Publishing in PDF format for free

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear friends:

I would like to bring to your attention the fact that you can
publish your MSWord documents in PDF format for free.
There are two ways: One comes free with Office XP (or
MSWord 2002), which works in conjunction with the new
Acrobat Reader 5.05 (the FREE reader, NOT the full
Acrobat program).  The URL is the: http://www.acrobat.com.
The new Acrobat Reader 5.05 comes with the
AcrobatPDFWriter printer driver, which allows you to save
any MSWord doc file (no matter how long) as a PDF file,
which can be read for free by anyone using the Acrobat
Reader (any version).

This thereby guarantees that your readers will see your
document EXACTLY as it should be seen, no matter what
their platform (Windows, Mac or Linux) or word processor,
even version of MSWord. When a word processing
document is converted from one program to another (such
as from Word to WordPerfect) or even from one version of
Word to another (from MSWord 97 to 6) or from Windows
MSWord to Mac MSWord, there are always discrepancies
that mess up the hard work you have done.

PDF is the ideal way to publish certain articles that must be
viewed precisely the way they were composed,including
images, footnotes, etc. precisely the way they were
composed, arranged and formatted by the writer. As you
know, it is impossible or at least very inconvenient to add
footnotes to HTML documents.

Here are the step-by-step instructions:

Download the latest Acrobat Reader 5.05, which comes with
an Acrobat PDF Writer driver. This driver simulates a print
driver. Then in MSWord, select PRINT, then in the box
listing your printers, select the AdobePDF Writer driver, then
click OK. If you select the AdobePDF driver, clicking on
PRINT, selecting the AdobePDF driver and clicking OK will
NOT PRINT OUT on your printer. Instead, it will bring up a
new dialogue box). In this box, you will see a PDF extension
waiting for you. Just type in a name, save it in a folder of
your choice and click OK. Then shut down MSWord 2002
and go to the folder and the new PDF file, click on it and it
will open up in Acrobat Reader (or else open it directly in
Acrobat Reader).

If you don't own Word 2002, there is another solution that's
just as good, thanks to the kind folks at Open Source. A
group of programmers at PDF995 created a PDF printer
driver that does the exact same thing and is used in the
exact same way as above. In fact, that's what I used until I
got Office XP. PDF995 was created by Open Source
programmers to get around the high price for the full
Acrobat program (the Acrobat Writer PDF driver is very
new). It's available at:

http://site4.pdf995.com/download.html

In fact, it is free, but you have to put up with an ad screen
when using it (this does not in any way affect or get in the
way
of actually creating professional quality PDF documents). It
is exactly identical to the new AdobePDFWriter driver and
works in exactly the same way. If you wish to remove the
ad, you are asked to pay ten dollars, to be exact $9.95
(that's the reason for the name of the web site). It's up to
you.


Benjamin

Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
sher07 at mindspring.com

Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
sher07 at mindspring.com

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