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Subject:Re: Acrobat 4.0 Good News/Bad News From:Peter Martin <peterm -at- FOXBORO -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Tue, 11 May 1999 16:06:47 +1000
At 16:47 10/05/99 +0100, Paul Kortz wrote:
>> Can you tell me how exactly the Word to PDF conversion is better?
>>
> When installed, Acrobat 4.0 places a "PDFMaker" button on your Word
>toolbar. Click on this button and the .PDF conversion is automated using
>Distiller.
This much is available if you install PDFMaker
today with Acrobat Distiller v3.01 et alia.
> There are three optimisation options, Press, Screen and Print.
Only 2 options for me at present in Word 97 with 3.01:
Print and Preferences.... The later leads to a dialogue box
with choices for image settings..
>Structured Bookmarks are automatically created as, apparently, are
>cross-reference links. With 3.0, my .PDFs suffered from "smudgy" and
>sometimes barely readable graphics when printed. This is no longer the case.
Links are coming through nicely, thanks....
Re graphics: Maybe the default image settings were wrong earlier ?
PDFMaker can be downloaded from Adobe's site.
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