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Yes, Lee -- thanks -- I can use all the help in this area I can get! -- Dr. Deb > I hadn't realised that you could now save as a pdf from within MS Office - > this is a very useful feature. However, I'd suggest that the different > coding systems between that option and Cute pdf (or other printing > options) aren't as consistent in their output size as we'd like to > believe. Following Richard's email, I just tried a quick (similar) > experiment saving a Publisher 2010 file of size 167kb. Saving it "as" a > pdf from within the program produced a file of 266kb, whereas "printing" > it through Cute pdf produced a file of just 88kb. Again, no difference in > output quality was discernible by me. > > I'd suggest that this could run for some time and that neither of the two > options is consistently superior to the other. Instead, we have two ways > of creating pdf files for free - we can only be grateful for that since > they're increasingly essential for the dissemination of reports, both > within academia and the commercial world. > > Best regards, > > Lee G. Broderick. BA (Hons), MSc, FZS > Zooarchaeologist > www.zooarchaeology.co.uk > > This e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is > addressed and may contain information that is private and confidential. If > an addressing or transmission has misdirected this e-mail, please notify > the author by replying to this e-mail. If you are not the intended > recipient you must not use, disclose, copy, print or rely on this e-mail. > > We sweep all outgoing messages for the presence of computer viruses. > However, we cannot accept any responsibility for any loss or damage to > your systems due to viruses or malicious code not detected. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Wright > Sent: 13 July 2010 20:36 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Creation of PDF's already Easy > > I distribute a manual for human craniometry, which has about 50 pages of > text and 10 colour images. > > The Word document is 18.3 MB. > > CutePdf prints the file with a size of 14.7 MB, DoPDF with a size of > 14.3 MB (so not much difference between the two printers). > > Saved as a PDF from Word 7, the size is 3.8 MB. > > So saving, rather than printing, looks like being the way to go. > > There is no discernible difference in quality between all the versions. > > Richard Wright > > > On 13/07/2010 19:53, Greg Campbell wrote: >> Dear Zooarchers: For those of you running Microsoft Office, you can >> choose to save files created in Word 2007 and Word 2010 as Adobe .pdf >> files, by choosing >> >> -> File -> Save As -> Save as .pdf. in the menu. >> >> For you freeware folk, you can also create Adobe .pdf files in >> Sun/Oracle's OpenOffice (which also runs on Linux and Apple Mac), by >> choosing >> >> -> File -> Export as .pdf, >> >> and working through the options in the menu. >> >> Greg Campbell >> > > >