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that can be true.  But, give the alternative of not having anything at
all, I'll take it.

Keep in mind that some speakers just won't turn in thier handouts
electronically or otherwise for inclusion...ergo, scanning them into a
.pdf would work just fine...



On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

> What about the full version of Acrobat? It is basically a "printer" in
> Windows - takes anything and "prints" it into a PDF.
>
> Problem with scanning into a PDF, when it's text you're scanning, is you
> don't have search, etc., since it's an image - right?
>
> At 03:38 PM 8/27/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Don,
> >
> > >Scanning software can make really effecient
> > >.pdf's and you don't have to worry about anyone's fancy font's problems
> > >than can come up with cutting a .pdf right from word or wordperfect...
> >
> >Do you have a suggestion in this software category?  I may have a need to
> >create
> >some PDF's, and always assumed it is better to start with a document like 
>Word
> >or WordPerfect instead of from scanning printed pages.
> >
> >What software would you recommend if starting with printed pages?
> >
> >Doug
>
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