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Converting Word documents to Acrobat is easier than it looks at first.
Getting high quality results takes some time and practice.
First of all, you must have the full version of Acrobat, not just the free
Acrobat Reader.
If you installed Acrobat after you installed Word you should have an Acrobat
button on the Toolbar, or access to an Acrobat toolbar from the
View->Toolbars option.
Also read the Help pages in Acrobat itself.
If your Word document is mainly text, you may be able to ship the PDF
created by the macro activated by the toolbar button. If your document has
complex formatting and lots of graphics, you'd be better served by creating
a PostScript file and then running Acrobat Distiller, where you have much
more control. If words like "PostScript file" scare you, <grin>, I suggest
you check out the user forums at the Adobe Web site, and on www.pdfzone.com,
for help and advice (and warnings for new users!)
Good luck
David Farbey mailto:david -dot- farbey -at- lazysoft -dot- com
Technical Writer
Lazy Software Ltd., UK http://www.lazysoft.com
Phone: 01628-642314
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From: Robert Rinehart [mailto:rrinehart -at- smithdata -dot- net]
Sent: 27 May 2002 14:32
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Adobe Acrobat-Learning and Upgrading
This morning we received our Random Directive of the Day, which is to
convert two of our manuals from Word to PDF and put them on CD. This is all
new to us. I will be doing it because we only have one Adobe (4.0) and it is
on my computer. I've never used it before and am about to start learning. We
have no other docs in PDF or on CD.
Should we upgrade to a more recent version? The powers that be will demand
lots of good reasons, even though it is (I hear) not too expensive, so any
contributions to my argument are welcome.
Also, are there any common beginner errors or potential disasters to this
conversion process that some of you may be able to warn me of?
Robert Rinehart
Technical Writer
Smith Data Processing
rrinehart -at- smithdata -dot- net
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