Acrobat 8.1 - PDF page numbers different to MS-Word

Hello
I have a 120 page MS Word (ver 2003) document. When I convert it to a PDF using Acrobat 8.1, I get a document which is 114 pages. According to Tech Support doc 329296 ("Text reflows into more or fewer pages when you convert a file to PDF") I need to make the PDF writer the default printer.
Although this solves the issue, I use another printer as my default. Is it not possible to get the PDF output to match the Word file without having to substitute default printers?
Thanks.
Farrukh Hyder

There is no Writer anymore, it went away after AA5. However, WORD would do something similar with Writer also. WORD is the issue here, not Acrobat. WORD ALWAYS reflows the document to best match the selected printer. Frame Maker and other layout programs do not do this reflow and that is why Mike recommended Publisher.
I understand there is an option in WORD to have it not do the reflow (though that may give a less that desired output). Unfortunately I can not find it in WORD 2007, so I might be wrong.
This feature is characteristic of most work processors. To avoid it, companies developed layout programs such as FM and Pub.
To set up your document, go to the print menu and select the Adobe PDF printer. Then go back through your document and adjust the pages and such. That should give you a PDF result that is consistent with what you see.

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