Graphics in Word

Not sure if this is where your problem lies, but you might check a few things. First off, don't paste any graphics in Word or other authoring progrtams. The pasted graphics are converted to Windows Metafile documents.

If you instered the graphics via a menu command, use the Print Preview to display a preview of the printed pages. If errors are displayed in the preview, you're likely to see the same errors in the resultant PDF document.

Be sure to use the PDF Maker (Windows) or Print to PDF (Macintosh) when convertting to PDF.

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Yes, I inserted the graphics via Word "Insert" command, but you're right that the Print Preview displays the same errors. I must solve this problem in Word before converting, obviously.

Again, I don't understand your advice to "Be sure to use the PDFMaker." No such program on my system, only Acrobat 8 Pro and Acrobat Distiller.

I just updated to version 9. About 10% of my graphics have either black bars across them or parts of the graphic are rotated/copied. I am using Word 2007 and Acrobat Pro 9 via the Print to PDF button in Word using Press quality. Help!

Some updates: Bars on the jpg graphics - save Word doc as docx (2007 format). Now jpg graphic look fine.

wmf graphics - still some of them (not all, just some) are still scrambled or parts missing or offset. If I insert the graphic into a new document - pdf file looks great. Converting the graphics to png and inserting into orginal document also fixed. This is not an option though - I have 1000's of wmf files in 1000's of documents. Redoing all of them is not going to happen.

Final solution - convert the document in Acrobat 8. All graphics look and print fine. So, now have to figure out how to downgrade. Hopefully Adobe will adress this, but I am not holding my breath.

Can you post some test files where the images are not correctly preserved?

Sorry - but the files are company protected data and rather large. All my documents were written using Word 2003. Now that I switched to Office 2007, I'm wondering if this is some type of Word conversion error? I tried several other documents with the same results - it randomly picks some graphics to scramble. Some are very subtle errors - a missing line or two, other are all over the page.

Can't say much without looking at the images. If the images look fine in print preview of Word, they should come out correctly in PDF too.

I agree - if it looks and prints fine in Word, then Acrobat should not have any problems. If I go through and replace the problem graphics with emf files rather then wmf, then works OK. But, that is not an option over the long haul as it would add too much work load to replace all graphics.

I had filled out a bug report through Adobe's site - they have acknowledged that this is a bug and will have a patch available "soon". Fingers crossed!