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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 >