pdf printing
at work i have a user that has a program that will only output to a print queue, so she want to output to a pdf virtual printer.
I know that acrobat creates a virtual pdf printer, but because of the budget acrobat is too expensive and would be over kill anyhow since she only needs a virtual printer.
I also know that there are things like cutepdf, however, in our environment, only certain approved programs are allowed.
So I tried to output to microsoft's XPS and tried to open it in word 2010, because word has the option to save as a pdf, however, that didn't work.
So would there be any way to take advance of Word's option to convert documents to a pdf with my limitations?
I know that acrobat creates a virtual pdf printer, but because of the budget acrobat is too expensive and would be over kill anyhow since she only needs a virtual printer.
I also know that there are things like cutepdf, however, in our environment, only certain approved programs are allowed.
So I tried to output to microsoft's XPS and tried to open it in word 2010, because word has the option to save as a pdf, however, that didn't work.
So would there be any way to take advance of Word's option to convert documents to a pdf with my limitations?
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hope you guys don't mind - but with a post like that - I had to give the most points to BillDL
thank you for the help
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Thank you Jeff. I hope you find a PDF Printer that suits the user's needs.
> hope you guys don't mind
Don't mind at all...that was an awesome post by Bill!
For me, having text (rather than image) is very important, as I like to be able to index and search documents with a powerful search tool (dtSearch). It does me no good if the PDF is pure image (unless, of course, I run OCR against it to create a so-called PDF Searchable Image file). But my experience with the PDF print drivers has been that they all create PDF files with text (so-called PDF Normal files) as long as the source material itself is text, such as a web page with textual content or a Word file. My experience has also been that [Save As PDF] in Word 2007 and Word 2013 (I skipped Word 2010) creates a PDF Normal file (i.e., text, not image). Regards, Joe
Don't mind at all...that was an awesome post by Bill!
For me, having text (rather than image) is very important, as I like to be able to index and search documents with a powerful search tool (dtSearch). It does me no good if the PDF is pure image (unless, of course, I run OCR against it to create a so-called PDF Searchable Image file). But my experience with the PDF print drivers has been that they all create PDF files with text (so-called PDF Normal files) as long as the source material itself is text, such as a web page with textual content or a Word file. My experience has also been that [Save As PDF] in Word 2007 and Word 2013 (I skipped Word 2010) creates a PDF Normal file (i.e., text, not image). Regards, Joe
It would be interesting to compare the PDFs created by Word's native Save As > PDF vs File > Print > "Named PDF Printer" for "selectability" of text and images and accuracy of original layout when opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader.