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Subject:Re: Corel Office Suite 2000 and pdf From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:DANIEL D HALL <misterhall -at- prodigy -dot- net> Date:Tue, 07 Mar 2000 19:39:44 -0500
DANIEL D HALL wrote:
>
> Greetings, all.
>
> We are looking to switch from printed docs (currently created in Word) and
> HTML docs (currently created w/ Macromedia's Dreamweaver) to electronic file
> delivery - namely, pdfs.
>
> My questions: is there anyone on the list currently using Corel Office Suite
> 2000, and if so, have you attempted to use the "Save as pdf" option? In
> earlier iterations of Corel software, support for pdf format has been
> spotty, at best. Is this new software better, worse, or ??? Are the files
> that are created true to the original? Are graphics supported? Corel has
> licensed the format from Adobe, so I was hoping it would be improved.
>
> The reason for considering this option over Acrobat is, of course, cost. We
> can license the 5 or 6 copies of Corel that we whould need at a rate with
> which Adobe cannot hope to compete.
Dan, for straight text the print to PDF is fine, depending of the fonts
used. When you mix in graphics you will get some hiccups. The consensus
is to wait for SP3, which is due about the end of March. YMMV
--
Peter
Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig.
You soon realize they both enjoy it.
