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Re: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why Triggers?)

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Thursday, October 25, 2001, 11:32
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
>> One doesn't have to purchase Acrobat to create PDFs. There are many >> free ways to do it (for example, PDFTeX if you use TeX or printing it to
a
>> PS then using a PS > PDF converter, many of which are freely available on >> the Internet. > >A free Word-to-PDF converter? I never heard of any. Moreover, the PS-files >created by Word are not standard PS, so you need a converter WPS>PS. IIRC
they
>exist free only with Unix and Linux systems.
WPS isn't PS (PostScript)--it's an MS Works file. To make a PS file from a document (any document in Windows, I think, not just Word files) you don't "save" but "print" - and tell it to print to a file. (On my computer the default extension for that is .prn .. just change it to .ps) If you have it set up to print in postscript (which is generally standard) you'll have a usable file. I've done it before, making PDF files from Word documents through the Net Distiller page. *Muke!