How to create a PDF from Word?

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I will like to do a PDF of my Word Resume since I read that it is more
efficient to send them in PDF (let me also ask to the Word uses here: Is
that true? The article said that it is so that the recipient do not looses
the format if he/she does not has the fonts. Is the PDF e-mailing really
a good idea?)

How to create the PDF?

Thanks in advance.
 
Octavio said:
I will like to do a PDF of my Word Resume since I read that it is more
efficient to send them in PDF (let me also ask to the Word uses
here: Is that true? The article said that it is so that the
recipient do not looses the format if he/she does not has the fonts.
Is the PDF e-mailing really a good idea?)

How to create the PDF?

Thanks in advance.
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Yes, it really is true. PDF ensures that the recipient sees the same
formatting that you created, while a Word document is subject to many
possible problems (not just unavailable fonts; see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm for a more common
problem).

If you have Word 2007, and it has the latest updates from the Microsoft
site, you already have the ability to 'publish' any Word document in PDF;
it's on the Save As tab of the Office button menu. If it isn't there yet,
you need to download from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041.

If you have Word 2003 or earlier, that requires other software. The easiest
is to use an online PDF creator such as
http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/ or http://online.primopdf.com/. Or you
can download software to your computer that lets you "print" from Word into
a PDF file, such as http://www.primopdf.com/ or http://www.pdf995.com/.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 
I will like to do a PDF of my Word Resume since I read that it is more
efficient to send them in PDF  (let me also ask to the Word uses here:  Is
that true?  The article said that it is so that the recipient do not looses
the format if he/she does not  has the fonts.   Is the PDF e-mailing really
a good idea?)

How to create the PDF?

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

The difference I've seen is 42K vs 30K and sometimes as low as 18K

However, it is less easy for your recipient to play with a .pdf file

But, more and more everybody has Adobe installed.

just keep to the basic fonts, no reason not to


free software
Free Primo 3.25
installs as an 'extra' printer

Be careful, other pdf printers like to place a little advertising logo
in each page!

=-=-=
If you install on a Win98 machine, you will also need three .dll

mfc80.dll
msvcr80.dll
msvcp80.dll

located in...
FreePrimo325requiredmsdll.zip
or, can get them individually from the downloads\zip folder

place dll's in the folder:
C:\Program Files\activePDF\PrimoPDF\
=-=-=

Robert
 
FWIW, I've been using PrimoPDF for several years now. Love it! And at the
whopping price of $0, how can you go wrong? :-)
 
The CutePDF Writer does a decent job, too. :-)

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



JoAnn Paules said:
FWIW, I've been using PrimoPDF for several years now. Love it! And at the
whopping price of $0, how can you go wrong? :-)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


Jay Freedman said:
Yes, it really is true. PDF ensures that the recipient sees the same
formatting that you created, while a Word document is subject to many
possible problems (not just unavailable fonts; see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm for a more common
problem).

If you have Word 2007, and it has the latest updates from the Microsoft
site, you already have the ability to 'publish' any Word document in PDF;
it's on the Save As tab of the Office button menu. If it isn't there yet,
you need to download from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041.

If you have Word 2003 or earlier, that requires other software. The
easiest is to use an online PDF creator such as
http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf/ or http://online.primopdf.com/. Or
you can download software to your computer that lets you "print" from
Word into a PDF file, such as http://www.primopdf.com/ or
http://www.pdf995.com/.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.
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The fact that "it is less easy for your recipient to play with a .pdf file"
is why you send a PDF when you don't want it tampered with (as would be true
in the case of a résumé).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

I will like to do a PDF of my Word Resume since I read that it is more
efficient to send them in PDF (let me also ask to the Word uses here: Is
that true? The article said that it is so that the recipient do not looses
the format if he/she does not has the fonts. Is the PDF e-mailing really
a good idea?)

How to create the PDF?

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

The difference I've seen is 42K vs 30K and sometimes as low as 18K

However, it is less easy for your recipient to play with a .pdf file

But, more and more everybody has Adobe installed.

just keep to the basic fonts, no reason not to


free software
Free Primo 3.25
installs as an 'extra' printer

Be careful, other pdf printers like to place a little advertising logo
in each page!

=-=-=
If you install on a Win98 machine, you will also need three .dll

mfc80.dll
msvcr80.dll
msvcp80.dll

located in...
FreePrimo325requiredmsdll.zip
or, can get them individually from the downloads\zip folder

place dll's in the folder:
C:\Program Files\activePDF\PrimoPDF\
=-=-=

Robert
 
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