[Hidden-tech] PDF creation problem from Mac

[Lynne Rudié]

I don't know all that much about Word but I do make all kinds of pdf  
files on the mac all the time. I would recommend using acrobat as your  
printer rather than using Word's built-in conversion to acrobat. It  
works most of the time, but the larger your file the more likely it is  
to choke on something that wouldn't be a problem in a smaller file.
	Have you tried using acrobat to print the file into postscript and  
then distilling the postscript file into acrobat? It will make a  
totally huge postscript file but if it distills, it will get smaller  
again.
	You might start with Annamarie's suggestion and print the file to  
acrobat in smaller sections. When you are able to isolate the exact  
part of the file that is giving you the problem, print those pages to  
postscript and then distill it to acrobat. If it won't distill, it  
will create a log file that gives you the reason it has failed to  
produce a pdf file. The reason won't be excessively descriptive but it  
might help.
	The other thing is that, in my experience, the problems I encounter  
are more often than not font-related. Are you using any trutype  
fonts?  Trutype will behave like a "regular" font in Word and print on  
your desktop printer just fine, but will not distill into acrobat.  
Usually a trutype font will default to something else and look funny,  
but in a very large document it may just be disrupting the process. If  
that is the case, see if there is an opentype font you can use as a  
substitute.
	If you are able to get your whole document converted to a number of  
smaller pdf files, you can open the first one and use the "import  
pages" function in acrobat to bring the rest of the files into one. I  
would recommend saving the file in between imports.
	Good luck, I'd love to hear what actually fixes the problem.
	Lynne


Lynne Rudié
Graphic Design
413.863.9406
413.834.0889 (c)
lynnerudie at verizon.net

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.
>
> Stacy
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