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locoboy - 31/1/05 at 12:25 PM

Hi fellas,

I need to turn a couple of publisher documnets into PDF's

I have Adobe acrobat reader but dont know how to convert the publisher format to a PDF.

Any advice welcomed.

Ta.


chunkielad - 31/1/05 at 12:31 PM

PDF 995

If it doesn't work try Pdf 995_2

This works as a printer driver that prints to a PDF file. You print in the standard way and chose the pdf995 driver as the printer. It prompts for a file save location and away you go.


Chris Green - 31/1/05 at 12:45 PM

You need Adobe Acrobat to write PDF files. The reader just reads them. However, you need to buy it.

As chunkielad has said, you can use a number of drivers that are available foc, so they are the cheapest option.

If you need me to create some for you, I have Abobe Acrobat, so if you e-mail them to me, I will send them back. PM me if I can be of help.

Regards,

Chris.


locoboy - 31/1/05 at 01:05 PM

Job done pdf995 did the trick foc.

Thanks

Its more than just a grease monkey forum aint it


britishtrident - 31/1/05 at 01:56 PM

If you hadn't got it to work I would have sugested Ghostscript combined with Ghostview as the front end --- avaialble for most OS a produces very portable PDF and is importantly it is open source.

[Edited on 31/1/05 by britishtrident]

[Edited on 31/1/05 by britishtrident]


dl_peabody - 31/1/05 at 05:51 PM

Open Office has a PDF creation feature.

MS Office 97 & 2000, word, excel, and powerpoint, open in Open Office suite. There is a button to creat a PDF from there.

Free to download and use, plus open file formats. I would recommend it to anyone asking....

http://www.openoffice.org


britishtrident - 31/1/05 at 08:33 PM

Open Office -- my pet hate first thing I do on a Linux install is get rid of any trace of it.


Noodle - 7/2/05 at 03:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Open Office -- my pet hate first thing I do on a Linux install is get rid of any trace of it.


Why?


britishtrident - 7/2/05 at 04:50 PM

Open Office is mainly java code its slow and wastes resources, the start up is really slow on some distros, even on modern machines with some of the faster distros that use prelinking it only just about runs at an acceptable speed. Abiword or even the much underestimated Kword are much better at everyday word processing task, while for a spreadsheet I use Gnummeric.

Trouble with office software is it always has to be bigger and better with every release -- with the exception of the introduction of html format MS Word hasn't really improved since the days of Word 97 and even that version lost useful features that were in Word 95.