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[Dogtrainer]

After hunting through adobe for a few hours I still can't find the answers that I'm looking for. What I need to know, is is it possible to turn 2-7 images (A4 size) into a .pdf format, and if so, how is it done, I have never worked with pdf before, and now I need to. What it is is a sheet music service, the pdf's will be downloaded as sort of ebooks. I just need to know about what it is I need, and how its done.

Clement

By the way: if you have an answer, could you pm me please? If you can help, and have an affiliate with adobe, I'd love to help you back in return by ordering it through your affiliate link, although I'm not sure even if adobe has affiliate, oh well, thanks again.

[brian.mark]

If you can get a hold of Adobe Distiller, you just create your document in anything, then "Print" it to distiller. It's basically a print driver that prints to a PDF instead of to a printer.

Very simple, yet effective. There are other ways to make PDF's, but this is the easiest I know of.

Brian.

[Dogtrainer]

sounds good, so would I edit the document to become a pdf, well what would I edit it in?

[StevenAllen]

I can never get these documents to print in PDF?

[brian.mark]

You can edit it in whatever. It seems that Word and Excel have been some of the most common. Just get your document ready to go, then print it to PDF.

StevenAllen, what version of Distiller are you using and from what application? I've seen a few problems with printing when pages go outside of the margins, but you can set up the page size to normally be whatever you like to fix that.

Brian.

[StevenAllen]

"what version of Distiller" Where can I determine this?

[brian.mark]

On the few machines we have here with it installed, I saw it when I clicked start / all programs. It was at the bottom of the list (not in a group at all). It just stated the version by Acrobat Distiller for our install. Otherwise, I'm not sure where you'd need to go. It's not really a program to run, but really just a driver.

Brian.

[LiviLou]

The best program I've found to print to .pdf format is called PrimoPDF and it's free. It sets up as if it's a printer. There is no spyware or adware to mess up your computer. They do ask that you register it. You can check it out here, http://www.primopdf.com/

Hope this helps.

[Keimos]

Hi Dogtrainer,

You have two options.

Either pay for a PDF converter, go to PC World there are a few avialble from about 19.99 up to about 39.99 and they will link into word and most of MS Office. Distiller is great if you can afford Acrobat because you can do it from source and edit.

The free stuff is available just look around so as Livilou says there are catches for most but if her recommendation comes without any catches go for that.

Basically most of the other stuff works by simply converting a word doc into PDF so all editting need to be done before the conversion.

Unless you have the Adobe Software that is the way to go.

OpenOffice.org also has a converter in built which may be another option.

Really come down to what you can afford and what you have.

Distiller works great, we send info out from all our docs once we are sure that they are right.(MS Word)

Tip: Remember to switch back to your default printer!!

Hopefuly clearing up the above advice which is good

[slideri812]

Whay platform are you using? PC or MAC. In OS X you just select print from inside any app. One of the options at the bottom is "Print to PDF". That's it. However, some apps like Quark don't show it, so you have to select "select printer", that will open the system printer seletion window where, the print to PDF is available.

I print to PDF from Word, excel, Fireworks, Firefox and virtually any app that has a printing capabilities.

Good Luck.