| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | Acrobat and Word |
| Date: | Wed May 9 06:35:25 2001 |
> PS - I don't know if I mentioned it in the last, and I'm sure this is
> something else I've missed along the way, but how DOES one construct a
> .PDF?
You use a separate piece of software, most commonly Acrobat Distiller or
PDFWriter, both by Adobe. PDFWriter is a Windows "printer driver" -- it
apears in your list of printers, but when you "print" to it, it saves a PDF
file on your hard drive. To use Distiller, you need to install a Postscript
printer driver, and use it to print to file. Then you open the Postscript
file in Distiller, and let it convert that to a PDF.
Once you've got this PDF, you can make minor changes to it, and insert
stuff like editable fields, using Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader).
> Because as I mentioned I like the layouts you get with those. I DLed
> some character sheets from the Plastic Warriors site a few days ago and
> they were beautifully done.
Those were made in Adobe Pagemaker, which is professional DTP software
(it'll set you back a couple thousand US dollars, IIRC -- no, I didn't buy
it :) and then turned into PDFs using Acrobat Distiller.
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