.doc to .pdf

[Viper]

I've received a 9Mb word file which would be easier to distribute as .pdf I've got acrobat 5 but havent installed it yet, will it allow me to import a word document and save as a .pdf ? as version 4 doesnt

or any other suggestions

>>> Edited by Viper on Thursday 22 January 19:23

[FourWheelDrift]

I can only give you advice of what I've done. I installed Acrobat, when you do it puts 2 extra icons into Word which allows you to convert a .doc to .pdf

I don't think it can be done without installing it.

[ErnestM]

Install Acrobat...

Ignore the "icons" Better results can be achieved by printing to the Acrobat "printer driver" after installation...

ErnestM

[brumster]

Yep, Acrobat gives you a 'pretend' printer which will convert to a .pdf anything you can print out of another application.

Might be stating the obvious, but this doesn't include Acrobat *Reader*, naturally... :-S

[Marshy]

The people that make Fineprint also do something for producing PDFs. If you're the sort that likes to pay for software, this is a cheap alternative. www.fineprint.com

Or, find someone with MS Word on a mac running OS X and get them to do it - PDF generation is built in.

[tuffer]

If it is not sensitive send it to someone who has Adobe Distiller (me) and have then convert and send back.

[Bodo]

Marshy said:

The people that make Fineprint also do something for producing PDFs. If you're the sort that likes to pay for software, this is a cheap alternative. www.fineprint.com Or, find someone with MS Word on a mac running OS X and get them to do it - PDF generation is built in.

So does OpenOffice www.openoffice.org - OSS version of Sun's Star Office reads and writes *.doc, *.ppt, *.xls and other documents, and has a built in PDF generator.

[Viper]

thanks Guys, used Acrobat 6 standard in the end, condensed it down to just over 1MB