[j.brown]

Hi guys, I need to create PDF documents from my MS word files. How do I do it?

[ozziebeanie]

http://www.cutepdf.com/
Not used it myself but someone else i know has and works well so i am told

[ViprXX]

A quick search on google I found the site http://www.doc2pdf.net/
Its free and seems like an ok site but I've never tried it myself but figured I'd give you the option.

good luck.

Later

[daniel_b2380]

j.brown,
welcome to tech support guy,

here are a few links you can browse though to help make up your mind as to which application to try - [most have links for the downloads]:
http://forums.techguy.org/business-a...-document.html

http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...ile-one-i.html

http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-...pdf-files.html

http://forums.techguy.org/business-a...-word-doc.html

http://forums.techguy.org/business-a...doc-files.html


here is the search i got them from if you want to look at more suggestions:
http://forums.techguy.org/search.php?searchid=57063

[Wino]

You can download the latest open office.org suite (it's free). It will open old Word files and the new .docx. Their Writer (=to MS Word) program in suite will convert the doc to pdf when instructed. It works well for me and preferred, even though I have Adobe Acrobat Pro. The following link will take you to Open Office download page:

http://www.openofficedownload.org/ve...eid=1041572243

[JohnWill]

I use CutePDF to create PDF files from anything that prints, and I can highly recommend it. It's just a print driver that appears as a normal printer. It's the most painless way to create PDF's from any application that can print.

[hewee]

doPDF6.2 free PDF converter

Convert to PDF
doPDF6.2 installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer. Screenshot below shows how easy it is to create a PDF file from Microsoft Word (word to pdf):

I have it and it works great.

Some times web pages will not show right but also same web pages will not save right to begin with so it is the web site and not your computer or programs.

To get around something like that is to get screen shot of the page.
Bad thing is now you can not edit because the whole page is one image.
But I use FastStone Capture for that.
http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
Or Last free version.
http://www.freewarearena.com/html/Do...s/id=1993.html

[daniel_b2380]

Some times web pages will not show right but also same web pages will not save right to begin with so it is the web site and not your computer or programs.

hewee,
i use ie, and with ms office, it is integrated - so there is a short-cut in my browser to edit a web-page in ie with notepad or word



edit: then you could just print to a pdf

question though, does that 'mess with' adobe reader as far as the 'opening' of pdfs or try to take over any extensions - xx.pdf??

[hewee]

daniel_b2380,

It is the page formating and things like that, that are effected some times.
I should get seamokey or the older netscape so I can edit web pages.
Even then it is not as easy as it was years ago because even with the paged saved to your PC the coding wants to go out to get ads or could even be made to show a blank page. I Comcast I got the comcast phone modem and they will not let you copy the phone log so too a screen shot. If I save the page it saved and when I open it you can see the formating was losted but then right away the page blinks and you only see a white blink page. Some other sites do the same and that was a web base email. To much junk in a web page and not the simple .html but all the java script.
Like even when it was html page like years ago when that other big ad company about 10 years ago that was fighting with double click. I forget the name but they went under later. But the forum back then was run from one of there servers. They had tons of trouble and ads would not show up. But the coding was so bad if the ads did not show up then nothing would because it was made so the ads load first. We got lot of ad free time because the Admin or owner of the site got them to turn off the ads many times because that was the only way the site would load pages. Then he gave us an IP address to use so we did not have to go tru the DNS lookup and that made it a lot faster. Had faster page loads sometimes back then with a 28K modem then with cable today because of how web pages are made and the ads. Like the use of your back button to get to a page that should load right away because it is in your cache. But no it has to go out to reload the ads etc still so it was just as slow as any new page that is not in the cache.

[daniel_b2380]

hewee,
don't you use a host file?