Re: Offlang suggestion & counterproposal

        FREE!!!
        Ok, there is a freeware product called Ghostscript, with a windows
interface called Ghostview. It has been around for years, and most people
find it very reliable. The home page is here:

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

        I have had a few issues with an older version of 7 only creating the
first page. I haven't tried 7.04 yet. The last build of 6 is available.
        Essentially, in your word processor, print the document to a file,
as a .ps or .eps file. Start GhostView. Open the printer file. Do a
"Convert", and select "pdf".
        It is not as good as Acrobat, but 7 does a clean job. (Version 6
sometimes has jagged edges on true type fonts.) It helps to set the DPI to
600. There are a few other options, such as compatibility level.

        Hope it helps.
                Mike

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Mike Karapcik   *       Tampa, FL
Network Analyst *       USF campus
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Research Center
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Christophe Grandsire [mailto:christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR]
| Subject: Re: Offlang suggestion & counterproposal
|
| > I myself use Adobe Acrobat, so I publish to PDF directly from
| > any program I like, and it works well and keeps the files small
| > (using the correct settings for web publsihing, which might
| > come to the core of the problem we discussed
| > with PDF download and file size).
|
| Well, I've seen the prices of Adobe products. I just cannot
| buy them! It's all nice and everything but I cannot buy
| products that cost me half of my month salary!

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