I am having a really hard time sending large (~700MB) Acrobat files as
attachments to email.
I am running Outlook 2007 under Vista
Having spent several hours and some dollars to find and implement
WinZip, I remembered that Acrobat was already compressed. Sooo

I tried exporting to plain text and the pages were out of register by
about 1/3 of the page width, so, for example, I could read the Table
of Contents, but the page numbers were off the page.

I have been trying for two days to export Acrobat 8 files to Word 2007
( one at a time), with absolutely no success. I might get the first
page of the document, but all the rest are blank. The export of a 1.3
GB Acrobat document took about 3 hours, with the 'thermometer" keeping
me posted as to the progress of the process. Export of a 208 MB
Acrobat file required over an hour also.

Is the duration of the Export process normal?

Can someone help me identify what I might be doing wrong.

In this particular instance, the content is what is important to
email, so I don't care if there are minor format differences; the file
just needs to be readable.