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Subject:Re: MS Publisher exporting to PDF??? From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:33:38 -0400
Berk/Devlin wrote:
>
> 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:
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> ==> 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.
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> But if you have really, truly done this, please do let me know.
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> (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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> TIA,
> --Emily
Been there, done that, works fine. I have Acrobat installed as a printer
and I simply print to it. You may have to play with the Acrobat settings
to get everything embedded.
I don't know anyone at Adobe. Why don't you just call them. But, try not
to talk to a drone.
--
Peter
Mailto:peternew -at- optonline -dot- net
Adapting old programs to fit new machines
usually means adapting new machines to
behave like old ones.
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