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The oddest behavior is happening, any advice to trouble should would be greatly appreciated.
When I print a 133 page Word 2010 document with images, text boxes and text, etc. It prints to the distiller/virtual printer fine ONCE -- but then if I print again to the PDF distiller/virtual printer the text inside the text boxes won't print.
While troubleshooting and making sure all drivers, MS office, and Acrobat was up to date I discovered that after a restart the document prints fine. I also noticed while watching the print progress window that the bar moved slower on the first print job and almost twice as fast on the second job which subsequently had missing text inside the text boxes created by word 2010. I have checked all settings in word and it should print everything and does ONCE.
What gives, anyone?
Thanks in advance
Darrell

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