| Author | Time | Post | |
| rhett o rick | Oct 2012 | OP | |
| NYC_SKP | Oct 2012 | #1 | |
| NYC_SKP | Oct 2012 | #2 | |
| csziggy | Oct 2012 | #3 | |
| rhett o rick | Oct 2012 | #6 | |
| RC | Oct 2012 | #8 | |
| rhett o rick | Oct 2012 | #11 | |
| csziggy | Oct 2012 | #12 | |
| rhett o rick | Oct 2012 | #13 | |
| JBoy | Oct 2012 | #17 | |
| Downwinder | Oct 2012 | #4 | |
| Make7 | Oct 2012 | #5 | |
| rhett o rick | Oct 2012 | #9 | |
| discntnt_irny_srcsm | Oct 2012 | #7 | |
| rhett o rick | Oct 2012 | #10 | |
| glad581 | Oct 2012 | #14 | |
| rhett o rick | Oct 2012 | #15 | |
| dixiegrrrrl | Oct 2012 | #16 | |
| ChromeFoundry | Oct 2012 | #18 | |
| guardian | Oct 2012 | #19 | |
| RoccoR5955 | Oct 2012 | #20 | |
| Kennah | Oct 2012 | #21 | |
| rhett o rick | Oct 2012 | #22 | |
| Phillip McCleod | Oct 2012 | #23 |
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 04:31 PM
NYC_SKP (48,896 posts)
1. This is so not going to be helpful, but, a Mac lets you select save as PDF when you go to print.
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You might want to try it: go to print and then see if there's an option to save as a PDF.
Alternatively, try "Save as" and see if there isn't a .PDF option there. Different computer op systems vary widely as do printer options, that it's hard to help. Give these things a try, though. |
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 04:33 PM
NYC_SKP (48,896 posts)
2. Update: Word for Mac 2008 lets you "save as" and then you select PDF.
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I hope that your version of Word lets you do the same.
Otherwise, I hope someone else with a PC can suggest an app. |
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 04:38 PM
csziggy (14,216 posts)
3. I like Cute PDF
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Free PDF application that shows up as a printer option so you print to PDF with ANY program: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
I also use it a lot to save web pages as PDFs - if I set my browser printer application to print the date and the URL on the page, it saves those in the PDF so I always know where I got that material. |
Response to csziggy (Reply #3)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 05:15 PM
rhett o rick (26,763 posts)
6. Thanks. It says "Requires PS2PDF converter such as Ghostscript ". What is that? nm
Response to rhett o rick (Reply #6)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 05:52 PM
RC (21,640 posts)
8. PS2PDF converter is a second file you need to download and run.
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It should be on the same page as CutePDF
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Response to rhett o rick (Reply #6)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 07:58 PM
csziggy (14,216 posts)
12. Its a script that allows the program to run
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PS2PDF = PostScript to Portable Document Format
There is a link on the page so you can download the needed file to install it. |
Response to csziggy (Reply #12)
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 12:32 PM
rhett o rick (26,763 posts)
13. Thank you. nm
Response to csziggy (Reply #3)
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 11:11 AM
JBoy (7,464 posts)
17. +1 for CutePDF.
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I use it all the time, and it's fantastic.
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Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 04:41 PM
Downwinder (7,135 posts)
4. You can open a word file in Open Office and
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export it to PDF.
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Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 05:00 PM
Make7 (6,410 posts)
5. Open Office should probably open most Word documents...
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Last edited Sat Oct 6, 2012, 05:01 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1) ... and allow them to be saved as a PDF. Not sure of the degree of compatibility with MS Office 2010 documents - it does handle older versions fairly well.
http://www.openoffice.org/ Or you could try an online conversion site if you are only doing a small number of documents. I found the following one on a discussion board about Open Office compatibility issues (I haven't tried it - so I can't say how well it works): http://www.zamzar.com/ BTW - I'd probably use (or set up) an anonymous web email account with that site. |
Response to Make7 (Reply #5)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 06:20 PM
rhett o rick (26,763 posts)
9. Thanks. I d/l openoffice and used that. nm
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 05:52 PM
discntnt_irny_srcsm (5,684 posts)
7. The is an MS-Word...
Response to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Reply #7)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 06:22 PM
rhett o rick (26,763 posts)
10. Thank you. I should have mentioned I have Word 2003. nm
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 06:02 AM
glad581 (2 posts)
14. Use this tool
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I have a copy of Kernel for Word to PDF, you can also download and use this tool, the good thing about this tool is its easy to use interface and capability to manage the original formatting of the word file.
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Response to glad581 (Reply #14)
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:31 PM
rhett o rick (26,763 posts)
15. Thank you. nm
Response to rhett o rick (Reply #15)
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 07:10 PM
dixiegrrrrl (30,888 posts)
16. I have copied and pasted a word doc
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into an outgoing email message ( Thunderbird) which lets me save it as a PDF file.
Then discard the email. Course, you cannot edit the pdf then. |
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 12:10 PM
ChromeFoundry (2,856 posts)
18. doPDF is a free printer driver for creating PDF files.
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It will save anything you can print to a PDF file.
It is free and requires no additional software to be installed. Simply select the "doPDF" printer from your print options in the application. You are prompted for a filename to save your output. http://www.dopdf.com/ |
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Thu Oct 11, 2012, 03:19 PM
guardian (2,282 posts)
19. PDF995
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I used to use pdf995 (http://www.pdf995.com/) with Office 2003. Its was free and worked fine. I have since upgraded to Office 2010 so I don't need it anymore.
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Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Sat Oct 13, 2012, 07:13 PM
RoccoR5955 (6,498 posts)
20. If you want to convert word to PDF
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There are many good free converters. Search http://www.sourceforge.net They have lots of open source software.
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Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:15 AM
Kennah (6,749 posts)
21. pdfcreator is free
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:36 AM
rhett o rick (26,763 posts)
22. Thanks for all the suggestions. nm
Response to rhett o rick (Original post)
Mon Oct 29, 2012, 06:36 PM
Phillip McCleod (1,664 posts)
23. just a note on pdf...
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Adobe Portable Document Format extends postscript, which is historically a printer file. That's why on Macs for a while "Save as PDF..." was under "Print..."
And that's why any solution that works... works. When I was a graphic designer I usually ran it through Acrobat as a last step for print-readiness, but the whole idea is that any document that can be printed can be made into a PDF. |


