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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:33 AM
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Tech support request! Is there a way to save a Word file as a .pdf?
Or do you need to convert it through Adobe's website?

We only have Adobe Reader on our PCs.

Thanks! :thumbsup:
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Joe Power Donating Member (778 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:34 AM
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1. Sorry
But, I think you're out of luck.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:37 AM
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2. I thought so.
:(
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:37 AM
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3.  I think you need the whole program
We have a scanner here at work that scans as a pdf, but I would guess you don't have one of those.
If you want, you could send me the file, I could scan it and send it back to you.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:38 AM
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6. I did try the scanner approach, and it worked..
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 09:39 AM by Richardo
...but the quality was horrible (lousy scanner).

I did sign up for a trial account on Adobe and they let you convert 5 docs for free. THe first one came out wunderbar!
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outergeorge Donating Member (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:38 AM
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4. Yes, this is free
SourceForge's website was down for maintainence when I grabbed this link, but they will be up shortly http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ I use this all the time at work and home.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:39 AM
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7. Cool! I'll try it...
Thanx!
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hackwriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:38 AM
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5. You need the full version of Acrobat
You have to have the full version of Acrobat, not just the reader, to save as a PDF.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:39 AM
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8. There is a program called
Robo.pdf or something like that that you can get for about $39. It saves documents to .pdf
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:50 AM
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15. I'll check it out...
thanx.
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:40 AM
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9. do you have a newer Mac in the office?
If so, you can do it there... just print as a PDF.
Its automatic.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:43 AM
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12. No - we're PC/Windows only. And some pretty old PCs at that.
I've got one of the newer machines (with Win 2003). :eyes:
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:42 AM
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10. There should be a way to set up your printer
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 09:42 AM by Beware the Beast Man
for Acrobat Distiller. Maybe that will work, but then again I'm not an expert on .pdf files.

Again, that requires the full version of Acrobat.
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:42 AM
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11. If you were using Open Office...
you could open up the word document and save it as a .pdf

A pretty large download if that's all you want to do, though. But certainly worth looking into as an alternative to Micro$oft.
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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 09:51 AM
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13. Yes there Is! Free software...
http://www.pdf995.com/pdfedit.html

Easy install/use, works fine
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:50 AM
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14. Excellent...thanx!
:yourock:
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