Recommendation on a rock-solid MS Word - PDF converter?

Subject: Recommendation on a rock-solid MS Word - PDF converter?
From: Patrick Wright <pdoubleya -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:39:14 +0100


Hi

I need to convert a large (~200 page) user manual from MS Word 2002 to
Adobe PDF v5.0+. The document cross-references must be converted to
PDF hyperlinks, and the document must be print quality. There are many
images, all but 1 in JPEG format, and these must be good quality on
output as well.

I have tried Adobe PDF Writer 5.05, but this has two (known) problems
- errors about "insufficient memory"--does not stop the process, but
must baby-sit
- very, very slow--after 45 minutes or so was only 18% complete

This is not a workable solution--if the output is not good, if we need
to change something minor in the document and re-create the output, we
may have to wait hours.

I have downloaded and tried two others, which all have limitations
- FinePrint PDFFactory: does not support cross-references

- Jaws PDF Creator: produces slightly blurred images regardless of
compression level, even with compression off


Can anyone recommend a good converter? I need one that I can try out,
even if it puts a watermark on the evaluation version (Jaws and
PDFFactory do something like that)--I can't afford to pay to try out
any number of these (there are lots, it's a cottage industry), but
will purchase the right one after testing it.

My client doesn't care which I use, although they have a license for
the Adobe product.


Many thanks
Patrick

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