Converting Pdf To Word Doc For Free

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I normally convert Word documents to PDF, but lately, many of the converted PDF documents are missing huge chunks of the text that should have transferred over from Word. There are random missing lines, random missing titles, etc. Image 1 is the Word document with all of the lines; Image 2 is the PDF with line "Unit 3" totally missing!

Converting Pdf To Word Doc For Free

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I've gone in and checked under Adobe DC -- Edit > Preferences > Accessibility and "Replace Document Colors" is already unchecked. I am using Calibri 11 font, so the font is normal. None of these areas of text are tables - just plain font/text like the lines above them had been.

What the HECK is going on!?! How do you just get Word and PDF to connect seamlessly again? This is a HUGE problem because in lengthy documents, you don't even realize when a line or two hasn't properly saved from your typed Word document to the converted PDF. Thanks for any help or advice you can provide!

First off, if you did use "Save as PDF," Acrobat is not at fault here because that means that the OS did the PDF conversion. If you used "Save as Adobe PDF," than it was Acrobat's fault. Please check on that.

2nd issue: Exactly which version of Acrobat are you using. Because you state "Save as PDF," I'm going to assume you're on a Mac because on a PC, the wording is a bit different. Please verify. But, are you using Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Pro? (Adobe doesn't help because lately they are just referring to Acrobat, not giving you the full answer without some digging.)

First - I use the "Save as Adobe PDF" from the main Word File Options (screenshot below). That's the button I've always preferred to use, and since it specifies Abobe, I do not think it is my OS doing the conversion?

Interestingly, I just tried to make a quick copy of the Word document for you to mess with, and in cutting/pasting the text, whatever formatting was causing the error has somehow disappeared. So, I went back into my original Word document, cut/paste that section without any of the formatting, and saved the document. Then, I clicked "Save as Adobe PDF" again, and it converted the "Unit 3" troubled line entirely correctly.

Regardless of this one success, there is some internal programming error with certain lines in Microsoft Office (via formatting or whatever) that is causing a glitch for the "Save as Adobe PDF" perfect transfer. It happened in another syllabus earlier this semester - it didn't properly convert whole chunks of my syllabus correctly. So, this isn't an obvious error or formatting issue on the user end, and users cannot be expected to "cut/paste without formatting" whole sections of Word documents that aren't converting correctly. This isn't a good workaround, although it is one I will try and use again if it comes up as an issue again.

Hey, I want to thank you for letting me know that PCs do that both the "Save as PDF" and "Save as Adobe PDF." Recently someone else in these forums said that that didn't exist on PCs, they were seeing "Print to PDF." (My ignorance of the PC system is profound.)

Adobe has a strange relationship with name: They want to make it as hard as possible for those of us in the forums trying to help people. Back in the old days the products were clearly marked as Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Standard, and Acrobat Pro. Now, as you've pointed out, you're seeing Adobe Acrobat DC (where's the Pro???).

Anyhow, a few more questions: Do you have your preferences (just to the right of "Create PDF" set to have the Word document be converted in the Clouds or in your computer? Whichever you have it set for, try the other one.

I have a Word 2007 document (docx), with inserted JPGs. If the text wrapping of the images is set to anything but "in line with text", the images do not appear in the PDF file created from the docx. I have tried many different combinations of Acrobat preferences (image compression on or off; standard vs. high quality print; different DPI settings; etc.). This appears to be a new problem, as I have converted many Word docx's with images to PDFs in the past. A document that I converted to PDF a year ago no longer converts properly! I'm running Windows 7 Pro and using Acrobat Pro X. Office 2007 has SP3 (and I suspect that's the problem). Has anyone else had the problem, and, if so, found a fix?

I solved the problem, which had misleading features. Somehow, in Word Options --> Display, Print drawings created in Word got checked off. Now the pictures come out fine. The misleading part is that images inserted from files would be incorporated into the PDF if they were text-wrapped as inline!

If found a workaround this morning that will only work as long as my XP is still running. I converted the docx to doc, took it to another PC running XP / AA Pro 7.0 / Word 2003. The conversion worked fine. So, the problem is somewhere in the match between Word 2007 and AA Pro X. I haven't tried a system restore to last week, before SP3 was installed for Office 2007.

Side note that has a small chance of being relevant. On the older PC, I had to redo all the figure positioning in Word, even though the view of the doc (vs. docx) version in Word 2007 was fine. Word fought me every inch of the way, as it does on positioning images in any version; it kept changing my absolute positioning until I did the positioning twice. It may be that the encoding of image positioning in Word 2007 (and with SP3) is no longer fully understood by AA Pro X, or even by Word 2003.

4) The positioning issue is the reflow option that is the default in OFFICE 2003 and most word processors. In WORD 2007, MS turned the option off by default. The option I am referring to is buried down in a list of prior compatibility listings and refers to the use of printer metrics. The default for most word processors is to reflow a document when a different printer is attached to optimize the printer performance. This is one of the major differences between word processors and layout programs like InDesign. I am sure there are lots of other differences, but this is one that a lot of uses of word processors are not aware of. I often get WORD forms that don't work right because of the printer I have installed versus the one the form author had installed. Typically, I lose the bottom of the page or such due to this reflow issue.

In all 3 (or, really, 4) cases, the images were lost. Please let me know if any of these options comprise the reflow options. Please note also that I'm not trying to print the document, as I think you realize; I want to create email-able PDFs that have positioned images, as I have always been able to do in the past.

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I am converting a word file into a pdf. Word version is 2016. I need to have hyperlinks active (References to sections, figures, etc.)I use Export - Create a PDF/XPS Document and Optimized for Standard. I have references to figures and tables completely working, but references to sections don't work. In the Table of Content, I cannot click on the page numbers. What can be done to have links to sections working?

And another answer, but since nobody wrote it yet:In my PDF no links worked until I deleted all internal links to other places in the doc, like footnotes. Once I deleted all internal links the http-links worked again. Be aware: one single link breaks the whole document!

I download my school notes from their website but all of the notes are either in word or powerpoint format. How do I configure my computer to automatically convert these to pages and keynote so they open in those programs (if this is possible)? I use Google Chrome as my browser if that helps any.

Highlight a known Word document in the Finder, highlight it & choose Get Info from the File menu. In the Get Info box, click the triangle next to "Open With." Click on this drop-down menu & choose Pages. If Pages is not a choice, choose "Other" & navigate to the Pages application. Now click the "Change" button under the text that asks if you want to open all documents like this with Pages. You can then double-click the Word documents & they will open in Pages. Note that the icon for the Word files will have a plain, white icon. Repeat with a PowerPoint document & change to Keynote.

This modifies the app to be open with, is not their conversion, which must be done within Pages itself, and Keynote respectively. These files cannot be converted directly, I do not know such a converter, as in the beautiful days of classic Mac OS.

o our colleague asked a method to CONVERT the files directly, before opening in Pages, so I warned him/her that conversion is not possible otherwise than WITHIN Pages / Numbers, i.e. after opening the files and importing them using the internal pasring engine of the application.