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, Therese Hamilton

<eastwest@s...> wrote:

> Derek, I know that the newer versions of WordPerfect can generate

a pdf

> file. Can't WORD do this also? Are you using an optical scan

program that

> converts to a word processor format? Maybe it's just my computer,

so I hope

> others can read your doc file.

>

> Therese

>

REPLY:

In order to " print " to a Adobe.pdf file you must have Adobe

Writer and several othe programs installed on your computer. Word

and other word processors generally don't bundle the very expensive

Adobe software with their program. Of course, Adobe Reader is

freely available but that's only to encourage sales of Adobe Writer,

etc. As I noted, if someone has a magazine article they would need

to scan/copy to a file and then paste that image/file into a word

processor such as WordPerfect, Word or Publisher. Then, that

document could be " printed " to Adobe Distiller which would write

the .pdf file. For a large number of printed articles of several

pages each, the individual pages would need to be scanned, then

pasted into successive pages of a single multi-page document, then

that document could be used to generate a .pdf file.

 

We can run a pilot project, but the process seems pretty straight

forward unless someone knows the process better than I do (and that

is quite likely as I seldom need to write .pdf files). My only

concerns are that of legalities (storing and disseminating an

author's work and a publishers format) and time-to-do-it (it might

take some amount of time to process a number of documents from

multiple sources). And, again, we need (IMHO) a heading format to

identify the name of the document, the author, time of publishing,

source of information, and description of content. Dave.