[cw-discuss] Re: MS word and pdf export

[Peter Lord]

Helen Ross wrote, On 10/17/2006 12:53 AM:
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>> Re: MS word and pdf export
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> I found a program that puts a menu in MS Word (only Word) and bypasses 
> all printer drivers to produce a pdf file. The files created are 
> searchable and look pretty good to me. I have tested out with a number 
> of documents that contain lots of graphics, tables etc.
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> It is called pdf brewer version 2 and is free for personal use though 
> you do have to enter your name and email. You can get it from
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> www.cib.de
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> It also has something called e.pdf which allows you to create a 
> document that is a hybrid word and pdf but adobe choked on it. Just 
> untick the check box before saving.
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> Athough it seems to work on my machine using word xp in a win98 bottle 
> without problems please back everything up - you never know!
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> I found out why using the wine ps driver you don't get searchable 
> text. When Word prints to the driver it converts all text to graphics 
> so if you look in the ps file (save to file when printing in word gets 
> you the ps) you can't find any of your text.
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Thanks for the tip but it didn't work for me :-(  when trying a save, I 
get "The file conversion could not be performed correctly.  CIB format 
error : Unbekannter Fehler 10080".  I'm using office 2000