And now Adobe wants a monthly payment for a version that works under Win10. Unfortunately, though you may have paid for Acrobat 8 'for life' it is difficult or impossible to make work fully (especially as a doc to pdf converter/ printer) under Win 10. Type a name for your file, and click Save. Choose the Adobe PDF Settings and click Continue.

Click the PDF button and choose Save As Adobe PDF.

However, you can use the Save As Adobe PDF option to print a file to PDF on Mac. Some people say they do, but I think these people must be fooled by hyperlinks that have the full URL typed in the document (and Acrobat reader which recognizes these URLs). The Adobe PDF printer is not available on Mac. If you are willing to reduce resolution substantially, CutePDF with Free PDF Compressor (suggested above) comes closest.įor me, Win10 print to PDF files are huge, and can not manage some images in Word documents.Īnother limitation of every free PDF converter that I have tested with Word 2003 (and I have tested many) is that they do not capture hyperlinks. gpd file below the following code *Option: ResOption1Īnd this is the code added to the pdc file įor me, Shane's instructions above add the resolution options, but selecting any of them does nothing to reduce file size.įor me, none of the free doc to pdf converters comes close (at comparable resolution) to the small pdf file size from Acrobat 8 with Word 2003. Print to pdf Resolution options *Option: ResOption2 To add on to dsungaro's answer referencing the microsoft article, here are the code additions I made to successfully add resolution options.

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