[u3aavcuss] Creating PDFs from ANYTHING except root vegetables
- From: "Mike Bean" <Mike.Bean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <u3aavcuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:38:53 -0000
Tony Dobbs and Jim McKay (esteemed committee members both) want to know how
to make a PDF version of a Microsoft Publisher document in one step.
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Well, not only can we create PDF files directly from Microsoft Publisher, we
can produce PDF files from any PC software that can print its output to a
... er ... printer!
There are dozens of products that do this in almost exactly the same way:
pdf995, CutePDF, PDF4Free, PrimoPDF, PDFcomp, VeryPDF etc., etc. I have used
several of them in the past but the one I use for commercial publishing and
101 personal uses almost daily is CutePDF and as it is recommended by many
publications I suggest you chose it.
CutePDF is Freeware and is, effectively, a printer driver but the printer is
not a physical one but a program that takes the regular output that would
normally be printed by, say Microsoft Publisher, and builds a PDF document
and stores that where you want using the familiar style Windows file handler
panel.
Installation of CutePDF adds a new 'printer' in the Print dialogue panel,
used by all Windows programs, adding a new name to the list of printers
available: 'CutePDF Writer'.
Download it from: http://www.cutepdf.com/, making sure you select the 'Free
download (Vista ready)' path and install it in the usual way - that's it!
Once installed, for any program that can print, you can choose EITHER to
print in the normal way to a physical printer OR, by changing the selected
printer at print time to 'CutePDF Writer' and hit Print it will, after a
moment, ask you what the PDF should be named and where it should be stored
and Robert is your mother's brother.
Mike Bean
Oh ... the root vegetables? Always a problem. I suggest you stay clear of
digitizing any root vegetable, especially carrots and parsnips, results can
be unpredictable and occasionally messy.
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