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Spaces missing when exporting PDF to MSFT Word

2010-08-28 09:46:29

nstramer

Registered: Aug 28 2010

Posts: 1

Answered

Hi Experts,

I have a PDF document that was created on a UNIX system using DVIPDF .
I am using Acrobat PRO 9.0 (on WIN7) and when exporting/saving the file as a MSFT word file, I get a word file in which a lot of spaces/blanks between words are missing. I can see 3 or 4 words combined together to one long meaningless word. Any idea how to solve this issue?

Thanks,

Naftaly

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Windows

2010-08-29 05:49:57

daka630

Registered: Mar 1 2007

Posts: 1420

It may be that DVIPDF is not providing an appropriate character for spacing between words.

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2011-10-07 08:41:13

DanOblak

Registered: Oct 7 2011

Posts: 1

I don't know whether this is helpful in your particular case(considering the time passed since this thread), but I feel compelled to note that seems a lot like the Office 2007 installation is not fully updated. There is a patch that was included in Office 2007 Service Pack 2 that resolves the same symptoms when 2007 is used to read files from Office 2010, or sometimes when they are copied from or opened in 2007 from, web pages: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/02/24/addressing-word-2007-docx-compatibility-and-missing-spaces.aspx