1 Reply Latest reply: Aug 7, 2010 7:00 AM by rproulxmtl RSS

    File Character Limit with Acrobat 9 Pro File Naming

    rproulxmtl Community Member

      I'm experienceing an issue that I'm sure was not there with previous versions of Acrobat. When printing a Word file with a long name to Acrobat (File->Print -> Adobe PDF) the original file name is being shortened and the end replaces by a series of "..."s.

       

      If I print a document named

       

      "The_Quick_Brown_Fox_Jumps_Over_The_Lazy_Dog_Sleeping_Under_The_Shadey_Tree.doc"

       

      it will be converted to Acrobat as

       

      "The_Quick_Brown_Fox_Jumps_Over_The_Lazy_Dog_Sleeping_Under….pdf"

       

      The original file's name is only 74 characters. I thought that Acrobat could create file names with up to 255 characters?

       

      Is there a setting I can modify to have Acrobat keep the original file's long name?

       

      I'm using Acrobat 9 Pro (part of the CS5 Suite) with Vista64.

       

      Thanks.

       

      Russell

        • 1. Re: File Character Limit with Acrobat 9 Pro File Naming
          rproulxmtl Community Member

          Solved: It appears to be a Microsoft Word issue as it doesn't occur with other apps. When using the built-in 'convert to PDF' tool within Word the file name length is respected. It's an older version of Word (Word 2002 SP3). I printed a file using the same name length with Wordperfect and it works fine.

           

          I know this isn't a Word help forum, but if anyone does have a solution to offer it would be appreciated :-)

           

          Russell