3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 5, 2010 5:41 AM by William LaMartin RSS

    Acrobat pages don't match original pages in Word Document

    William LaMartin Community Member

      In printing a 350 page Microsoft Word document with index to the Adobe PDF driver (Acrobat Pro 9.2), I note that the Acrobat document will have some pages than contain more lines than the original document. For example, text that might appear on page 159 in the Word document will appear on page 155 in the Acrobat document.

       

      Is there a way to make the pages in the Acrobat document match exactly the pages in Word?  When I print from InDesign to Acrobat I get a perfect match.

        • 1. Re: Acrobat pages don't match original pages in Word Document
          William LaMartin Community Member

          The problem is solved.

           

          In Word, I originally had the printer set to my default printer, an HP LaserJet.  When I changed that to Adobe PDF and let Word recalculate the pagination, the pages in the Word document matched the pages in the Acrobat document.  Furthermore, by deleting the index in the Word document and having Word recalculate and insert the index, the index now had correct pages to match the newly repaginated Word document.

           

          This is something I had forgotten.  Normally, I don't worry about whether the line count on a page in the original document is the same as the line count on the corresponding page in the Acrobat document. But, since there was an index involved, the discrepancy in page numbers was a problem.

           

          • 2. Re: Acrobat pages don't match original pages in Word Document
            Bill@VT CommunityMVP

            This is a common problem with WORD prior to OFFICE 2007. Office 2007 set the default to ignore printer metrics. You can go into the options menu in previous versions of WORD and select to not use printer metrics (it is in a long list of options and is not easy to find). Otherwise, setting the printer before printing editing is a good idea. Another option would be to make the Adobe PDF printer your default. Then you would print to PDF and from there to whatever printer you have - bit clunky, but a workaround.

            • 3. Re: Acrobat pages don't match original pages in Word Document
              William LaMartin Community Member

              Actually it occured in Word 2007.