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

I seem to be stuck with Adobe.  I thought of trying one of the others and I
may do that as a stopgap, since I do have admin rights to my machine and
they are desparate to get the job done.  From what I found on the web, the
problem sometimes occurs with other PDF creators too, but at this point,
I'll try anything.

Charlotte Foust

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Darren <darren at activebilling.com.au>wrote:

> 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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