[thelist] word to pdf?

dan donaldson dan at omnivore.ca
Mon Mar 11 12:42:01 CST 2002


On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 12:54  PM, Erika Meyer wrote:

> how do you turn a word doc into an acrobat file?  I've tried starting
> from acrobat.  it doesn't seem to recognize the doc.  I've tried
> starting from word. it doesn't seem to give me the choice of
> exporting as pdf.
>
> I even tried going to the little book that came with acrobat.
>
> nothing.
>
> anyone know how to turn a word doc to pdf?
> (I'm on a mac OS 9, if that matters.)

If you're running OS X, you can choose print from the file menu, then
choose preview in the dialog box. The resulting postscript file will
open in Preview and you can save it from there. Basic, but it works.

dan




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