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I'm wondering who has tried and tested workflows for dealing with MS Word files to get usable PDFs for four colour print from them.
We're often getting Word files of unknown provenance. Sometimes they already reflow when we open them in Word 2004 on the Mac. The users are clearly not sophisticated ("oh, I want to start a new page ..." *sound of return key banging repeatedly*)
All the work has been black and white until now, so we have got away without Pitstop or pdfColorConvert ... but I will be telling my boss we absolutely need those in future in case colour jobs come in.
Our usual practice is to convert to grayscale in Acrobat and save as PDF-X/3 (we do this more to embed the fonts than for anything else).
We are still seeing bizarre behaviour of type when the job goes on the RIP. Things like bullet points disappearing; text that should be bold is not bold; kerning is all to pot causing lines of text to be strangely spaced out and longer than they should be. I'm inclined to think this is something to do with the fonts but exactly what, I can't say.
Any tips on making rock-solid PDFs greatly appreciated.
We're often getting Word files of unknown provenance. Sometimes they already reflow when we open them in Word 2004 on the Mac. The users are clearly not sophisticated ("oh, I want to start a new page ..." *sound of return key banging repeatedly*)
All the work has been black and white until now, so we have got away without Pitstop or pdfColorConvert ... but I will be telling my boss we absolutely need those in future in case colour jobs come in.
Our usual practice is to convert to grayscale in Acrobat and save as PDF-X/3 (we do this more to embed the fonts than for anything else).
We are still seeing bizarre behaviour of type when the job goes on the RIP. Things like bullet points disappearing; text that should be bold is not bold; kerning is all to pot causing lines of text to be strangely spaced out and longer than they should be. I'm inclined to think this is something to do with the fonts but exactly what, I can't say.
Any tips on making rock-solid PDFs greatly appreciated.