Creating PDF from File is creating poor image quality.

When I combine files to one PDF I am receiving terrible image quality. I'm importing PNG's and I set my preferences to maximum PNG quality.

asv wrote:
I tried to "print" my file to the Adobe CreatePDF Desktop Printer and control the image settings from there, but it keeps failing.
when you say "it keeps failing" what does this mean? Do you get any error message or messages?
The best way to create any pdf file from Microsoft Office package is to print to the pdf file as you have already tried. If this fails for any reasons you can save the file in PPT or any Office packages as PDF as long as you have the latest versions of Office - 2007, 2010, or 2013. For Office 2007 you had to download an Add-in from Microsoft website to "Save as" pdf but 2010 and 2013 are automatic.
Hope this helps.

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Thus, I may misunderstand. But I am trying to tell you that none of us have experience with the configuration. Adobe will also tell you to simply upgrade. Unfortunately, that leaves you on your own to experiment. If you have questions along the way based on your observations, we would be glad to try to help, but don't expect too much.

Why did my Acrobat 9 stop being able to create PDFs from files?

Howdy folks- my first foray here.
I have a copy of acrobat pro 9 which I installed and used uneventfully for the last few years (windows 7). I hadn't used it in the last few months.
Yesterday when I tried to create a new PDF from file (word doc, per usual) it gave me an error after 'opening the program the file was created in'. then it said PDFmaker or something like that wasnt working, did i want to run in repair mode?
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Bill@VT wrote:
I guess I must not understand how you are transferring the items to the clipboard. Is the browser the same one you used with AA X?
Yes, I used the same browser (Chrome) with AA X and AA XI.
Bill@VT wrote:
When I did it with AA XI, I used the mouse (on a PC) to select the text and figures in my browser and copied that info to the clipboard (ctrl-C on the PC and I assume similar on the MAC).
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I may be missing some functionality or that functionality may not exist.
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It works better than through the AdobePDF Printer, or through the Apple Print menus save as PDF. (Unless you have X.6.x Snow leopard)
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I have some problems with creating PDF from MS word 2007 file.
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