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  3. August 2002

Re: PDF generation (was COMMON Conference - addendum...)

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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