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Acrobat for Windows and Mac: Creating PDFs

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Metadata (document properties) from Microsoft documents

When I used to create PDFs from Word documents in Windows 7, the PDF would automatically inherit the Title, Subject, and Author properties.

In Windows 10/Acrobat Pro 17 this is no longer the case. All of these fields are blank.

I don't know if this is a change in Acrobat or Word (Office 365), but it's a major pain to set these properties manually every time.

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Mike Tilley shared this idea · Feb 19, 2020 · Report… · Admin →

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AdminTanvi Rastogi (Lead Software Engineer, Adobe) responded · Feb 23, 2020

Hi

Yes. File > Save As > PDF workflow invokes Microsoft’s converter.
Great to hear that your problem is now solved using Acrobat’s Save as Adobe PDF.

Thanks
Tanvi

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Anonymous commented · February 25, 2020 4:04 AM · Report

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Mike Tilley commented · February 20, 2020 5:32 AM · Report

I think i solved it:

My normal way of creating a PDF from Word was F-12 followed by "Save As" then picking PDF from the list.

Yesterday I tried File -> Save as ADOBE PDF and that worked - all properties transferred.

It seems that the first way invokes a different converter (Microsoft's?) that does not transfer properties.

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