]

That must be MOST annoying.  It sounds familiar.  You probably have some kind of corruption in your MS Word doc  (MS Word really doesn't like large docs!) It's telling you so! 

Some Ideas: 

1) Do you know about the trick to get rid of corruption by highlighting everything in your doc EXCEPT the very last pilcrow? Make sure you have View/Reveal Formatting on. HIghlight all, and then holding down your command key back space so the pilcrow is NOT highlighted. Copy and then paste in a new doc.   I think this technique is called a "Maggie" after the person who discovered it.

2) Preview is very nice for combining PDFs, so my workaround would be to PDF the pages that work in say batches of 20. Go from the front and from the back. Name your files Carefully!   And then recombine them in Preview. Painful, yes. But it might work.  See if you can isolate where the corruption is. 

I'd love to hear how it works out. Call me if you want. 



Annamarie Pluhar

Pluhar Consulting
http://www.pluharconsulting.com
802.451.1941
802.579.5975 (cell)



On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Stacy Kontrabecki wrote:

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> I have a 164 page report in MS Word for Mac 2011, compatibility mode. I 
> keep trying to make a PDF out of it using the standard "save as pdf" and 
> it does it fine for the first 50 pages, makes a 2nd file for next 16 
> pages and then a corrupt 3rd file for the balance.
> 
> Alternatives I've tried:
> 
> 1.) I installed CUPS-PDF to the Mac (OSC 10.6.8) and that didn't work 
> either - no PDF file where they said it would be created.
> 
> 2.) I have Acrobat 9 Pro but can't open the Word document with it to try 
> and make a PDF that way.
> 
> 3.) Tried to just print the last 97 pages to the "save as pdf" but 
> results in error message about the word file being corrupt.
> 
> In case you can just do the save fore me, I have the word file uploaded 
> to my website but the one person who tried to access it can't download 
> it. 295 MB. I don't know if that was why.
> 
> Thank you.
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> Stacy
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