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General => Computers / Internet => Topic started by: tim on February 05, 2011, 11:55:38

Title: PDFing it?
Post by: tim on February 05, 2011, 11:55:38
Son has to PDF 80 pages of "This is Your Life" - my birthday book. Lots of photos + text.

He uses a Mac. Typical text page that I rather like!

What, please, is the best approach??

= Tim
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: BarriedaleNick on February 05, 2011, 12:20:18
Tim,

Mac OS X has a built-in PDF convertor.

http://www.techiecorner.com/311/how-to-convert-doc-to-pdf-in-mac-os-x/

Should do the trick.

Or try

http://www.freepdfconvert.com/

For a freeonline convertor...
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: tim on February 05, 2011, 13:11:54
Always help on hand - thanks

He's too busy writing 2 new books to have noticed that!!
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: calendula on February 05, 2011, 13:46:50
you don't say what he is using to create the original such as iwork, pages, word etc - but if you set the finished article to print you can convert it to a pdf there and then - simples  ;D

bet it will be a d**n fine piece though  :)
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: sunloving on February 05, 2011, 14:42:33
I use a free program called cute pdf. you can download it from the internet
http://www.cutepdf.com/

sounds like a fab project
x sunloving
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: tim on February 05, 2011, 15:31:45
What now? Not sure - except that it's on a hard disk & in book form.

Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: calendula on February 05, 2011, 16:04:39
presumably you want to distribute this from the hard disk to folks, hence the pdf?, so you just need to use one of the options suggested to you - whatever format it has been created on it can easily be converted

just for fun, create any old document and pretend to print it (on the mac) and see the option for making it into a pdf in the options box and then save it to the desktop then see how easy it is
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: Larkshall on February 05, 2011, 17:15:59
I don't know if other systems are the same, but my system allows you to "print to file", any file which is on screen. I have the choice of .pdf (Portable Document File) or .ps (PostScript). As long as a page of the file is showing on screen it will print the whole file.
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: tim on February 05, 2011, 17:51:57
All passed to him-who-is-doing-it. Great stuff!!
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: grannyjanny on February 05, 2011, 19:31:22
Your fans are waiting Tim ;) ;D.
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: calendula on February 05, 2011, 19:58:58
also just to say Tim that if you don't want to use the pdf choice in the print option then whenever ready and the original doc is running you can just use the 'export' option in the file menu to convert to pdf - good luck Superman  ;D
Title: Re: PDFing it?
Post by: plainleaf on February 05, 2011, 21:24:28
open office and google apps also easily convert to pdf.