PC Help urgently needed please - PDF related (10)

Posted by Politesweetness on Thu 10 Dec 09, 7:42 PM to Politesweetness's blog.

Hello all,

I am pulling my hair out here. I need to write a product review for an online magazine and they have requested for it to be send as PDF.

I´m sure its easy enough, but I am just toooooo dumb it seems, please, please can you help and tell me how to save a document in pdf format?????

I am currently sitting at my old PC which uses Word and/or Works. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, Polite

Edited Thu 10 Dec 09, 8:14 PM by Politesweetness

Replies

10 Dec 09, 7:49 PM filthfromfingers UK(RG), 4 yrs	Unless you are on Office 2007, there is nothing built in that will do it for you. The Adobe PDF writer is very expensive. Download this tool. http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx You want the free version. It is installs as a Printer. Therefore in Word you will choose File, Print and then select PrimoPDF. You will then get some options, which you can complete if you wish. If you have Acrobat Reader installed on your machine, then after creating the PDF it will open and allow you to view it. S -- Turned out nice again.
10 Dec 09, 7:55 PM MisterBear UK(WA), 8 yrs	Try this. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ It should install itself as a printer and when you have finished your document, print it out using the PDF creator and it should ask you where to save it. Or you could download Open Office which let's you save as PDF.
10 Dec 09, 7:56 PM Thought_Policeman UK(SO), 2 yrs	Open Office can export files in PDF format and is free.
10 Dec 09, 8:15 PM Politesweetness UK, 6 yrs	My apologies to everybody who posted and got crossed out, I forgot to tick the box once again
10 Dec 09, 8:18 PM Politesweetness UK, 6 yrs	And also thank you for all the advice, no wonder I couldn´t work out what to do! I will try to see what works for me, looks like they´ll have to wait for the review until monday! Enjoy your weekend everyone, and thank you once again! Polite xxxx
10 Dec 09, 8:50 PM JudyInDsGuise UK(E), 9 yrs	Or you could print it and then scan it back to your computer - scanners include software to create PDFs. xx I must be only one in a million (© David Bowie)
10 Dec 09, 8:56 PM janusxuk UK(HP), 7 yrs	I use http://www.pdf995.com/ when I can't get to Adobe. Many days one day One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. The internet, a land where men are pests, women are men and kids are FBI agents!
10 Dec 09, 9:41 PM HandyD UK(M), 6 yrs	There are plenty of free online converters where you upload your document and they email the pdf copy to you. It'll save you having to install something if you're not too sure what you're doing. Try these two: http://www.k2pdf.com/convert.html http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/
11 Dec 09, 8:36 AM summberblues UK(LS), 7 yrs	Depending on how often your going to use would obvisouly suggest one of the free pdf programs out there but normally you can download a trial version of the adobe pdf program that you can use for a short time.
13 Dec 09, 10:15 PM Politesweetness UK, 6 yrs	Again, thank you all so very, very much, I have taken the cheater´s path and emailed it to a workmate who did it for me All your good advise will be looked at though, so that I won´t have to rely on others next time around! Polite x