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JULIANN E JENKINS canyon at LIBRARY.UCLA.EDU
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:12:54 -0600 Benjamin Sher <sher07 at mindspring.com>
wrote:
> 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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