Monday, October 15th, 2007
Create Your Own Acrobat Documents
Anyone can create documents in the portable Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format… even without the Adobe Acrobat product. Microsoft Office 2007 supports saving files as Acrobat documents, which makes it easy to send your files to friends and colleagues who don’t have Office.
You can do the same thing from almost any application by installing a free Acrobat-compatible “printer driver”. You’ll be able to create Acrobat documents from any Windows application that can print to a regular printer.
A good FREE program is PrimoPDF, available at http://www.primopdf.com. This program has PDF features not available in Office 2007, such as password protection.
Vista compatible. Spyware free. No cost.
After installing PrimoPDF, you can create an Acrobat format document by “printing” — just use the application’s Print… command; then choose the PrimoPDF printer driver. You’ll be prompted with a Save As… dialog to choose a location and filename for your new PDF document. Finally, send your newly-minted PDF document to all your friends who have the free Adobe Acrobat reader!
