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Subject:Re: Japanese PDF file creation From:David Wood <dave -dot- wood -at- MARRIOTT -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:58:01 EST
Martin Thirlway writes:
>I am using Japanese W'95 and Word to create help from Japanese
>DOC files. Now I have been asked to provide PDF files as well. I
>have the Japanese reader from Adobe. Printing to a postscript
>file and using the Distiller results in PDFs which are basically
>unreadable, I think because everything is being held as bitmaps.
>What I think I need is a PDF driver that will create the PDF
>files directly from the Word documents.
I think that Adobe Acrobat Exchange does what you describe.
Supposedly it installs as a Windows printer driver and allows you
to print directly to PDF. I'm not sure about a Japanese version,
though.
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