Conveting to PDF

[Niresangwa]

There really isn't a great place to put this, but I figure those that have an idea would hang out here...

So I'm updating informational documents to send to prospective clients after they send an inquiry.

Up until now, I've simply used text documents, but now want to include small images for visual appeal.

So, I created the document in MS Word, got the images inserted, it looks great, just as I want it to...

I then went to print to .PDF, and though the formatting and text is great, logo is fine, the images are coming out partially pixelated, (some of the image looks fine, others don't).

These are the steps I've taken, to no degree of success:

*Resize the images to the appropriate size
*Converted the images to both .BMP and .TIFF
*Tried various quality settings

I"m using Primo PDF to convert the document... any other ideas?

[IABoomer]

While I haven't necessarily had the issue you're running into, I've found Bullzip to be a good home/small-business PDF converter with a lot of flexibility should you need it. It couldn't hurt to try a different application.

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Otherwise, perhaps there's some kind of quality setting in Primo that determines how it converts images? Or, there could possibly be some craziness going on in the way Word handles the images that are inserted into documents that's causing the problem?

[RLucas]

A while back there were some issues with image degredation if anything but jpg's were inserted. So try converting to jpg first. The acrobat reader wasn't handling transparencies very well. They looked ok printed, but on the monitor, they were badly pixelated, and resizing it made it worse.

[kcoppock]

My first suggestion would be to not use Word for anything involving images. That said, skip Primo, and download the Save as PDF or XPS plugin from Microsoft here. This is assuming you're on Office 2007. If you're on 2010, PDF saving functionality should be built in. If you're on a previous version...good luck.

[Niresangwa]

Originally Posted by kcoppock

My first suggestion would be to not use Word for anything involving images. That said, skip Primo, and download the Save as PDF or XPS plugin from Microsoft here. This is assuming you're on Office 2007. If you're on 2010, PDF saving functionality should be built in. If you're on a previous version...good luck.

LOL... this goes to show how often I actually do use MS Word. I didn't even know it had the functionality to save as a .pdf.

That actually solved the issue immediately, thanks! Thanks to Luke and Boomer for the thoughts as well!

[kcoppock]

Haha, glad you got it working. For what we do here at work, that feature is a godsend. I'd go absolutely crazy without it.