Re: Suggested Pdf software

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G'Day Ken,

Just as there is Microsoft Office, there is also Star Office by Sun
Microsystems.

The core of Star Office is a suite of Programs known as Open Office.

Now Open Office is FREE - yes FREE.

The suite consists of programs that have a VERY FAIR degree of
compatibility with Microsoft Office. These include:
Writer (Word)
Calc (Excel)
Impress (PowerPoint)

Using Writer, you can open standard Word documents with a reasonable
degree of confidence.

(Similarly for Impress and Calc ...)

To address your issue, Open Office also has an excellent 'Export as PDF ...'
facility.

While I won't be giving up Microsoft Office anytime soon, I always have Open
Office installed - I have a number of correspondents, clients and students that
use Open Office/Star Office and I have inter-converted numerous Word docs
without any real problems.

You can download open Office 2.10 at:
http://download.openoffice.org/2.1.0/index.html.

Good Luck!
--
Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"Ken" <Reply to NG only> wrote in message
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I continually generate four page Word Documents with 12/14 large photos. A
business associate, with Adobe Pdf Creator, can create a Pdf file which always
comes in at 240/300kbs max. This size of file is permitted as an upload to my
business web site and often used to email my customers.

However I just can't afford to buy the software for myself and have looked at
other Pdf creating software and downloaded a number of trial programmes but
every time the file sizes are far too large. Some let you tweak the conversion
setting but some don't and some have options for screen, home printing or
professional printing sizes.

Any ideas would be very welcome as I don't mind spending £50 or so but not the
hundreds of pounds for the Adobe.

Ken






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