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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucero, Peggy
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:02 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Adobe Acrobat 6.0 VS WORD 2003
>
> 1. Are most of you who are doing tech writing using WORD or
> Adobe for your formal documentation? I understand that the
> major plus of working with Adobe is that no one can alter the
> content of the document (that is not suppose to!) But, I
> believe this is now a feature of WORD '03, being able to
> lock/password protect a document, so this can't really be
> THE reason someone chooses Adobe over WORD.
No, the main reason to choose Adobe over Word for the deliverable is that PDF files always print the same, everywhere.
> 2. I have been using WORD '03, per bosses' direction, for
> everything so far. Today a developer sent me 12 Adobe
> documents, each one is a few pages in length, and I'm
> wondering if these can be placed into the system design
> document by a cut/paste with success?
Cutting and pasting PDF isn't pretty -- consider a PDF conversion program. Google for the following: SolidPDF, AABBY FineReader, Gemini Solo, ScanSoft PDF Converter, TypeReader, DocSmartz, and LEADTOOLS ePrint. I use ScanSoft myself, but you might want to download several free trial versions to see which one works best for you.
-- Dan Goldstein
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