Question : Why does Adobe Acrobat make a WRECK of table borders?

Hi,

I use Word Documents heavily in my business as I am an Executive Recruiter.  I would like to use Adobe Acrobat to change my .docs into .pdf's to reduce the size and make them viewable by people that don't have Word.

My problem is that my .docs contain TABLES and when converted to .pdf's, the borders are all mucked up (varying widths, missing spots, etc...)  I've also noticed that UNDERLINED text appears strange as the line is excessively thick.

Every new release of Acrobat I have hoped that this will improve yet it never does.  Can I adjust some setting to make this work better or is Adobe just never ever going to get MS Word .doc conversion right?

Regards,

Mitchell

P.S., I have noticed as well that any images I have on the .doc are degraded significantly.  Is there a way to improve this as well?  I would like to be a customer of Adobe on this, but just can't present these crummy looking .pdf's to my clients.  Thanks!

Answer : Why does Adobe Acrobat make a WRECK of table borders?

I can honestly say that I've never had a problem.

But wait a minute.  The sorts of things you're talking about don't seem to be big, huge, major things...lines are too thick and appear missing in some spots and so forth...it's not printing sideways or anything.

If you zoom in on one of these defects, does it look any better?  Seriously, zoom in on some underlining that looks too thick and see if it changes the bigger it gets...or, better yet, print something out and see if it looks okay or is still messed up.