Hey Jim. Yes the paper size is 8.5 x 22. I'll try to explain my logic in doing it that way.



I never create documents for printing, I create them for my own use to view electronically so I set the paper length as long as possible to reduce the number of pages. I use section breaks at the end of every page so I have better control of page breaks. For example, say there's a picture that's too big for the end of page 1, I move it to page 2 and create a section break at the end of page 1. Then I readjust the paper size for that section so it cuts off the empty space at the end of page 1. Normally Word would just move the picture to page 2 and leave the space at the end of page 1. So what I end up with are pages that are different lengths. Another reason is so I have a little leeway if later I need to go back and enter something I forgot. I can just adjust one section instead of the whole document shifting.

This could be what's causing the problem, I don't know. If there's a better or easier way I'd change, but at this point it's the best way I know of for what I want to do.

What happens if you remove the MS Add-In? Only do this if you can add it back in. Again, my Word converts to pdf fine without the Add-In.

I actually did uninstall the MS PDF Add-in and Kutools for Word this time before installing Acrobat, but it didn't seems to make any difference.

You have Enterprise and I have Office Home and Student. That might be the difference.

Charles, when you convert to a PDF on yours, if you copy the text from the PDF and paste it to Word, Wordpad, etc., does the text have spaces in the middle of words? That's the problem I'm having with mine.

I found a trial version of Acrobat 9 and got it installed. At first it worked like 11, leaving out graphics. Then I remade the document by copying and pasting and now Acrobat's working perfectly even with all my unusual formatting. I'm not sure how or why, I'm just glad it seems to be working.

It was the PDF Printer all along! When I was creating a new document I kept getting a warning every time I changed a page length, "some of the margins are outside the printable area." So after a little trial and error I figured out I could just delete the printer form Printer and Faxes and just like that, problem solved. I still have the PDF Creator drivers so I can convert to PDF. Everything's working beautifully.

Dang, I started celebrating too soon. Now it's back to leaving spaces in the PDF text. I'm doing something really wrong. I'll just have to play with this thing awhile and try to figure it out.

No. It does not have extra spaces when pasted from PDF to Word. I do not know that there is not something different in the Enterprise Version of Office, but I doubt it.

I recall there was litigation at some point between Adobe and MS about them including the pdf conversion but that was resolved. I know that the versions of Office 2010 and 2013 include the same feature, again without any Add-In program.

My version of Word is:
12.0.6690.5000 SP3 MSO 12.6683.5000
if that matters.

I just tried it with 8.5x22 and had no problems copying from pdf text to Word.

Well I solved part of it. I manually typed some of the paragraphs where I was getting problems and when I saved as PDF they came out perfectly. Some of the text I use to create Word documents is pretty rough, usually PDFs with not very good OCR so this is the problem with the text it would seem.

Acrobat completely fixes all the text errors, now I wish I could figure out why it's not printing graphics correctly.

I tried to install Acrobat 8 again. Install seemed okay, no errors. I installed the "Full Program." I used the provided serial #, then after installed it prompted me to download an e-license which I did successfully. But I couldn't register, it kept saying "no connection" but I had a connection and firewall was disabled.

It's not integrating with Word though. There's no Acrobat link in the Word interface, and when I try to open a Word document with Acrobat it says "Missing PDF Creator files."

My version of Word is 100% legit, bought it myself, so that shouldn't be an issue.

You can simply choose the 'Never Register' option. Since Adobe's no longer producing updates for it, registration is of no consequence. That said, you can download the updates to bring it up to 8.3.1 from:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...atform=Windows
Did you uninstall your other Adobe Acrobat Pro version first?

Also, have you tried repairing the Office installation (via Start > Windows Control Panel > Programs > Programs & Features > Microsoft Office (version) > Change)?

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Hey macropod.

No, no other versions of Acrobat. When I installed 8 I started with a clean slate by restoring a backup image I made before installing any versions of Acrobat. But for whatever it's worth, when I did install Acrobat 11 Pro yesterday it integrated with Word. That's why I think it's an issue with 8.

I don't think I want to run repair on Word. I have it exactly like I want it and repair I believe would demolish everything. I'll have to think long and hard before I do that. If I can't get 8 to work I'll probably just install 11 and set about figuring out how to use it.

I did run repair a couple of times on 8 this morning but it didn't fix the missing PDF Creator files.

No, it doesn't. A repair has absolutely no effect on settings, documents, etc.

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Still I don't want to risk it if I can just install Acrobat 11. I originally thought there was something wrong or incompatible with 11, that's why I wanted to try another version. But now I don't think that's the case; it's probably the way I've formatted my Word documents or some settings in Acrobat I need to change. I experimented a little yesterday with shorter page lengths in Word and Acrobat didn't seem to have any trouble saving all the graphics. Granted it's not a whole document but it's a good sign. If worse comes to worse I can always just insert the missing graphics into a PDF with Acrobat. I was hoping it wouldn't come to that, but...