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  • August 10, 2007 at 4:12 am #2224588

    Problems converting Access 2003 to Adobe pdf

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    by swisstonihasher · about 15 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there,

    I have an user that’s created a report into Access 2003 and now wants to convert to pdf. The problem is that the “boxing” around content tables is partly missing after the conversion. Some tables have the bottom line missing or side “wall” missing. This is all done on Adobe v8 of the software.

    Has anyone come across this before and found a fix?

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    • August 10, 2007 at 4:12 am #2617428

      Clarifications

      by swisstonihasher · about 15 years, 1 month ago

      In reply to Problems converting Access 2003 to Adobe pdf

      Clarifications

    • August 15, 2007 at 3:42 am #2619574

      PDF file from Access report

      by dfmahoney1 · about 15 years, 1 month ago

      In reply to Problems converting Access 2003 to Adobe pdf

      I don’t have a specific solution for your problem but here are a couple of items to test: 1. try producing the report as a snp file to test that all the formatting is coming through; 2. try producing the pdf manually using (e.g.) pdf Factory (www.fineprint.com) as a test. I produced many Access reports with this and had no difficulty with boxes or borders. This can be automated also and is reported to give very good pdf representations 3. Try larger margins.

      • August 15, 2007 at 6:55 am #2619497

        Print To PDF

        by trajmag · about 15 years, 1 month ago

        In reply to PDF file from Access report

        If the report format is set up correct, try going to “Print” in “Files” and selecting Adobe. Then save somewhere and print the PDF as usual.

        • August 16, 2007 at 4:06 am #2626439

          Thanks

          by swisstonihasher · about 15 years, 1 month ago

          In reply to Print To PDF

          Okay thanks…

          Just finished doing the updates for latest version of adobe, will then try what you say..

        • August 22, 2007 at 4:51 am #2627683

          free pdf creator

          by route81 · about 15 years, 1 month ago

          In reply to Thanks

          I always use PDFcreator. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/)
          It simply installs as a printerdriver so all you have to do is make whatever you want in the layout that you want and ‘print’ it to PDFcreator. You really don’t have to do anything special for it.
          You can even select different dimensions of paper (from letter to A0) if desired.

          It’s possible Adobe itself does the same, but this is free and almost completely transparent.

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