Re: Word to pdf????

[Marilynne Smith <marilyns -at- qualcomm -dot- com>]

Get a version of Adobe Acrobat.  5.0 would be my preference as the 
distiller is part of the tool here.  Install it.  Keep a shortcut to it handy.

Open your Word document and print to file.  Use Distiller as the 
printer.  For reasons unknown to anyone, this will create a .prn file, not 
a .ps file as expected.

Open Acrobat and select Tools -> Distiller.  (With older versions Distiller 
is a separate tool.)

For a first go, just accept Distiller defaults.  You can change them later, 
if necessary.

From Distiller, choose File, Open.  Browse to your .prn file.  Distiller 
is looking for a .ps file, which is not there.  Change the options so you 
can see all files.

Select your .prn file.

Press Enter.

Distiller will ask where you want it to put the .pdf file.

Distiller will process the .prn file and produce a .pdf file.  You can open 
this .pdf file in Adobe Acrobat.

If this doesn't work, I've left out a step or two.  <grin>  Let me know 
where you get into trouble.

Marilynne


At 11:48 AM 7/13/2001 +0100, Marcus Cumming wrote: