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Can I Create a PDF without Adobe Acrobat?

tribeofa — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:53:34 +0000

Large companies tend to be charry of handing out Acrobat Pro to just anyone, and you’re not one of the chosen. Or you work from home and can’t afford a copy…can you create a PDF? Yes! See item 6 in the Acrobat FAQ.

For more information about PDFs, check out the Adobe Acrobat 9 PDF Bible at Amazon.

Lots of New Stuff

tribeofa — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:51:33 +0000

The site has updated with lots of new information. An Adobe Acrobat Faux Wiki has been added with a couple of supporting pages to address some of those nagging PDF issues and open the floor to questions and tips.

There’s a new page on how to get rid of that annoying markup that remains when you print Word documents after tracking changes here.

Ever paste a table into Excel, only to have it all show up in one cell? Here’s a solution that’s just been moved into the Word Faux Wiki.

There’s a page on The Wonder of Snag-it, a big problem solver for admins.

Finally, there’s a new post right below this one on how to count multiple variables in Excel that will eventually become part of an Excel section.

You might notice a few more little ads at the bottom of the pages. I remain committed to keeping it to a minimum, but I could use a little help supporting site, so if you want any of the software or books you see here, click through!

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How to Print Webpages Properly

tribeofa — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:49:09 +0000

Your executive asks you to print off that article on Golfing Underwater he saw on www.throwawaybigbucks.com. Piece of cake, right? You print from Explorer…and the right edge is cut off. Phooey.

You set your page to landscape. The right side is STILL cut off.

If you have Acrobat, so you try printing to PDF. No joy.

After you kick the printer a couple of times, you try to cut and paste the article into a Word doc. Either it’s protected and won’t let you, or you get all of the golf clubs and bubbles and Montblac ads on the page mixed into the article. You pick out the article sentence by sentence and paste it into a new doc, and print that.

Only 45 minutes later, and you’ve printed an article! You’re not embarrassed…much. Don’t let this happen to you!

Tell your IT department that it’s crucial for you to have Adobe Acrobat PRO, and that it needs to be set up so that you have its icon in Explorer. For reasons I don’t even want to contemplate, if you choose “convert web page to pdf” from this icon, it will create a perfect document, but if you choose File>Print and choose Adobe Acrobat as the printer it will make a PDF with a cut-off right edge. Obtain the icon, even if you have to bite ankles to do it.

UPDATE: MS Explorer 2007 claims to have solved this problem, so that’s another solution.