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Creating PDF Files 1

The full Acrobat suite is required for the creation of PDF files.

  • From any application, simply print to PDF
  • choose Adobe PDF as printer
  • Distiller options are set in printer options dialog
  • In Word/Powerpoint/Excel, use PDFmaker macro via toolbar button create PDF to create PDF

You can also simply open most types of files within Acrobat, and they will be converted to PDF on the fly. Note that this does not work in Reader. Acrobat 6 can even merge multiple documents of different types in this way. Other applications offer native PDF output, e.g. Photoshop and page layout programs. Mac OS X has native PDF support for everything, although not optimized for size.

Make sure to install Acrobat after MS Office, so the PDFmaker macro becomes available to Word/Powerpoint.


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