Guest Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 I'm writing a thesis in Word 2016, and it is about 68 pages now with 23xxx words. The file is in Strict Office OpenXML format, for maximum stability. But whenever I try to save the file as a PDF through Word, it ends up broken in some places. Heading might be missing, some text might be misaligned... I don't know what the problem is. Should I use something else to save into a PDF file? I tried the two PDF formats offered by Word, and they both come out broken, many times in completely random places. Anyone has a similar issue? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Eternal Tempest MVC Posted July 9, 2015 MVC Share Posted July 9, 2015 The beta of Office 2016 or the just released today RTM version of Mac Office 2016? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/#findComment-596919680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 The beta of Office 2016 or the just released today RTM version of Mac Office 2016? The preview of Office 2016 for Windows. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/#findComment-596919750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 The preview of Office 2016 for Windows. The preview of Office 2016 for Windows. Likely the PDFs appear "broken" due to their being created in an image-focussed program (such as Adobe Illustrator) - I don't have this issue with PDFs I've created myself in any version of Word (which has had the feature since 2010). I've even back-checked using Reader DC (the successor to Adobe Reader) and PDFs creatd in different programs CAN be different even in Reader DC - Reader DC can tell them apart; however, Word cannot. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/#findComment-596936294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Likely the PDFs appear "broken" due to their being created in an image-focussed program (such as Adobe Illustrator) - I don't have this issue with PDFs I've created myself in any version of Word (which has had the feature since 2010). I've even back-checked using Reader DC (the successor to Adobe Reader) and PDFs creatd in different programs CAN be different even in Reader DC - Reader DC can tell them apart; however, Word cannot. I'm just doing the Save As - PDF in Word. Nothing else. No pictures, no anything. Just pure text. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/#findComment-596936310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 I'm just doing the Save As - PDF in Word. Nothing else. No pictures, no anything. Just pure text. Do you have Reader DC? Compare PDFs created in Word 2016 to Word 2013-sourced PDFs; there may actually BE a difference in the PDF creation engine used. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/#findComment-596938206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Do you have Reader DC? Compare PDFs created in Word 2016 to Word 2013-sourced PDFs; there may actually BE a difference in the PDF creation engine used. Just tested with the latest Office 365, v16.0.4229.1004. Still happens. Don't have 2013 or any PDFs in it to compare. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/#findComment-596938552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted July 24, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted July 24, 2015 I haven't seen a similar issue so far. However, recently I had to prepare a 200-something page document for printing and preferred the output to be a PDF. I had to use a PDF printer (Bullzip) to do the export, since it allows some control over image compression (Word's PDF export applies unacceptably lossy compression to my images). Maybe using a PDF printer rather than the baked-in Export feature will be sufficient to solve your formatting issue (though of course it doesn't fix that Word is doing this in the first place). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/#findComment-596939372 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I haven't seen a similar issue so far. However, recently I had to prepare a 200-something page document for printing and preferred the output to be a PDF. I had to use a PDF printer (Bullzip) to do the export, since it allows some control over image compression (Word's PDF export applies unacceptably lossy compression to my images). Maybe using a PDF printer rather than the baked-in Export feature will be sufficient to solve your formatting issue (though of course it doesn't fix that Word is doing this in the first place). Tried the built-in PDF printer in Windows 10, still the same thing happens. I will try some alternatives like NitroPDF and whatever else I can find. It is not so much of a problem, but it is a master thesis after all, and I rather share a PDF file than a Word file. EDIT: I'll check out that Bullzip thing. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1263630-office-2016-saving-broken-pdfs/#findComment-596939380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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