Looking at the Metadata of your files it seems that...
- ... the
.docx
files were created with MS Office 2007 (or later)
- ... the
.pdf
files were created with Adobe Acrobat Distiller 8.0.0
AFAIR, Acrobat 8.1 (released in June 2007) was the first Acrobat version to support MS Office 2007. So my guess is that the faulty PDF (missing the formulas while this other graphic is also present) is due to Acrobat 8.0 not being up to the job.
I do currently have no MS Office 2007 or later around to open the original file. I only have Office 2003 on Win XP. If I open the .docx
there, the file gets somehow converted to an earlier version, and the formulas get converted to low resolution graphics -- yes, even inside the opened .doc(x) -- and they are no longer editable....
The Acrobat 9.4.4 present on the same XP system can convert to PDF both *.doc(x) files opened in Office 2003 just fine (but the formula graphics are clearly low-resolution quality).
OTOH, Office 2007 may already have a built-in method to convert/save as its documents in PDF format (Office 2010 definitely has this). Maybe this gives you better PDF results than relying on a Distiller 8.0.0 from a time that was just before your *.docx
newness even hit the market?
Update: Later this weekend I'll be able to open the *.docx files in Word 2007 and see what can be done for the PDF conversion from there...
Update 2: I've now had the opportunity to look at your original .docx file. My friend's system was a Vista, with Office 2007 and Acrobat Professional 9.4.0.
With this software combo, there are 3 different ways to create a PDF from the .docx. From the application main menu click on...
- "Print..." and select the "Adobe PDF" printer. This generates a PostScript file and sends it to Adobe Distiller which converts the PS to PDF.
- "Save As..." and select "Adobe PDF". This path uses the 'Adobe PDFMaker for Word' set of macros (which come onto the system with the Adobe Professional install routine) and convert to PDF without the PostScript de-tour.
- "Save As..." and select first "PDF or XPS", then "Save as type: PDF". This method is the built-in MS way to convert Word files to PDF.
I tested all 3 methods, and each of them had as a result the math formulas on the PDF page in good quality.
I noticed that the font used inside the formulas is Cambria and Cambria Math. Karol, you should check your one system which doesn't produce the formulas in the PDF: does it have these fonts installed?
Update 3: Since your two systems which produce different PDF results from the same input .docx file via "Save As... --> Adobe PDF", one thing to check are the PDF conversion settings used on both systems.
From the top of my head:
- Click on Acrobat in the top menu of the Ribbon Bar.
- Click on Preferences.
- Check which selection is active in drop-down menu of Conversion Settings.
- Check all the other settings (maybe document them with screenshots).
- On the Settings tab, click on Advanced Settings....
- Check all the settings (maybe document them with screenshots).
- Click on Save As.... This will be an ASCII text file with the suffix .joboptions. It holds (nearly) all of the Distiller settings used for producing the PDF.
- Choose a filename you can remember and match to the host where you created it.
Follow this procedure on both your systems. After you created the two .joboptions files, compare them with the help of a text editor of your choice.
I'm quite sure you'll discover some differences. (Maybe not the ones which are responsible for your problems, but it's worth a try...)
Apologies if my memory failed me and if parts of above procedure is not entirely correct....