PDFCreator - can't get it to work - help, please

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I have a Win98 system, and need to create .pdf files, so from this
site, https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796, I
downloaded these two files:

PDFCreator-Setup-0_7_1.exe
PDFCreator-Source-0_7_1.zip

Then I double-clicked on PDFCreator-Setup-0_7_1.exe and it appeared to
succesfully install, and rebooted my computer.

Under Start/Programs/PDFCreator there is indeed now a PDFCreator
program appearing. But when I run it, a "PDFCreator 0.7.1 PDF print
monitor" window opens, and I have no idea how to proceed from there to
create .PDF documents.

Can someone please help me?

Thanks in advance...
 
fan said:
Under Start/Programs/PDFCreator there is indeed now a PDFCreator
program appearing. But when I run it, a "PDFCreator 0.7.1 PDF print
monitor" window opens, and I have no idea how to proceed from there to
create .PDF documents.
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Simply print whatever document using the PDFCreator virtual printer instead
of your regular printer.
 
Ive not used this program but most add it as a printer. So in your
normal document you go file->print and then select the PDF printer.
 
Thanks very much for the suggestions. When I scan a document with the
goal of putting it into .PDF format, what is the best format to save
it in right after scanning? .doc? .tif? .bmp? other?

My HP scanner uses PaperPort software, and after scanning, the
document needs to saved to disk ("Exported"). Am guessing that
PaperPort won't start offering to "Export" the document directly into
..PDF format, so thus my question about format.

Thanks again...
 
fan said:
I have a Win98 system, and need to create .pdf files, so from this
site, https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796, I
downloaded these two files:

PDFCreator-Setup-0_7_1.exe
PDFCreator-Source-0_7_1.zip

Then I double-clicked on PDFCreator-Setup-0_7_1.exe and it appeared to
succesfully install, and rebooted my computer.

Under Start/Programs/PDFCreator there is indeed now a PDFCreator
program appearing. But when I run it, a "PDFCreator 0.7.1 PDF print
monitor" window opens, and I have no idea how to proceed from there to
create .PDF documents.

Can someone please help me?

Thanks in advance...
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I assume it is a print driver basesd PDF creator. So, just print to it -
from any applicaton.
regds
Trevor
 
Im not too good on graphics, but I will assume the pdf program can take
any resolution and any colour depth. So when you "print" to the pdf
program it will send all the data, and the program will then store it in
its own format in the PDF file.

So it does not matter. What is most important is you have found a
resolution and colour depth that looks good for your viewing size
(minimising file size). Then save at that resolution in any format and
then print it.

Thats all I would do. If you want to experiment save as a jpeg or
something with max resolutions, etc. Then slowly work your way down to a
smaller file until you get a good match between file size and display
quality.

If anyone can think of a better way, please add.
 
And said:
Thanks very much for the suggestions. When I scan a
document with the goal of putting it into .PDF format, what
is the best format to save it in right after scanning?
.doc? .tif? .bmp? other?

My HP scanner uses PaperPort software, and after scanning,
the document needs to saved to disk ("Exported"). Am
guessing that PaperPort won't start offering to "Export"
the document directly into .PDF format, so thus my question
about format.
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That's correct. It will print from ANY format into a PDF
format, but you can't scan directly into it - unless your
scanner software will scan directly to the printer.



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:-) Christopher Jahn
:-(

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Where do all the characters you BACKSPACE over go?
 
Thanks for everyone's suggestions. Am making progress - just created a
one-page .PDF file.

So now my question is, how to create a .PDF file with more than one
page in it?

Thanks again...
 
I don't have a multi-page document. I have scanned four pages of sheet
music, and each one is its own .gif file. I'd like for PDFCreator to
collate all of them together into one .PDF file that has 4 pages.
 
fan said:
I don't have a multi-page document. I have scanned four pages of sheet
music, and each one is its own .gif file. I'd like for PDFCreator to
collate all of them together into one .PDF file that has 4 pages.
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Assemble your documents in a 4 pages document using Irfanview or something
like that and print to PDFCreator.
 
Joe said:
Assemble your documents in a 4 pages document using Irfanview or something
like that and print to PDFCreator.
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Scratch that. Instead, use Word or another word processor and insert 1 gif
per page in a new document and print to PDFCreator.
 
If you take this approach be sure to go into page setup and set all
margins to 0. That way the picture will take the full page.

Or if you have Powerpoint it will be faster.
 
I don't have a multi-page document. I have scanned four pages of sheet
music, and each one is its own .gif file. I'd like for PDFCreator to
collate all of them together into one .PDF file that has 4 pages.
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FreePDF 2.0 will do multi-page documents.
http://www.shbox.de/freepdf.htm
Page is in german. FreePDF uses unicode and will be in your native
language.

regards

Dud
 
fan said:
I have a Win98 system, and need to create .pdf files, so from this
site,
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I have tried CutePDF on win98, and it works fine.




Søren H. Sørensen, Viborg
(slet FJERN fra min e-mail adresse)
 
Duddits said:
FreePDF 2.0 will do multi-page documents.
http://www.shbox.de/freepdf.htm
Page is in german. FreePDF uses unicode and will be in your native
language.

regards

Dud
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In the event the correct solution was unclear, the graphics need to be
dropped into a word processor document, one to a page. Then, that
document needs to be sent to the PDF printer.
Avraham
 
Avraham said:
In the event the correct solution was unclear, the graphics need to be
dropped into a word processor document, one to a page. Then, that
document needs to be sent to the PDF printer.
Avraham
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FreePDF is a Printer Driver, from any application you select print then
point to the FreePDF as your printer and then click print, makes a
almost perect pdf file.

BTW - FreePDF installs in one of 3 languages including English

Kingtut1
 
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