Ken
Is it always the same recipients who are reading it as gobbledygook? It may
be a problem with the ISP/carrier that is destroying the attachments
(overzealous AV).
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Terry Farrell - Word MVP
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"Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
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: No being sent as attachment. We send several hundred each month to
differing
: people and only a handful of people each month report this problem.
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: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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: In addition to Graham's point, if you are sending the PDF as the body of
: the
: email (as your wording suggests), then it will not be readable even by
: Adobe
: Reader.
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: "Ken" Reply to NG only wrote in message
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: Using Adobe Acrobat Version 6 I convert Word Docs to pdf files. I send
: out
: these files customers and most can open and read them. However around
5%
: say
: in the email body is a mass of gobbledy gook and can't open or read the
: file..
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: I see on my Adobe software it is saved to be backward compatible to be
: read
: by version 5 onwards and wondered if the recipient had an earlier
version
: it
: would cause the problem. I could change the settings to make it further
: backward compatible but it seem to balloon the file size.
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: Any help appreciated and sorry if not quite the right NG but couldn't
: find
: any other.
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