Creating pdf files

[FreeChile]

Re: Re: Re: Creating pdf files

Thanks, Leif, but I am dubious about using any "export" tool. I suspect these tools are just printer drivers supplied by Adobe and can be incorporated into any word processor. If this is true, there is no advantage to the programs you cite. I would have to learn them but then would be subject to the same export limitations. Unless you know that these word processors have some inherent advantage over WordPerfect or any other such tool in regard to the "export to pdf" capability.

Doesn't Acrobat Distiller come with Acrobat Reader, for free. If so you should be able to print anything to it from any Windows App. So you may try using MS Word or some other word processor.
You could even drop LIS (PostScript) files into Distiller and convert those to PDF.

Try other sites that specialize on PDF. They may be of additional information.

PDF Zone
Planet PDF
Active PDF

 

[FreeChile]

The latter. The form file is just a little graphic for the return address and, of course, the script that generates the addresses themselves. The merge itself, for about 125 people, takes less than a second and the "published pdf" version is less than 2 Megs since it is so simple.

Next month I will be trying Zep's tools and maybe I can simplify the process even more. After that, I'll find a new editor and the process (for me) will have been simplified out of existence.

Another possibility is to have another document that simply contains the label information in the right place and have Kinkos reuse the already printed newsletter page where that information goes. This could be done prior to collating. This way you only need one newsletter in your PDF and not the many merged ones. Kinkos would simply be photocopying it, letting them dry, and printing a document of labels over the copies. The labels can be in any WordPerfect format.

However, they may not want to run the pages of pre-printed documents throught their equipment.

 

[reefpip]

The correct Adobe program for producing PDF files from Wordperfect is Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Pagemaker. It costs $300 and it is as easy/fast to make PDF files with it as it is to print files. Adobe Pagemaker will make PDF files, but you should only buy that if you want a more powerful program to use to produce your newsletters (and Pagemaker is VERY powerful).

I don't think you can get Distiller for free, but you can produce PDF files without it using the ghostscript group of programs and using a postscript driver (your computer probably comes with one. Just use the apple laserwriter II driver and print to file).


By the way, I myself did buy Adobe Acrobat a while back (I bought the Adobe Publishing collection, actually). Adobe Acrobat is a nice product to have.


And yes, this technique for exporting is basically just using a special print driver. If one considers exactly what a PDF file is and what it is for, this should not come as a surprise.