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Subject:Re: Word to PDF vs. Frame to PDF From:Jean Hollis Weber <jean -at- wrevenge -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 22 Sep 1999 16:07:35 +1000
Karen,
I think some of the answer will depend on whether you've upgraded to Acrobat 4.
My experience is very limited, but I found that converting a moderately
complex Word file using Acrobat 3 was painful and gave poor results (lack
of graphics and/or text quality) unless I did a lot of tweaking of
settings. Then I got Acrobat 4; converting the same Word file was easy,
hassle-free, and gave excellent results.
At 02:58 9/21/99 -0700, Karen Field wrote:
>What can you tell me about converting Word 97 docs to PDF vs. Frame docs to
>PDF? What I'm looking for here is confirmation that the Frame conversion is
>easier and simpler (this is one of my campaign points for getting Frame
>here).
>
>Any feedback--including the advantages of Word over Frame for this (if
>any)--are greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA,
>
>Karen Field
>kfield -at- stellcom -dot- com