We've had no problems with Adobe Acrobat 4.0 in comparison to Acrobat 3.1.  In may situations 4.0 seems to be a superior version..  The initial configuration of Distiller is important.  Ensure that "Print Optimized" is selected as well as "3.0" formatting (see Fastlane instructions on creating PDF files).
The problem with Word Perfect  to Word conversions must be a common one.  I've found that it's faster to save a WP doc as plain text (removing all formatting) and then open the text file in Word and reformatting it as needed  Graphics (if used) can be added back into the new document.  It's proven easier than continuously "fighting" with unseen code.

Jane Prudhomme wrote:

> I agree with Winnie's explanation, that document conversions which go through several steps are more likely to develop glitches, and since Word is only capable of "reading" the converted file in a much older generation, that is more likely to cause problems.
>
> We've not had any problems with WordPerfect to PDF conversions, only when for some reason, the document has to go to Word as a step in between.
>
> However, I will caution everyone that we recently (over the summer) had a problem with Office 2000/Word in conjunction with Acrobat 4.0. That particular problem resulted in inability to print by anyone, after the proposal had been submitted.  NSF worked on this for a long time & finally gave up & asked for the document in Word!  For the time being I encourage everyone to stick with Acrobat 3.01, since "simpler" usually means less problems.
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> Winnie Ennenga wrote:
>
> > The WordPerfect to PDF conversion is the same as for Office 97/Word 97 to
> > PDF. One likely explanation is that the document was compromised when it
> > was translated to Office 97/Word 97, since Word will only recognize
> > WordPerfect 5 (published 7 or 8 years ago).
> >
> > The good news is that WordPerfect will open and save to the same generation
> > Word files. Additionally, WordPerfect versions 6 through 9 are compatible,
> > so P.I.s can work together even if they are not using the same version.
> > Adobe Acrobat is included in the WordPerfect 9 package, so you do not have
> > to purchase additional software to convert files to PDF!  All this helps
> > P.I.s concentrate on their science instead of the mechanics of
> > communicating, which is "a good thing!" and which helps explain the
> > durability of  WordPerfect in this imperfect world!
> >
> > I'd be glad to help you with the conversion if you'd like to contact me
> > directly.
> >
> > Winnie Ennenga
> >
> > At 05:48 PM 12/7/99 -0800, you wrote:
> > >We have a few PI's that still use WordPerfect. When creating a PDF from a
> > >word perfect document, formatting is compromised totally. We saved this
> > >document as a Office 97/Word 97 document, but the formatting is still saved
> > >into the new document; scanning finally worked, but an error message still
> > >came up before the PDF was created.  Does anyone have another solution?
> > >
> > >Thank you
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