RE: PDFs vs. Word for crispness

["technical writing plus" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

What I have seen is a range in qualities in the on-screen and printed output
of the non-Acrobat options. I would suppose that Acrobat outputs crisp pdfs,
for both online and print.

I say 'suppose' because I don't have or use Acrobat yet. I suppose that I
will. 

My way of producing pdfs from word docs, right now, is to use OpenOffice.
But OOo for pdf usually krinkles my little drawings. So how I get around
that problem is that I do not put little graphics in to start. Of course
this is not the optimal solution and I will probably spring for Acrobat some
day.

The various free and shareware pdf creation facilities that you hear about
(pdfcreator, gobcl, cutepdf, etc) seem to do a slightly better job than OOo.

Jim Jones

As to why this situation exists, and what to do to correct it, I do not have
a clue.

-----Original Message-----
Any idea why a PDF would NOT be as clear as the Word doc from which it
was generated?

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