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
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Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Making Creation of PDF's Easy
> To all on the Zooarch list -- Often and anon since joining this list I've
> felt guilty for not responding more often to the many requests for PDF's.
> Certainly I have been the recipient and beneficiary of many useful papers
> that you-all have been kind enough to forward to me, and I feel it's only
> fair to respond in kind. What has held me back was the dreadful difficulty
> of turning whatever papers or other writings I might have contributed into
> PDF's.
>
> But no more! My friend & colleague Dr. Bob Timm of the University of
> Kansas Museum of Natural History, Division of Mammals, clued me in this
> past week to a download that anybody can get for free off the Internet
> that solves all the difficulty. The thing is called "Cute PDF Writer" and
> you get it by going to http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp.
>
> You first have to download something called "ghostwriter", and then once
> that's installed, you download the Cute PDF writer. It installs itself so
> that if you are in MS-Word or Photoshop, and you select "print", Cute PDF
> Writer appears as one of the options. If you print via this option, with a
> single click it makes whatever you're printing into a PDF document.
>
> The one downside is that it also automatically puts a toolbar that you
> might not want (from "Ask.com") in your browser. However thankfully this
> has an "options" button with an easy uninstall.
>
> Just thought I'd mention this....there might be one or two other people on
> this list whose computers don't have easy PDF conversion software already
> installed. -- Dr. Deb
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