Convert document into .pdf without compression

Question

Office 2007 operating system Windows 7

Is it possible to convert a Word document into a .pdf without compression?

Answer 1

So by 'compression' you mean the font shrinks? Compression refers to a reduction graphic quality, not font size.

I’d suspect that the underlying style uses 11.5pt and the document has had manual direct formatting applied to make it 12pt. Check the font characteristics for the styles.

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We are using Adobe Acrobat ver. 8.1.3 to convert the Word 7 document. We have also tried saving it directly to .pdf with Word 7.  These documents are converted and submitted to the government as part of a regulatory obligation and the problem is when converting them from .doc to .pdf the fonts change from being a 12 point font to 11.5 point font.  It has nothing to do with pictures, and the 12 point font is critical to compliance.

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Terry Farrell

Answer 2

I'm not sure if this would work, but have you tried bumping the Word doc's font size up to 12.5 to see if Acrobat will distill it at 12 points?

Answer 3

We are using Adobe Acrobat ver. 8.1.3 to convert the Word 7 document. We have also tried saving it directly to .pdf with Word 7.  These documents are converted and submitted to the government as part of a regulatory obligation and the problem is when converting them from .doc to .pdf the fonts change from being a 12 point font to 11.5 point font.  It has nothing to do with pictures, and the 12 point font is critical to compliance.

Answer 4

What type of compression are you talking about and what is the problem with it? And also, how are you generating the pdf (Word save as, Adobe add-in, third party printer, ...)

If the quality of your converted images is bad make sure you use source images of a decent quality which have no transparent parts and which are preferably scalable.

Answer 5

Raw postscript or .pdf formats can be created with the old Ghostscript tools. Ghostscript is an open-source interpreter for the PostScript language and the PDF file format distributed under the GNU General Public License. See,

Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

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