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Re: Losing images when converting to PDF from Word?

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From: Metzessible
Date: Nov 16, 2016 7:49AM

What's the reason you're using GIF in the first place? Are you trying to
export an animation?

GIF is a very old format, with support for the specification ending in
1989. It also only supports up to 256 colors, vs the newer transparency
enabled graphic format PNG.

There could be a number of reasons why it's not exporting correctly. It
could be created a long time ago, something may be wrong with the way the
file was created that isn't jiving with the PDF exporter in Word, Word may
be using a different method to parse GIFs, the way it is compressing the
PDF file on export may be conflicting with the other file formats you are
using because it's such an old format, etc.

Can you post a dummy word and pdf where this happens somewhere so we can
get a better look?

My recommendation otherwise is to convert your formats to more current
technology, since it's so old. Aside from that, I am having trouble
reproducing the problem.

Thanks,
Jon

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Whitney Quesenbery < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> Yep. Here we are in 2016 and we still can't make the format work. I don't
> want new features. I don't want cloud working I want bugs fixed.
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:13 PM Andrea Miralia <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
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> > We've had the issue for 2 years now, with Acrobat DC this time and Word
> > 2010 (version "14.")
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> > This is a bug that we've had in hundreds of documents, all due at the
> same
> > time, so this year and last, we had to manually insert them back in. They
> > were nowhere to be found in the content panel.
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