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Hello,
I am using MS Word to create a business manual that is currently 57 pages in length. As I have worked on it, I occasionally used the "Save as Adobe PDF" feature to preview the document in that format. However, this feature stopped working once I surpassed about 40 pages. Specifically, after I select "Save as Adobe PDF," the PDFMaker progress window pops up, the progress bar gradually reaches completion, and the window closes without producing a PDF. No error message displays. I made a copy of the original document, deleted about 20 pages, then ran "Save as Adobe PDF" again. The feature worked and generated a PDF. I went back to my original 57-page document and tried again to no avail.
The document contains simple, monochromatic vector images on each chapter page, but the rest of it is simply text. The size of the 57-page MS Word file is 1.0MB, which does not seem particularly large.
If anyone has any insight into why this is happening and/or can provide a solution, I would certainly appreciate it. Thank you.
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I have used the Adobe add-in to PDF Word documents of many hundreds of pages, with hundreds of images and footnotes.
Save as Adobe PDF appears whenever you have installed Adobe Acrobat and allowed the Add-In. I do not know if this Add-In has a page limit.
If you use the regular Save As dialog and choose .pdf as the file type in Word I know of no page limitation.
Likewise if you use Print and choose the Microsoft Print to PDF printer driver.
When trying to diagnose Word problems, it often helps to turn on the invisible formatting characters (File>Options>Display>Show all formatting marks).
Alternatives you can try to see if you get a better result:
File>Print>Adobe PDF
File>Print>Microsoft Print to PDF
The overlapping letters is probably a font problem. Changing fonts to a common font like Calibri may solve that.
There is most likely something in your document around page 40 that Acrobat is not able to parse. If you can upload your document to a cloud service, then post a share link here, I can take a look to see if I can identify what that is.
You mention Save as Adobe PDF, which normally appears only in Word for Mac. Can you verify you are using Word for Windows?
You mention PDFMaker, which suggests that you are using Adobe Acrobat to create files instead of saving from Word as PDF. Please try other methods of creating a PDF, to see if that solves the problem. Once I know whether you are using Windows or macOS, I can offer more specific suggestions.