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Subject:Re: Word styles for future PDF doc From:"Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:15:07 -0400
Jan,
You may be misunderstanding what a PDF is. It does not carry style information (well, it can, but it doesn't really need to for your purpose; and having it do so only bloats the PDFs).
Just work as usual in Word. Do use styles, because that is always the best way to use Word--or any other word processor. When your Word document is complete, you don't _convert_ it to a PDF so much as you _print_ it to a PDF. By that I mean that you should think of PDF as electronic paper.
The main concern you should have is that if you use PostScript Type 1 fonts, the PDF contents will be more reliably searchable than if you use TrueType fonts. So if the CD is going to have a full-text search index for the PDFs, you might want to test your fonts. If the CD is just going to be a collection of PDFs with a contents page that links to them, though, even this is not a real concern.
Dick
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From: Consultcarver -at- aol -dot- com
Reply-To: Consultcarver -at- aol -dot- com
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:58:51 EDT
>
>Greetings,
>I was hoping to find something about this in the archives, but I couldn't
>find it with Search. Maybe someone can point me to a resource.
>
>I'm creating Field Service manuals for a tech company in Word 7.0. Ultimately
>my .doc files will be converted to PDF format, burned onto a CD and
>distributed. Where can I download Styles for Word which are compatible with
>the format Adobe wants them to import them for PDF?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>Jan
>
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