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How do I convert btw Word/PDF w/o causing font/spacng issues

Apr 9, 2015 4:49AM PDT

Hi everyone,

I am trying to convert Adobe Acrobat X Standard PDFs to Microsoft Word 2010 and vice versa without causing any font/spacing issues. In the new document, there are cases where it will say a word is in the same font and size as the rest of the document, but still looks different. Any idea on how to ensure that the font and spacing looks the same as the original?

Thanks,

Jon

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Re: convert
Apr 9, 2015 5:02AM PDT

A Word to pdf conversion is rather simple: either File>Save as ... pdf or use a pdf-printer like cutepdf. If you see differences between the two: choose the one you like most.

pdf to Word is more difficult, especially if it's made by OCR from a scan and not directly saved from Adobe Acrobat or Pdf Creator or Word. Then some post-conversion edit usually is needed.
But remember pdf is meant to make documents to read or print, not as documents to edit in MS Word. A lot of information for that is missing from the pdf.

Kees

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Thanks
Apr 9, 2015 7:32AM PDT

Thank you. Do you have any idea how to prevent text from being cut off as a result of the conversion? For example, the letter "g" in my document has the lower portion cut off.

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I'm using DoPDF to create my PDFs.
Apr 9, 2015 7:48AM PDT

All the letter g's look find here. Did you try other PDF creators?
Bob

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Re: cut-off
Apr 9, 2015 5:29PM PDT

That's rather vague, as long as you don't tell if it's a result of a pdf-to-word or a word-to-pdf conversion, if OCR is in play, and how (with what program) you did it.

Kees