

So I wouldn't say never, but I will say if you're stuck in the old busted process of printing to PDF, yeah. This document has basically 1 paragraph on page 2, and is 100% text. It also is based on a print and is therefore a raster rendering of a document and not the document itself. This has a massive negative impact on print quality in some circumstances. It looks like they're running the older version of ghostscript through a minification process. This process is comparable to, but not as flexible as what Adobe Acrobat does via it's Word Plugin.įinally, CutePDF is outputting a PDF v 1.4 file, without any frills. This also results in a PDF v1.7 file, but is a text document properly converted to PDF complete with bookmarks and everything else.

Modern version of Word (read 2016 and newer) have the built in ability to save as PDF.

Worse, this process converts the print spool into a PDF, which results in a raster rendering of a document stored as a PDF. Microsoft Print to PDF outputs a PDF v1.7 file, configured for print use (600dpi) at full color.
