Driving Me Crazy

[Lurch]

On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:02:09 +0100, maxim naumov mused:

But you still have to install something either way, a converter or PDF printer.

Fair enough, I only really use CutePDF for converting Excel invoice sheets into PDF's for emailing, saves the customer inadvertantly editing it and cocking it up!

For making PDF's if I wanted to make them properly I've got a copy of Acrobat 6 Pro round here somewhere.

[Huge]

BTW, Open Office can export to PDF's directly.

And I've not yet come across an MS Office document that Open Office won't open.

[Aidan Karley]

Alternatively you can use the method that's been available for about 2 decades - create a postscript file for sending to your postscript printer, and instead feed it to your postscript-to-PDF conversion program (hundreds available for free, or upwards in price). If you want something "official", get an Adobe PS printer driver

, then use whatever PS-2-PDF program you want to use. (Hint : this is exactly what Adobe's Distiller does. Distiller is Yet Another PS to PDF converter. With it's own selection of bugs. Personally, I use Ghostscript or PDFcreator, depending on the lack of administrative rights I have on a system.)