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[ashok at magicalkenya.com]

the followin is a simple way of converting word to pdf using ghostview

1) Goto the start menu -> settings -> printers and select 'Add Printers'

2) Select 'Local Printer' when it prompts you for a local or network
printer.

3) From the list of printers select any printer ending with 'PS' , this
indicates that the printer has PostScript support. I generally chose
something like 'HP Color Laserjet 5/5M PS'.

4) Click Next and in the next screen select the Port as FILE:.

5) Click Next again and finish. (Say no to default printer).

6) Download and install GhostView from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

7) Now launch the Word Document that you want to convert to PDF in winword.

8) In winword select File->Print. In the printer name select the name of
the printer that you just added. and check the option 'Print to file'. Now
click OK.

9) In the 'Print to File' Save As dialog save the file to a folder as
filename.prn.

10)Now launch ghostView .

11)Use file->open to open filename.prn in GhostView.

12)Now use file->print. The printer setup dialog is displayed.

13)Select 'device:' as pdfwrite, select 'resolution:' as 300 , select
'Print to File' and click ok, enter the output file name when prompted as
your filename .pdf.

14)Thats it ! you can now view your old word document as a PDF file in
acrobat reader.