converting Publisher 2010 to PDF causes font color change

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Howdy! I'm using Win 7, Office 2010 and Acrobat 8. I can convert word files to PDFs with no problem, using the Office built-in PDF conversion (NOT the "Print to" option, because I need the hyperlinks to be active). However, when I convert from Publisher 2010 to a PDF, all is well except any color text (different fonts, including hyperlink text) changes to a very dark grey, almost black. The colors that I'm using are a dark red, and the default blue hyperlink font. The fonts I'm using are standard Arial and Perpetua, which are defaults.

I've tried lots of troubleshooting, but nothing seems to work. Most of the online help I've found has to do with converting to pdf by using the print driver option, which of course won't work for me, as I need the hyperlinks active.

Last time this happened, I was still using Office 2007, and was able to use the Adobe pdfmaker option instead of the "added on" built in Office pdf converter. That corrected the problem. However, now the Adobe pdfmaker doesn't seem to be an option, as I understand that there is some sort of conflict that keeps it from working correctly.

Any ideas how to keep my fonts from changing to black/grey?

Thanks.

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Anonymous

I think I found the answer to this: Even though you are not printing it, if you have a color printer, set that as the default printer, then Save As PDF and it will hopefully work. All font colors and links should be preserved.

When I change my default printer back to my black and white laser, it stops working as desired.

This problem only started to happen to me after I installed a color printer.

Hope this helps!

Ryan

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Anonymous

2015-03-27T21:38:34+00:00

I think I found the answer to this: Even though you are not printing it, if you have a color printer, set that as the default printer, then Save As PDF and it will hopefully work. All font colors and links should be preserved.

When I change my default printer back to my black and white laser, it stops working as desired.

This problem only started to happen to me after I installed a color printer.

Hope this helps!

Ryan

This is a way to fool Publisher! But if you print in B&W most of the time then you have to set your B&W Printer back as default, and then back to the color printer to save as PDF. A lot of extra work just to take care of a problem in Microsoft's software, that they should fix.

I used Pub 10 for years till some time in Nov 2014 when this started to happen to me, it must have been caused by some update from Microsoft. THEY SHOULD FIX THE PROBLEM! (same happens to Pub 13)

Microsoft should put the "save as CMYK" back in Publisher13 since CMYK is the standard for commercial printing!
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Anonymous

2015-03-27T17:24:40+00:00

MS Pub 10 was saving PFD files with full color text for years - in the past few months it now makes all text black! If I change the printer to a color it will work but I print on a b&w printer most of the time and changing it is a pain.

It seems that during a windows update it all started! Why can't microsoft get it right and leave it alone!

I have Pub 10 on another computer and it works just fine- (haven't let it do updates for some time)

Also when are they going to fix Pub13 so you can save files in CMYK like you can in 10
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Anonymous

2014-11-11T16:10:35+00:00

Ryan's solution worked for me as well. I just selected my color printer, restarted publisher for good measure, and then the 'Publish to PDF' produced the proper colored fonts. No 3rd party tool is needed. Thanks Ryan.
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Anonymous

2014-06-20T00:27:46+00:00

I have office 2013 and it's exactly same problem. the funny thing is microsoft is not even trying to fix such annoying problem

Dave
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