[AccessD] Adobe Acrobat dropping drawn lines when converting to PDF

Hi Charlotte,
If this started out of the blue then my money is on some Adobe update being
the actual 'cause'
Re your comment " I don't have a choice on the output method" does this mean
you are not able to try another PDF creator?
If you are able to, then grab one of the freebies or cheapies from the
interwebs and see if any of these 'fixes' it.
DD

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2012 2:57 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem
Subject: [AccessD] Adobe Acrobat dropping drawn lines when converting to PDF

I'm banging my head against this one, and it just started a couple of days
ago out of the blue.  I'm using Acrobat 9 Standard (employer's machine) to
print long "letters" (reports, about 8 pages per "letter") from Access 2003.
All the grid lines, including both line controls and lines drawn using the
Line method of the report were printing out to PDFs until this past weekend.
Suddenly, Acrobat has starting randomly losing lines here and there.  It's
the most maddening thing I've run into because there doesn't seem to be a
fix for it.  The issue has been discussed intermittently on the web for
years, but I haven't found a solution that actually works and continues to
work.  The advice is contradictory ( lower the dpi to 300, no raise the dpi
to 1200, no ....) and some of the solutions seem to work once, but the next
time you try it, the problem reappears.  I'm going to get them to uninstall
and reinstall adobe tomorrow, but I wondered if any of you have run into
this?

Interestingly, the Lebans solution appears to work better than the PDF
printer except that the report files being generated are apparently too
large and cause the snapshot to crash before it can complete.   I've been
fighting this for nearly a week, and I'm getting cranky!  It isn't just a
display issue either.  The lines are there in the reports and print to a
printer properly, but some of them go awol when sent to the Adobe PDF
printer.  I don't have a choice on the output method, so I'm looking for
answers.

Any suggestions?  I'm getting far too old for this kind of irritation and
I'm going to start whacking people with my cane if things don't get better!
;-)

Charlotte Foust
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