Office 2007

[dkinsac]

Hello to all. We are running Windows Vista Ultimate on a 64 bit system. I need to make a pdf from a word file and no can do. I downlaoded a program called "All to PDF" but can't get it to work. Do I need to buy Acrobat or is there a way around this?

Danny

 

[mattbeals]

Well, if you have Office 2007 then use the Save As PDF/XPS plug-in from Microsoft or something like Nitro PDF. But if you don't have Office then you can take a chance on OpenOffice 3.x.

 

[Shaja]

There are all kinds of pdf creators out there, including freeware. CutePDF Writer got a good editorial review by PC World CutePDF Writer | Office Download | PC World

Adobe even has a subscription online service for creating pdfs, and you can get a free trial https://createpdf.adobe.com/.

But, if you're going to be making pdfs regularly and you need to have better control over the pdf settings for your press environment, Acrobat may be worth the investment.

 

[Shawn]

Hi Danny

There are a lot of different PDF solutions out there for Word. If you're not using Postscript fonts then the PDF export plug-in from Microsoft works the best. Note that you have to install this separately, it's free but it doesn't come with a standard Word install.
Download details: 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

Other than that I'd second the recommendation for Cute PDF. The quality of the free/cheap PDF print drivers varies enormously. I've seen issues all sorts of issues with some of them, especially with embedded fonts.

I've been steering customers towards Cute PDF for a while and it's worked out well. It doesn't produce quite as clean of a PDF as Acrobat would (fonts are embedded but the font naming gets a little weird) but it's easy to setup and generally gives good results with non-publishing programs like Word or Publisher.

Shawn

 

[dkinsac]

Word Plug-in

Word Plug-in

That seemed to do the trick! Very cool, thanks for all the help.