I used MS Word 2010 to save a document as a .pdf file, and some of the images have strange, extra lines on them. This happens whether the source document is a .doc file or a .docx file: Can anyone explain what is happening, and what I can do about it? Note: I am really looking for an explanation of what is going on with MS Word and how to get it to create my PDF properly, not other programs I can use to create .pdf files from .doc or .docx files. Edit: When I originally asked this question, I did not know that the source of the image mattered at all, but since I have discovered that part of the issue was the R statistics program generating images with transparency (with no notice to the user), I am adding the R tag to this question. The issue could very well crop up without the use of R, but there are plenty of people out there using R to generate images for use in MS Word and then outputting to PDF, and they should be able to find this question more easily if they are smarter than I am and guess that the source of the image might matter.
asked Aug 5, 2013 at 21:34
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I know you want to work with Word, but if you get desperate for making PDF files, you can use PrimoPDF (primopdf.com) to make a "printer" that saves to PDFs, and that will work with any program that can print. Not exactly what you're looking for, but I've never had a problem with it, and it's just like printing.
Commented Aug 6, 2013 at 14:05
@Wally Printing to PDF could work, however when dealing with large documents saving to PDF also gives you the option to automatically create bookmarks which can save hours of work.
Commented Aug 15, 2013 at 10:29
