Convert Word to PDF Without Losing Formatting
Fonts substituted, images shifted, page breaks moved. Here is why Word to PDF exports go wrong and the settings that prevent it.
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Fonts substituted, images shifted, page breaks moved. Here is why Word to PDF exports go wrong and the settings that prevent it.
A scan is a picture of a page, so Ctrl+F finds nothing. OCR adds an invisible text layer behind the image, and there are several free ways to do it.
A PDF should render identically everywhere. When it does not, the fonts were not embedded and the other machine substituted something close enough.
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The layout shifts, fonts change and page breaks move on someone else's machine. Here is what actually causes it and how to send a document that holds together.