Fatal error while converting doc to pdf

Question

While Adobe Acrobat 7.09 converted a rather simple (albeit long) Word 2003 document, I received the following fatal error message during the "Processing for Tag Information" stage of Acrobat PDFMaker.
MS Visual C++ Debug Library
Program: WINWORD.EXE
Module:Reader For RTF.smrd
File: <blank>
Run-Time Check Failure #3 - The variable bNewRowExpectedBeforeFootNote is being used without being defined
Abort Retry Ignore
"Retry" dumps both applications.
"Ignore" re-displays the error, each time with other variables; "iTableLeftBeforeFootNote",
"iTableGapBeforeFootNote",
"bFirstElementSentBeforeFootNote",
"bRowHeightBeforeFootNote"
and then continues processing, until this same cycle repeats itself several more times before the "Processing for Tag Information" finally completes.
If the error is "IGNORED" enough, the conversion will complete. However I have not assessed the resulting pdf for usability.

Answer 1

From what I understand of tagging, it just provides markup in the PDF to indicate where WORD put a paragraph or other format aspect. Thus the saving back to a WORD file is easier. Other than that, I do not think that tags are used for much, except possibly accessibility. I usually just print to the Adobe PDF printer for my needs, but I do not have links and such that are critical for transfer to the PDF. The thing to remember is that tags really bloat the PDF, and you just do not have the memory to deal with that. Unless tagging or other PDF Maker features are important to your need, then it may be best to turn them off. One thing I would suggest leaving in is the embedding of all fonts as subsets.
Don't know that I helped much or even got it all correct, but maybe that is what you wanted to know. Bill