advice about converting publisher/word files to pdf

[gerryhandke]

Can someone here advise me about how I can make a pdf file from a
Microsoft Publisher (97) file? I'm trying to speed up the work of a
printing press who are making a book of some of my poems. Idally I'd
have a pdf file that looks like the book, but if it needs to made from
a Word/rtf extraction of the Publisher file then that might do.
Ideally if you could direct me to some hassle-free and public
domain software that's tried and tested, that you'd recommend, that I
can download to do this job that'd be great.
Many thanks for any input.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Ideally if you could direct me to some hassle-free and public
domain software that's tried and tested, that you'd recommend, that I
can download to do this job that'd be great.

Although not public-domain, most of the group recommend PrimoPDF from
www.primopdf.com for a free PDF converter.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ is public-domain, but I haven't
tested it myself.

To create a PDF file, simply print to the PDF printer driver that you have
installed.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I've recommended Primo to my friends in the guild as well as members of
other non-profit groups. I haven't hear anything negative from any of them.
And since a lot of these people are the low-tech types, they seem to
appreciate how easy it is to use.