Printing a docx as a pdf

The goal here is to offer the information in a way that replicates the original format as closely as possible.

In addition, files should be reasonably compact and readable by the maximum number of recipients. Depending on the situation, you may want the document to be easily editable, or you may want to restrict the ability to make changes. It has two big advantages. Second, the format can replicate pretty much anything you see on a printed page.

You can optimize the document for viewing on the web, which converts artwork to low-res JPEG images, or optimize it for print, which uses higher resolution with a corresponding increase in file size. If you plan to attach a PDF to an email, you should probably use a low quality setting, but regardless of the settings, you should preview the document in Adobe Reader to ensure that it looks OK.

The other issue with PDF is that the files are not easy to edit. Depending on your intention, this may or may not be a good thing. Most PDF-authoring programs give you the option to set permissions so that content in the file cannot be copied, extracted, edited or printed.

Thanks Anthony i already tried that but i kept getting Additional information: No application is associated with the specified file for this operation on p. Start ; — afri. Do you have Adobe Acrobat installed?

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Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked PDF Scanner. Split PDF. Merge PDF. Edit PDF. PDF Reader. Number Pages. Delete PDF Pages. Rotate PDF. PDF to Word. PDF to Excel. Word to PDF. Excel to PDF. Unlock PDF. Hi, Did this go anywhere towards a solution?

I have the same problem in that I have fabulously created a complex Word Word compatibilty issues and the problem of it not opening inline are now forcing me to try convert this. I have looked at one 3rd party tool so far to achieve this, but it fails miserably when trying to render the docx as PDF, I suspect because the samples are really noddy but a real Word document is much bigger.

Is there a way of reliably performing this conversion? I do not want to do this via any Word object model as this does not sem the right way to go. Any thoughts, anyone? Monday, December 31, PM. Did this go anywhere towards a solution? Sunday, March 2, PM. Application" ; msword. Open filename ; msword. Wednesday, March 19, AM.

Yo, Goat my man, love to know more about your generated Word document. Sure enough, Word is clever enough to recover the remaining elements, but anything I change gets nuked. That prevents me from swapping in new images charts in my case , or modifying any hyperlinks which exist in.

FYI for others out there, I found that I can open up a. Using SAM, I can extract only the file I choose, edit it, put it back, and the other elements remain intact. Goat, how did you succeed at altering the document without generating a document is corrupt message? Or did you edit only the document. It seems to be a checksum of some sort that Microsoft is imposing; kinda blows the value of having an open XML document, don't you think?