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Subject:Re: Converting Word files to PDF From:George Mena <George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 7 May 1998 13:32:07 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Mena
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 1:28 PM
> To: 'Eric Thomas'
> Subject: RE: Converting Word files to PDF
>
> I should also say I have both Word97 and FrameMaker 5.5 on my system
> here at work.
>
> I can save Word files as PDFs because I also have FrameMaker
> installed.
>
> And thank you, Charity Tahmaseb. =D You know what for. --George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Thomas [SMTP:eathomas -at- DBITS -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 12:13 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Converting Word files to PDF
>
> I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in converting
> Word 97
> files to PDF files? I've been working with Acrobat 3.01, and
> for the most
> part, things work out fine. However, my screenshots end up
> looking really
> jagged and losing information no matter what I do. Does anyone
> know how to
> get the bmp format graphics to export to PDF via Distiller or
> PDFWriter
> with the same clarity as if they were printed on the actual
> printer from
> Word? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
> advance.
> -Eric
>
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