Those who have tried have discovered that clicking “save as” and selecting the PDF option does not necessarily produce a document that is faithful to what you saw on the screen in MS Word.  Here’s a short list of potential problems:

• fuzzy pictures that look over compressed and pixellated.
• unacceptable font substitutions.
• mixed RGB and CMYK color modes. (Commercial printing requires CMYK)
• Lines and marks that should have been hidden by opaque layers show because of transparency issues.
• Text overflows in text boxes.

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Often we have lists of email addresses saved in spreadsheet format.  You want to copy the list of addresses into the address form for your email program, but when you try to paste they are not recognized as valid email addresses.  Usually, the problem is a missing comma to separate the addresses. The email program expects “comma separated values” when a series of addresses are pasted.  But the addresses from the spreadsheet are separated by spaces and a hidden new-line character which the email program ignores. (more…)