atw: Re: Word and PDFs
- From: Kath Bowman <Kath.Bowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:57:53 +0930
Hi Stuart, I solved the problem by using the earlier version of Word to create
the PDF. Thank you for your kind offer.
Regards
Kath Bowman
Technical Writer | Defence operations
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Tuesday, 18 June 2013 1:08 PM
To: Austechwriter
Subject: atw: Re: Word and PDFs
Hi Kath -
Perhaps opening the PDF in Acrobat and saving it again will scrub out any
flourishes added by Word 2010. If you don't have Acrobat then send me a sample
PDF and I'll do it. Or you could try another PDF writer.
Stuart
> I have just experienced a situation where a PDF created using
> Word 2010 could not be read on an old system by an early Adobe
> Reader. I ended up recycling the Word file through Word 2003 and
> creating the PDF through Word 2003 (with an Adobe plugin). The
> created PDF was a lot larger but could be read by the old system.
>
> When I created the PDF using Word 2010 there were few options,
> and nothing for backwards compatibility, although didn't look
> too far because I knew I had another way to produce the PDF.
>
> I suspect that the compression Word 2010 uses reduces
> compatibility with previous versions of Adobe Reader.
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