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I do this in MS Publisher 2000 once a month for a not-for-profit.
Exceedingly easy using Adobe 4.05, you can do all the tricks you can in
porting any other format to PDF. Print to Distiller, set your graphics
resolution and voila. Have never had the "formatting will be lost" message.
As to where to get a cheap copy, I can't help you there, but I know it
works.
HTH,
Connie Giordano
-----Original Message-----
From: Berk/Devlin [mailto:armadill -at- earthlink -dot- net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:55 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: MS Publisher exporting to PDF???
Please forgive if this question has already been answered on this list; I
did glance at the archives....
Foolish, foolish me! I have gone and been volunteered to webmaster for yet
another do-gooder non-profit. This particular group creates their monthly
newsletter in MS Publisher and (apparently) agonizes over the placement of
every dot. They wish to post their newsletters verbatim (well, not merely
verbatim -- pixelatim???) on-line.
Apparently, when they try to save-as some other format, such as Word or RTF,
MS-Publisher warns them that formatting and graphics will be lost. So, they
refuse to export to Word and email the Word doc to me so I can pdf it.
Before I make them buy Acrobat or beg Adobe to donate it to them, I'd like
to ascertain that:
==> If they install Acrobat, they will be able to Save-as .pdf from
MS-Publisher and lose nothing of their formatting
Please no "Well, it's theoretically possible." Please reply only if
you've-been-there-done-that-paid-for-the-t-shirt.
But if you have really, truly done this, please do let me know.
(And, if you've got a contact at Adobe whom you think might be willing to
free up a copy at a real low price, please let me know too. It's a good
group to be friendly with.)
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