Friday, January 6, 2012

Word to PDF

I'm using Word (I get it free through work) for the dungeon layout. I have it looking all swanky.

But when I use adobe to create a pdf it Fs with spaces here and there. It's frustrating.

Is there any rhyme or reason to this? Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks.

10 comments:

  1. From a web developer perspective, its like the difference in a webpage from IE to Firefox. Both measure just a tad differently; one from the outside border of a given element, the other from the inside border.

    Perhaps that is the same deal between Adobe and Microsoft.

    ReplyDelete
  2. It might be worth your time to download CutePDF or a similar program that allows you to "print" any document into a PDF, which you can then open with Adobe Acrobat.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thanks folks.

    I looked at the instructions on LuLu and they were quite helpful.

    Word>Save As>PDF>Options>ISO compliant>Good to GO

    ReplyDelete
  4. FYI, if you're set on sticking with MS Office to do design, I'd suggest that Powerpoint is leagues better than Word for many things. PPT has much less of a "layout AI" that tries to move things around to where it thinks you want them. Word is just horrible that way.

    ReplyDelete
  5. I find sometimes that instead of converting to pdf, you should print as pdf. This usually corrects the spacing problems that I've encountered from time to time.

    The Office program that I find the best to use for pdf is Publisher because you have a lot more tools in which you use to do your layouts and then when you convert to pdf it looks sweeeeeet.

    ReplyDelete
  6. We had that problem in my office until we all upgraded to Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Use the default MS W ord PDF creator in Word 2007/10... It seems to keep things in their right places

    ReplyDelete
  8. How about posting an example so that we can seewhat you're talking about?

    ReplyDelete
  9. I just want to second Sully up there about CutePDF. I've used it a good bit with my homebrew gaming booklets and the like--it preserves my Word formatting and image placement without mucking it all up.

    ReplyDelete
  10. I use PDFCreator to print to pdf from Word. It seems to work nicely, as long s you go to the Advanced settings and make it not print in a Europan size. I haven't upgraded to the newest version of the program though.

    ReplyDelete