In message <134981f2a07640a9b8330e922b67f...@d3hkh9x94>, Dilwyn Jones
<[email protected]> writes
No need for fancy publishing software, and a PDF can be created by
clicking one button. And the generated PDF is all of the above as
well -
searchable, cut & paste etc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Geoff and Jochen *must*
create a
PDF, I'm simply saying that it should be possible and the created
files
will not need to be bitmapped pages and extremely large with poor
quality.
Cheers,
Norman.
Hi Norman,
As you say, that is what the PDF is designed to do, to make documents
"portable", and keep to a relatively small file size; whilst giving
good
quality.
Isn't the "Writer" version, though, quite expensive?
The "Reader" is supplied for "free" - just copy from a CD/DVD with
supplied with a computer magazine, or download from the web.
In other words, not entirely without a cost.
-- Malcolm Cadman
There are some free and low cost PDF writers out there.
The simplest are basically printer drivers for Windows programs -
select the PDF driver as the current printer driver and print to it.
Usually, it will "swallow" the printed output then pop up to ask you to
enter a filename.
Never tried using these from QPC - I wonder if the current Windows
printer driver was set to the PDF output one, and QPC was set to use
the default Windows driver, would printed output from QPC in effect
generate a PDF instead of a printout? Something for someone with the
time to try I guess! I use the Nitro PDF program I got from
Computeractive site IIRC, I have used packages like PDF995 and RoboPDF
before today also. There are plenty of free PDF handlers, although some
of them are "free versions" which while they will create PDFs, they
might put a logo as a watermark or footer or something (remember how
Line Design demo version did that?)
Equally, Windows has a Generic/Text Only driver. Say you need to
extract text from a PDF file or Word DOC file, select the Generic/Text
Only driver (you may have to go through the Add Drivers dialogue as it
is not installed by default) then just Print from Adobe Reader or Word
or whatever, result is a quick text file without the fomatting. Handy
when you need to transfer text to a QPC program, and when text only is
good enough.
Dilwyn Jones
Hi Dilwyn,
I have set up some of these free "PDF printers", on a PC.
Yet, then never really thought about using them ... :-(
--
Malcolm Cadman
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