Creating a PDF file from Power Point

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It seems that Power Point no longer allows the creation
of PDF files. Does any one knows how to do it?
This feature is very important to me. Thank-you for your
valuable inputs.
 
It seems that Power Point no longer allows the creation
of PDF files. Does any one knows how to do it?
This feature is very important to me. Thank-you for your
valuable inputs.
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PowerPoint has never created PDF files on its own. You've always had to have
additional software (Adobe Acrobat or similar) in addition to PowerPoint.

You must have had something along these lines. Was it Acrobat or something
else?

And what changed? New computer? Windows update? New version of PowerPoint?
 
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PowerPoint has never created PDF files on its own. You've always had to have
additional software (Adobe Acrobat or similar) in addition to PowerPoint.

You must have had something along these lines. Was it Acrobat or something
else?

And what changed? New computer? Windows update? New version of PowerPoint?

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com

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Thank-you Steve. Yes I have Adobe Acrobat 5.0. I'm using
Office 2003 PPT. In Word 2000, you could see the icon for
acrobat in the word menu line, but in this new version of
word, nothing is available to generate the PDF file from
word.

Any thoughts and comments to this regards will be very
much appreciated.

Solo
 
Last I knew one used either Acrobat Distiller or Acrobat PDF Writer which
function a lot like printer drivers. They are both accessed from the print
command. You need to have a postscript printer driver installed as well for
these to function. Just as an aside, Corel WodPerfect can generate PDF
without having full Acrobgat installed -- one of the reasons it is
considered by some to be superior to Word.
 
Thank-you Steve. Yes I have Adobe Acrobat 5.0. I'm using
Office 2003 PPT. In Word 2000, you could see the icon for
acrobat in the word menu line, but in this new version of
word, nothing is available to generate the PDF file from
word.
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Acrobat 5's version of PDFMaker (the macro package that installs the
menu/toolbar items in PowerPoint) doesn't support Office 2003.

On the other hand, you can choose File, Print and pick the Acrobat Distiller
driver and print to that to get a PDF. The PDF won't have any of the
interactive features that the PDF from PDFMaker would have had (but even that
didn't support all that many link features).

If the links and such are important to you, have a look at our commercial
Prep4PDF addin at http://www.pptools.com

It works with PowerPoint 97 and up, Acrobat 3 and up and also various other
PDF-making programs like Jaws, GhostScript and so on.
 
Last I knew one used either Acrobat Distiller or Acrobat PDF Writer which
function a lot like printer drivers.
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They *are* printer drivers. They just don't print to physical printers. said:
command. You need to have a postscript printer driver installed as well for
these to function.
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Not for PDFWriter, and in the version 5 Acrobat that Solo has, the Distiller
printer driver *is* a PS driver, so there's no need for another one.
Just as an aside, Corel WodPerfect can generate PDF
without having full Acrobgat installed -- one of the reasons it is
considered by some to be superior to Word.
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[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

There appear to be a lot of different reasons why customers are choosing
*.PDF as a format for distributing or archiving presentations.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) would like to explain why you
are chosing to save your presentations as *.pdf and/or have some
suggestions as to what additional capabilities could be added to PowerPoint
which would either eliminate or reduce the need to convert your
presentation to a *.PDF format, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR
OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

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