How make Press-Ready PDFs with MS Word.

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.


The downloadable PDF (click here) describes the problems more fully and tells how to fix them and produce a good PDF.

Your last step will be to submit the PDF for an automated pre-flight check at the website con4rm.com.

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