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1 posted on 05/22/2007 3:58:43 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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Ping for help!

If y’all know any computer experts, please send them my way! :-)

Thanks.


2 posted on 05/22/2007 3:59:34 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl
Do you have full Adobe? If you do you will have an Adobe “printer” in your printer folder. You just print any document to that ‘printer’ and it will generate a pdf file.

You can Save as PDF in Word and other word processing programs as well.

3 posted on 05/22/2007 4:02:33 PM PDT by NathanR (Apr?s moi, le deluge.)
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To: calcowgirl
Adobe is "bloat-ware." Takes too much time to load pages, IMO.

May I suggest giving FoxIt a try? I've been using it for three or four years and it works well and is very fast.

6 posted on 05/22/2007 4:21:16 PM PDT by jdm
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To: calcowgirl

PDF files have to have page breaks. That’s the purpose of PDF; to transmit a completely formatted document that doesn’t need the software that originally created it.


8 posted on 05/22/2007 4:22:43 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: calcowgirl

Go to PRINT
Select Adobe PDF, but don’t print
Select PREFERENCES
Select ADD CUSTOM PAGE
Put in a really huge number for the HEIGHT


17 posted on 05/22/2007 4:32:47 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: calcowgirl

The user forums at www.adobe.com are great resources for questions such as yours.


23 posted on 05/22/2007 4:41:17 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: calcowgirl; ShadowAce
If you didn't already ping him, pinging ShadowAce.

Sorry, but personally wouldn't be much help.

27 posted on 05/22/2007 4:44:18 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: calcowgirl
I really want to help you but my grandson is not here to tell me what a pdf file is (or isn’t?)
35 posted on 05/22/2007 4:53:41 PM PDT by tubebender (Watching grass dry and mowing the paint since 1933...)
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To: calcowgirl
Go to SOFTWARE LABS

www.softwarelabs.com

They have great prograpms FINEPRINT AND PDF PRINTER!!!

38 posted on 05/22/2007 4:59:58 PM PDT by pointsal (q)
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Assistance requested!


58 posted on 05/22/2007 6:23:20 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: calcowgirl

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/


65 posted on 05/22/2007 6:51:50 PM PDT by James W. Fannin (Thanks, Cacique)
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To: calcowgirl
CutePDF Printer is free, and MS OneNote. The trial version is good for 4 months.

:O)

P
67 posted on 05/22/2007 7:20:07 PM PDT by papasmurf (FRed one liners...click my name. FRed & JC , for Pres.and VeePee.)
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To: calcowgirl; All

I hope you don’t mind if I piggyback on your request. I just remembered I need some help also.

I need a program that will append PDFs onto a master PDF document based upon certain criteria. For instance, if the main datasheet uses 3 different package types, then I would need to append those 3 package PDFs, add an FAQ document PDF, and a product reliability/testing PDF as well, all of these documents merged into one SuperDatasheet PDF. I would need to be able to do this with several hundred datasheet PDF documents in such a way that if, say, one of the Package PDF docs gets changed, then I can automatically update and distribute that change to all of the datasheets that use that PDF document within hours rather than weeks.

Javascripting sounds like it would do the trick, but I’m not a developer. Also we found a piece of software called “Active PDF Toolkit” but our IT Department has given this project so little priority that more than 6 months later, they still have not yet evaluated it (it’s basically a COM programming environment for PDFs).

Traction Software has PDF U which has a Batch Process capability and can store a batch file. But the file is not manipulable without programming; we would need to be able to have some smarts and monitoring and conditions on which files get appended.
http://www.traction-software.co.uk/pdfuas/index.html
PDF U Append Dekstop Edition 1.08 Traction Software Batch Processing Version

Has anyone used PDFTK?
If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line ...
http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk -

Basically I need some software we can download and get the job done without relying upon our IT department to learn the scripting language. It can’t be too basic like some of the free PDF tools we can download (none of those work as far as I can tell), but it can also not be too complicated that I’d need to spend 6 months I don’t have to learn a scripting language or have our lame IT department drag their heels on the project.


79 posted on 05/22/2007 8:56:34 PM PDT by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
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To: calcowgirl

PDF stands for “Page description format” so it’s strongly linked to the size and shape of a physical piece of paper. If you can get your driver configured to print on a 8.5” x 60” page size or something like that, it might work I think.


80 posted on 05/22/2007 9:36:50 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: calcowgirl
You're probably not running Linux but for those who are, there is a really easy way to accomplish what you've asked. Simply print the file to a postscript file, then run ps2pdf against the file.

 ~ :) ls deleteme*
deleteme.ps
~ :) ps2pdf deleteme.ps
~ :) ls deleteme*
deleteme.pdf  deleteme.ps

In the example above, I show the postscript file I created, then run ps2pdf against it, then show both files. 

82 posted on 05/23/2007 6:53:23 AM PDT by zeugma (MS Vista has detected your mouse has moved, Cancel or Allow?)
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