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Old November 1st, 2004, 05:50 PM
Christian Faulhammer
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Robert M. Franz schrieb:
Christian Faulhammer wrote:
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I'm writing a running newsletter and I
want to put it into PDF for it's compaction plus the Adobe reader is
free.

[..]
and it sounds to me you need a DTP program, not a word
processor, otherwise you could use plain text. Maybe OpenOffice Writer
is a choice for you, it has direct PDF support.

For a Newsletter that is primarily read on-screen and printed out on
unknown machines - I can't imagine there's much Word cannot do in that
field ... Esp. since you mention OO (which is a text-processor as
well).


I mentioned OO because it has PDF support, if Word is suitable, OO
Writer will be too.

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Old November 2nd, 2004, 07:11 PM
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Hi Doug,

On the Adobe site itself you can create free PDFs.

The link is: createpdf.adobe.com

They let you make 5 PDFs for free with their online trial version.

Anyway, has anyone been down this path and care to give me some hints to
tools an/or procedures. If there is better forum to ask this question,
please advise.


They are competitors.

is there some reason why Word does not allow .pdf as a save option?


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Old November 3rd, 2004, 03:00 AM
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"ivan walsh" wrote in message
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Hi Doug,

On the Adobe site itself you can create free PDFs.

The link is: createpdf.adobe.com

They let you make 5 PDFs for free with their online trial version.


Ivan,

Thanks but what do I do after the 5? I guess I could creat fake Yahoo
ids. There is $10 a month fee thereafter and my club is non-profit and
thinly financed.

Then there is GOBCL which is totally free regardless of the number of
times. Unfortunately, it has a size limit and I'm way over it.

-Doug




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Old November 3rd, 2004, 02:36 PM
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"E. Barry Bruyea" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 02:00:50 GMT, "Doug Freese"
wrote:
Thanks but what do I do after the 5? I guess I could creat fake Yahoo
ids. There is $10 a month fee thereafter and my club is non-profit and
thinly financed.

Then there is GOBCL which is totally free regardless of the number of
times. Unfortunately, it has a size limit and I'm way over it.

-Doug



I think we've all been missing something.
If you've got the Adobe
reader, it will list a pdf printer on your printer list. Just print
the file, as it prints to disk, thus converting any file to a pdf
file.


The source file is in .doc which does not save to PDf and the Adobe
reader mildly vomits when you try to open a .doc. Am I missing your
conversion process?

-DF


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Old November 3rd, 2004, 06:30 PM
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This requires a separate application. The best is probably Adobe Acrobat
(not the reader). For your use, you can probably find a free application
that will do what you want. I use CutePDF. Google for it.
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"Doug Freese" wrote in message
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I did a quick search on converting MS word documents to PDF and of
course hit oodles of stuff. I'm writing a running newsletter and I want
to put it into PDF for it's compaction plus the Adobe reader is free.
Anyway, has anyone been down this path and care to give me some hints to
tools an/or procedures. If there is better forum to ask this question,
please advise.

Probably a loaded question but is there some reason why Word does not
allow .pdf as a save option?

Thanks,
Doug Freese




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Old November 4th, 2004, 01:11 AM
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Earlier versions of Acrobat Reader did include this feature; Adobe Reader no
longer does.

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"E. Barry Bruyea" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 13:36:04 GMT, "Doug Freese"
wrote:


"E. Barry Bruyea" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 02:00:50 GMT, "Doug Freese"
wrote:
Thanks but what do I do after the 5? I guess I could creat fake Yahoo
ids. There is $10 a month fee thereafter and my club is non-profit and
thinly financed.

Then there is GOBCL which is totally free regardless of the number of
times. Unfortunately, it has a size limit and I'm way over it.

-Doug


I think we've all been missing something.
If you've got the Adobe
reader, it will list a pdf printer on your printer list. Just print
the file, as it prints to disk, thus converting any file to a pdf
file.


The source file is in .doc which does not save to PDf and the Adobe
reader mildly vomits when you try to open a .doc. Am I missing your
conversion process?

-DF


Yep. When you install Adobe Acrobat Reader, it installs "Acrobat PDF
Writer" which shows up in your printer list. While in your Word
Document, click on print, it will then throw up the printer list,
click on 'Acrobat PDFWriter' and then click 'Print'. It will ask you
where you want to put the file. Presto; your Doc is now in PDF
format. You can read it, print it, or send to your nearest & dearest
by email.






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Old November 4th, 2004, 05:53 PM
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6.0.1. If you have a PDF writer, it is a relic of a version much older than
5.

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"E. Barry Bruyea" wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:11:44 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

Earlier versions of Acrobat Reader did include this feature; Adobe Reader

no
longer does.



I have V-5; what's the latest version?


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Old November 5th, 2004, 04:44 PM
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The only "printer" of this type I have is called "Adobe PDF," and, although
I have had numerous versions of Adobe Reader, this was not installed until I
installed Adobe Acrobat 6.0.

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"E. Barry Bruyea" wrote in message
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:53:17 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

6.0.1. If you have a PDF writer, it is a relic of a version much older

than
5.


No relic. I just cleaned and reinstalled all programs less than a
month ago. As I said in my post, it is *not* a writer as such; V-5
installs Acrobat PDFwriter as a *printer* and is listed under the
installed printers. Have you checked your installed printers?


 




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