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kmccartn2200
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Dec 07, 2021
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Export to PDF from Access 365 yields 'fuzzy' results

I am running Access 365 16.0.13801.21050 32b.    My report needs to have a background that comes from an external file. This file is originally a PDF (fillable). I have tried importing the PDF file...
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    George_Hepworth
    Dec 07, 2021

    kmccartn2200 

     

    Good point, I was referring to my experience scanning text into image files where the resulting pdf was not adequate.

    You're trying to import the fillable form as an image from the PDF?

     

    All of this makes me wonder if the repeated conversions are not simply too much to result in a useful final product. I know it's a lot of work, but I'd probably recreate the fillable form as an Access report instead.

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kmccartn2200
Copper Contributor
Dec 07, 2021
Just to be clear, it's not scanned text. The original PDF from the government is fillable and digitally signed so it can't be edited (in Acrobat).
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George_Hepworth
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Dec 07, 2021

kmccartn2200 

 

Good point, I was referring to my experience scanning text into image files where the resulting pdf was not adequate.

You're trying to import the fillable form as an image from the PDF?

 

All of this makes me wonder if the repeated conversions are not simply too much to result in a useful final product. I know it's a lot of work, but I'd probably recreate the fillable form as an Access report instead.

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