Correcting Cut-off Text

I recently viewed a PDF that I downloaded from a website and the document contained many tables. One of the tables has its bottom cut off so that I can see half of a line of text.

I have no idea what form the original document was in when the author created this PDF but it was probably Micorsoft Word.

At any rate, I seem to recall at least one other instance of this happening with creating a PDF from Word but I cannot recall the details of that earlier example now.

My question relates to how this happens and can it be corrected somehow? The table in question has a line of text just below it so I am wondering if Word tables with text lines immediately below them, are somehow difficult for Acrobat to handle, thus causing the truncated final line of the table? That's just a guess. I really have no idea what causes this. Now that I think about it, I don't even know if the author used Acrobat to create the PDF or some other tool instead.

Any ideas on the cause of the problem?

Douglas G. Larson

We have the same problem when generating PDFs from RoboHelp 9. The text is cut off in the PDF when a table row splits and carries over to the next page.

Any ideas? We really need to resolve this problem.

I recently viewed a PDF that I downloaded from a website and the document contained many tables. One of the tables has its bottom cut off so that I can see half of a line of text.I have no idea what form the original document was in when the author created this PDF but it was probably Micorsoft Word.

At any rate, I seem to recall at least one other instance of this happening with creating a PDF from Word but I cannot recall the details of that earlier example now.

My question relates to how this happens and can it be corrected somehow? The table in question has a line of text just below it so I am wondering if Word tables with text lines immediately below them, are somehow difficult for Acrobat to handle, thus causing the truncated final line of the table? That's just a guess. I really have no idea what causes this. Now that I think about it, I don't even know if the author used Acrobat to create the PDF or some other tool instead.

Any ideas on the cause of the problem?

With certain versions of Word, this issue can be caused by re-formatting that takes place when the PDF is created. Word tends to reformat a document based on whatever print driver is selected. In newer versions of Word, you can turn this functionality off in by using the "Use printer metrics to lay out document" under the Options menu in Word.
To avoid this reformatting, the document author should select the Adobe PDF printer driver as the default prior to creating the PDF.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.