Need to be careful.  PDF is a one way street.
Word Perfect, current version, can export to it,
but not open and modify a document once encoded.
To do that you need to pay more than I can justify
to get the Acrobat program.
PDF documents can take forever to download on
a slow dialup connection; I tend to avoid them for
this reason.   Even downloading the free reader
took a couple of hours.  PDF format, I understand,
is very much like a postscript stream enclosed in
file packaging.  It is not to be confused with the
postscript printer language or the Ghost program
for replicating hard drives or ghostwriter module
to print to a Wintel printer.  I much prefer plain
text.
If you just want to read and print a MS Word document,
you can use WordPad, a part of Windows, or download
a viewer/printer, free from Microsoft.   WordPad has some
basic editing capabilities, but not the editor of choice
for Dustin's next book.
Choppy
<p>At 01:34 PM 7/10/01 -0700, you wrote:
<em>>Right, I'm familiar with all the utilities that
<em>>convert to PDF. I meant the office type apps. Which
<em>>makes me wonder if Open Office has this capability?
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