For this time, if you or Ed has a Postscript or Word version, I can
run it through the distiller here at work and get PDFs.

Dave King wrote:

You can also get free versions of pdf print drivers. These install and let
you print the document out to a pdf file format from any program. They also 
come in Linux flavors (not that anyone uses that).

Also .pdf files tend to be real large.

Don't be daft.  We *regularly* submit Word files to the distiller
and get a 90% compression ratio (output PDFs are only 10% of the
original Word size).  And Word files would certainly be smaller than
those huge scans you've been sending.

I generated a manual that had a 32mb source file with graphics and text.
I used distiller to generate the pdf and it came out to 225K.

32 meg of plain ASCII text or 32 meg of bit mapped font characters
and many high resolution jpg's?

What other WP's work other than Word? Lotus?

If you set it up and use it as the printer driver it doesn't matter what
programs.
All you do is select the pdf output to file instead of your laser printer
or what have you,
and press print.  Look at the driver output dir and there is your pdf file.

Dave

I should have said was; "What other WP's work as INPUT other than Word? Lotus?"
Many programs can make pdf print files I suspect. As far as I know you
can't view or zoom a pdf print file. For one example.

Paul Lamar
 
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