Michael, I went the other way and downgraded Word to 2000. Worked like = a charm. Plus the bugs I ran into in Word were ones I know how to work = around (images, numbered lists and styles seem to be worse than ever in newer versions of Word) :) =20 I had tried updating Acrobat, it did nothing for that particular issue. Ditto for turning off background printing. *shrug* In my experience, at times all one can do is shudder, esp. when using = Word too much :) - Naomi -----Original Message----- From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Edward Granat Sent: Monday, 1 March 2004 11:24 AM To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: atw: Re: Tip for creating PDFs Dear Naomi (Kramer), First make sure that you have the Acrobat 5.05 patch (you can do Web = based=20 updates from the Acrobat). From Acrobat 5 proper, not the Reader: Edit > Preferences > General (or = Ctrl+K) > Update, then click the Update Acrobat Now button. But, as far as I am aware, Windows XP and Office XP/2003 were released=20 after Acrobat 5 (which is copyright to 2001) so it is a bit hard for it = to=20 have been designed with that in mind. You can't very well ask for a two = year old application to work flawlessly with a later environment. Your best bet, if you are working with the latest is to, well, work with = the latest and go get Acrobat 6. Also, if you are working with Word, as it seems, turn off background=20 printing, which sucks system resources big time and only run Word and=20 Acrobat Distiller / Acrobat proper to use less RAM. Don't shudder, just upgrade. Hope that helps. Cheers, Michael Granat Write Ideas At 11:49 1/3/2004, you wrote: >Don't install Adobe Acrobat 5 on a system with Office XP/2003, then run = >the Distiller from the Acrobat toolbar in Word. > >*shudder* > >Small documents seem to work OK (they take forever, though). Large=20 >documents just... erm.. crawl off and die. Especially if they use=20 >bookmarks, cross referencing etc. > >- Naomi Michael Granat -- Write Ideas* Plain English Technical Communication. Advertising Copywriting. Business Writing. E-mail: writeideas@xxxxxxxx Web Site: <http://home.pacific.net.au/~megranat/> *Trading As business #0828673K Registered (1987) Corporate Affairs Victoria, Australia. WITHOUT PREJUDICE E & OE ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject = field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************** ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************