How to create a PDF file, cheaply?

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Scott OQ Elyard

Brian Kvalheim - said:
Hi Scott OQ Elyard ([email protected])
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| Regardless, the puny mortals always (but always) forget FrameMaker.

I am pretty sure it's not that they have forgotten, but chosen to erase it
from their mind.


That's okay. All small men are embarassed by software smarter than they.
 
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Scott, must be tough to be so low in intellect as you.

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Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]

Hi Scott OQ Elyard ([email protected]),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| That's okay. All small men are embarassed by software smarter than
|| they.

Bawhahahahahaha
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Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
Official Publisher MVP Site:
http://www.kvalheim.org

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Christopher Forbes

The simplest way to create PDF files for free is to download Open Office
1.1. Yes, It's a big download, but it will build PDFs from any MSOffice
document. And it'd great software, and it's free!
 
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°°°MS°Publisher°°°

Great software - whose leg are you trying to pull.

The next you will be trying to tell us that Macquarie University is a good university. I would not send my dog there for training.

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illegally held prisoners they are
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Ed Bennett

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message
from Christopher Forbes said:
it will build PDFs from any
MSOffice document.

No it won't.
 
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It is worthless discussing junk/garbage/trash/rubbish.

<plonk>

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Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]

Hi John G (greentestatoptusnet.com.au)
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| Can you please explain <simply, what OO wil not do.?

Have you tried opening a Microsoft Publisher file in OOo and converting to a
pdf?

Have you seen how HORRID the conversion from Word/Excel to OOo is?

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Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
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Ed Bennett

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message
from John G said:
Can you please explain <simply, what OO wil not do.?

It will not build PDFs from any office document.
It will not open Publisher files
TMK, it will not open Access files
Or OneNote notebooks
Or InfoPath files.
And so cannot generate PDFs from them.
 
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Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]

Hi Ed Bennett ([email protected]),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a
|| message from John G <greentestatoptusnet.com.au>...
||| Can you please explain <simply, what OO wil not do.?
||
|| It will not build PDFs from any office document.
|| It will not open Publisher files
|| TMK, it will not open Access files
|| Or OneNote notebooks
|| Or InfoPath files.
|| And so cannot generate PDFs from them.
||
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|| Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
|| http://www.mvps.org/the_nerd/
|| Before reading this message, view the disclaimer:
|| http://mvps.org/the_nerd/disclaim.htm

Or Outlook PST's

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Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
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http://www.kvalheim.org

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Ed Bennett

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message
from Brian Kvalheim - said:
Or Outlook PST's

I was going to say that, but I didn't know how you'd make a PDF of an
Outlook PST
(Very carefully, probably)
 
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Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]

Hi Ed Bennett ([email protected]),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| I was going to say that, but I didn't know how you'd make a PDF of an
|| Outlook PST
|| (Very carefully, probably)

Not sure that is possible! ;-)
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Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
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http://www.kvalheim.org

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John G

Thanks Ed and Brian.
Actually I would never have tried OO for a Pub file but then the original
suggestion was that OO would work for ALL MS Office files.

Just an aside >> What would anyone want to make a PDF out of an Outlook PST
file for?
 
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°°°MS°Publisher°°°

You would not, it is just Ed Baaannett has a major problem with Alzheimers
disease.

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The US should free all those
illegally held prisoners they are
torturing, abusing and denying
human rights being held at
Guantanamo Bay.
 
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Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]

Hi John G (greentestatoptusnet.com.au),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| Thanks Ed and Brian.
|| Actually I would never have tried OO for a Pub file but then the
|| original suggestion was that OO would work for ALL MS Office files.
||
|| Just an aside >> What would anyone want to make a PDF out of an
|| Outlook PST file for?


Sh*ts and giggles? ;-)

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Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Office Publisher MVP
Official Publisher MVP Site:
http://www.kvalheim.org

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
 
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Gareth J M Saunders

The simplest way to create PDF files for free is to download Open Office
1.1. Yes, It's a big download, but it will build PDFs from any MSOffice
document. And it'd great software, and it's free!

I really like OpenOffice.org 1.1, in fact I installed it on my XP Pro system
about an hour ago -- however I would contend that it is the most efficient
and most simple way to create PDF files cheaply. Install a PostScript
printer driver from your Windows installation CD, then download and install
GhostScript and GSView (which are both free and much smaller downloads than
OOo, find them at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.htm) and you have a
simple PDF creator. Then in your application simply print to your PS
driver, and select the print to file option in your printer dialog box.
You'll be left with a *.ps file which you then open up in GSView and convert
it to PDF. You can even miss out the middle-bit by installing RedMon to
redirect the output from the Printer Driver -- I omitted this bit when I did
it as I enjoyed creating the PDF 'by hand'. All details, FAQs and
documentation are on the site.

I've got more details about creating cheap (and not so) on my website
http://www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/pc/pdf.html

Enjoy! This is how I first got into PDF creation. I then moved to PDF
Creator and now Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5.

Gareth J M Saunders
Edinburgh, UK
 
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Ed Bennett

A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from
radref said:
Get Open Office 1.1 (free).

Use OO to open the Word file and save it as a pdf.

That will only work if you find the MSWord import in Oo_Org acceptable.
There are plenty of free or shareware PDF convertors out there that don't
need to bash the document about into another program first.
Try www.pdf995.com, www.docu-track.com, or a Google search on "GhostScript"
and "GhostView"
 

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