converting Publisher 2010 to PDF causes font color change

Anonymous
2010-08-15T10:55:37+00:00

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
2010-11-20T01:18:57+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

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-01T23:48:25+00:00

    My first time commenting on this site.

    I have been using Office 2013 with Publisher in particular and converting a newsletter with embedded hyperlinks into pdf using PrimoPDF as the printer. This has been successful in most cases in preserving hyperlinks - but not  always. The most successful way is to open the wanted webpage and copy the address, pasting it into the publisher document and then using the 'insert hyperlink' function. Most websites WILL create an active hyperlink with PrimoPDF but some do have a problem that I have not been able to find a reason for. Particular problems appear to be those with https:// security.

    The other issue - preserving text colours with the Publisher built in pdf export function - is due to the printer being used and the simplest way to overcome this, I have found, is to use one of the Windows built-in document printers as default. eg. 'Microsoft xps document writer'. Simply set this as default printer before doing 'Export' from Publisher to a pdf format and the colours are all preserved. All hyperlinks are also preserved using this method thus solving both problems in one.

    Hope this helps

    Michael

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-28T15:26:51+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 solution worked for me, I wouldn't waste time downloading third part PDF tools. Thanks Ryan!

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-16T01:59:20+00:00

    The tool that Don used has gone up in price from the $40 he used to talk about. There is a free trial in case you want to try PDF-XChange Pro:

    http://download.cnet.com/PDF-XChange-Pro/3000-18483_4-10061794.html

    and

    http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads

    The hyperlinks survived converting Pub 2000 files to pdf. Don didn't use the newer versions.

    Thanks for the info about Word. It looks like a continuing problem from Pub 2007 as it also stripped the font color. Unfortunately I wouldn't hold my breath about MSFT fixing it in the near future...sorry. Perhaps Acrobat will be fixed in the nearer future to work with Office 2010 and Publisher.

    DavidF

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-08-15T13:15:02+00:00

    This has been reported before. The only workaround is to use a different PDF converter. Try Acrobat or one of the free converters on the web.www.primopdf.com is free, if you do a search you'll find many others.

    Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/

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