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Subject:Re: pdf conversion problems From:Tom Huffman <tlhuffman -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:susiel -at- crt -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:37:02 -0400
Susie:
I'm willing to bet that it's just a display oddity. Look at the same bullets in
the Acrobat viewer with the view set at 150% and see if they don't display
properly.
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> I am trying to convert a Word document to a .pdf. The conversion works fine,
> except that certain symbols I have set up in Word styles are changed to
> something else in the .pdf. For example, my bullet style displays as a
> hyphen. I have searched the archives and Adobe help, but I can't figure out
> what's wrong. I've tried the Embed Fonts option from the print option in
> Word, but that hasn't helped.
>
> Any clues? Of course, this is for a document due this morning.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Susie Fisher
> Bank of America
