Creating Adobe PDF's

[Rob]

I want to be able to create Adobe PDF's from word files. I think I need to convert the original document to a PostScript file first, before putting it into distiller - So how do I convert to a PS file?

[MikeR]

You can create Pdfs from word (for example or any other app) without having to go via postscript (at least in the manual sense). Download and install pdfcreator from

here To use it you print your doc using the pdfcreator printer driver rather than your usual "paper" printer.

[peter]

You may also find the Adobe online tool CreatePDF useful.

 

Peter

[Ellis]

If you really want to create a postscript file, install a postscript printer driver, attach it to a port called File: and print ot that - you will get a dialog box asking for a filename to print to.

 

HTH

 

Ellis

[andystone]

You can also download this free PDF writer www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf

[Neil Frazer]

You should be able to print directly to acrobat distiller if you have the full version. It comes up in the printers window and then asks for a file name when you print to it.

[Rob]

You should be able to print directly to acrobat distiller if you have the full version. It comes up in the printers window and then asks for a file name when you print to it.

 

Yup, exactly what I'm doing now I've figured it out! I sent out a PDF quote for the first time and got a phone call back from the customer asking for it in word format so they didn't have to download acrobat. Can't win :-)

[Stu]

Sun's Open Office has the ability to save directly to PDF from all it's various applications. Oh and the good thing is it's Freeware

 

HTH

Stu

[kalmatthew]

Sun's Open Office has the ability to save directly to PDF from all it's various applications. Oh and the good thing is it's Freeware

 

HTH

Stu

<pedant> Dont you mean Suns Star Office? Open office is the open source conuterpart, it is not a sun product </pedant>

[Stu]

I was under the impression Sun has discontinued Star Office (freeware version at least) and replaced with Open Office.

 

What the actual situation is I'm not sure...

 

Stu

[wodp]

If you use Mac OS X (10.3 is what I got with my iBook, dunno about previous versions) it actually has a Print to PDF button in the generic system print dialog.

 

 

Dave

[Guest lightnix]

I use Page Plus by Serif, a competitively priced and extremely capable piece of DTP software, which has the facility to save a document in PDF format.

[iamchristuffin]

I'm dredging up a very old topic here, but I thought I'd let everyone know (who didn't already know :huh:) that with MS Office 2007 you can download an add-on from the Microsoft website that allows you to save the document straight into a PDF, just by clicking save as, and then PDF!!

[Seano]

I'm dredging up a very old topic here, but I thought I'd let everyone know (who didn't already know :huh:) that with MS Office 2007 you can download an add-on from the Microsoft website that allows you to save the document straight into a PDF, just by clicking save as, and then PDF!!

Alternatively, by downloading OpenOffice.org you can do (almost) everything that MS Office will do (on any major platform) including export documents directly as pdf if you want, and its completely free. (Not freeware as erroneously stated above, its open source.)