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to: Gary Britt
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-08-31 18:55:22
subject: Re: PDF choices

From: "Gary Britt" 

Also works nice when the web page has disabled save file/file as.

Gary

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:44f72c0c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Sounds like the print to pdf is all they need then.  It works well for the
> usage you describe.  I often will print a web page to pdf from inside
> internet explorer or mozilla so that I can get a single file with all the
> graphics and colors preserved.  Works much better than saving as html only
> in terms of preserving the on-screen look and feel of the web page.
>
> Gary
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:44f636f6{at}w3.nls.net...
>> It was for people who create "release sheets" for
dissemination to buyers
>> of CD's.  Right now, they tend to email them to all the various buyers,
>> with the graphics and all.  Tend to get large, and people have trouble
>> printing them out to put in their internal sales books.  We've finally
>> convinced them to convert their creations to PDF's to email.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Glenn M.
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:44f5dabb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>I use cutepdf writer, and if you know how to modify its ascii ini file
>>>you can make the free version do encryption and restrictions on editing
>>>and copying the content of the pdf.
>>>
>>> There is also a method described on the web to use ghostscript, a
>>> program called redmon that redirects the printer output through
>>> ghostscript and a post-script printer driver for any post-script printer
>>> you care to pick (you don't actually have to have the printer of
>>> course).  This method is essentially what cutepdf and the others do.
>>> They just have their own built-in printer driver and no way to change
>>> the settings with regard to restrictions of the pdf output (except
>>> cutepdf if you know how to hack their ascii ini file).
>>>
>>> I think Glenn was looking for a pdf creation tool thought wasn't he?
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> "Gregg N"  wrote in message
>>> news:44f4cf76$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>>>>> OK, other than Acrobat, and Open Office, what tools
and at what cost
>>>>> are there for being able to create PDF's from various Office
>>>>> Documents?
>>>>
>>>> In addition to the primopdf and pdf995 products already mentioned,
>>>> there is
>>>> CutePDF Writer,
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
>>>>
>>>> which is also free.
>>>>
>>>> Gregg
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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