The word file of my PhD thesis needs to be converted into a PDF. It contains lots of drawings of chemical structures created in ChemOffice. I copy and paste them in word where they are an embedded object: if I double click the structure, ChemOffice opens and I can edit these vector drawings.

Strangely, some figures are not printed when I print (to physical paper or using CutePDF write or acrobat distiller), whereas other figures that are created identical are fine.

It gives me quite a headache as I have literally hundreds of figures in my thesis and they can't just be omitted. Attached is a word file and two pdf's: one created with CuteDPF, the other created with the save as => pdf in word. The latter seems to work (haven't checked all 300+ pages), however, it rasterizes images and quality is lost.

Second: it seems that also acrobat distiller rasterizes these vector drawings, which is a pity due to file size and loss of quality. Is there a way to convert the word file into a descent pdf with all the vector information intact?

Attached Files

	sample.docx (140.9 KB, 10 views)
	created_using_cutePDF.pdf (107.5 KB, 9 views)
	word_save_as_pdf.pdf (207.7 KB, 10 views)