Why does Acrobat hate my .doc's?

October 5, 2006 3:14 PM

AcrobatFilter: I'm trying to create a PDF out of a word document but when Acrobat runs the job no file is created and I receive no error messages. What is the deal?

I'm trying to create a PDF file from a word document. When I tell acrobat which file to use and then hit create the job runs (very briefly I see a % bar pop up and disappear) and then the program just sits there responsive and fully functional. Now, I don't have a problem creating a PDF from a web page but the problem is if I convert this particular document to a web page I'll loose my header and footer and I don't feel like hand coding that into the web page to match already printed documents. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

posted by SteveFlamingo to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Just use CutePDF (a printer driver any windows program can print to, which "prints" a PDF) or Open Office, the MS Word replacement.
posted by orthogonality at 3:16 PM on October 5, 2006

I've seen this happen before. You might try opening the document in Word, then choosing File/Print and choosing "Acrobat PDF" from the drop down list of printers.
posted by Otis at 3:20 PM on October 5, 2006

Thanks orthogonality, CutePDF did the job.
posted by SteveFlamingo at 3:27 PM on October 5, 2006

Just for the record, PDF995 is doing a great job for me.
posted by rom1 at 3:37 AM on October 6, 2006