Tuesday, March 26, 2002

Generating PDF documents

PDF documents are convenient because they are readable across several platforms and can be accessed via URLs. They preserve formatting characteristics of the original document.

For Mac and PC: The Acrobat Reader is a free download from Adobe.com. To create PDFs, you may purchase the full version of Adobe Acrobat. For PCs: Kulawat of Milford says print from any application “to file” and tag it “.ps”. This will create a PostScript document. Then use the free PostScript-to-PDF converter in Ghostscript .
For pre OS X Macs: use the freeware extension PrintToPDF.
PDF generation is part of the Print function in Mac OS X.

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