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Subject:Re: word to pdf conversion -Reply From:George Mena <George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:29:31 -0700
Folks, if you're Wintel based, have Word 97 and the Acrobat suite
installed, you'll see the "Create Adobe PDF..." option added to the File
menu in Word. Click on it to select "PDF Writer" and let Distiller do
the rest. No muss, no fuss -- and no need to print to file. Just make
sure the Distiller Assistant button appears next to the Start button in
the Win95 environment.
This is called keeping it simple. :D
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Sullivan [SMTP:bsullivan -at- EMAIL -dot- EXIDE -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 9:56 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: word to pdf conversion -Reply
>
> >>Can anybody tell me if it is required to go to framemaker in order
> to
> convert word to pdf and postscript?
>
> No. Assuming you have Acrobat Distiller, Distiller Assistant and
> Exchange (mine are version 3.01), but not necessarily running, you
> open
> your Word doc and give it the Print command. From the Print dialog
> box,
> choose Distiller Assistant and click Print to File. This produces a
> .ps file
> which you open in Acrobat Distiller which automatically produces a
> .pdf
> file. [You can also choose Acrobat PDFWriter -- check the
> documentation
> for advice about this.]
>
>
