Word and WordPerfect to PDF - Planet PDF - The PDF User Community
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Word and WordPerfectto PDF
Carl Young, PDF Conference, Nov. 11, 2003
• Mainly Word
• Some WordPerfect. How many are usingWordPerfect?
Word Processing Applications to PDF
What We’re Here to Learn
What about:
What more can there be?
It’s One-Button Creation, Right?
• Bookmarks
• Links
• Page Lables
• Word 97/2000/XP
• WordPerfect 11
• Acrobat 5 and 6
Here are my assumptions
What Are We Discussing?
• Word Issues
• Setting up PDF Maker
• Acrobat Issues
What we are going to look at
Today’s Goals
• How to operate Word or WordPerfect
• Primarily doing electronic publishing
• Using Acrobat or WordPerfect Publish to PDF
What I assume you already know
Audience Assumptions
• Most mistakes originate in Word
• You really, really, really need to use styles
• Corel has some things to learn about PDF
If you don’t remember anything else
The Big Picture
• Styles� Predefined formats for creating formatted text
• Bookmarks� Bookmark Tab in Acrobat. Not related to the bookmark
feature in WordPerfect
Defining Terms
• Word� Update the Word file before creating a PDF� Use PDF Maker button, not File | Print
• WordPerfect� Try Publish to PDF� Use a third-party tool to create bookmarks
• Consistently Format Your Document� Use Styles� Use your application’s TOC creation features
Use your software tools effectively
Key Points
• Weird text reflow
• Unwanted sticky notes show upeverywhere
• Word data is out of date
• PDF doesn’t paginate like the original
Word Issues
Update the Word document before
creating PDF
This works for 97/2000/XP
Word
• Update field codes
• Accept/reject comments
• See Dov Issac’s presentations for JobSettings
Set Default Printer to Adobe PDF
Word
• File | Print | Adobe PDF doesn’t createTagged PDF, bookmarks, links
• PDF Maker does
• Can apply Security settings
• Converts Document Information� Is this a good thing?
• Can convert Word comments to PDF notes
Preferred method of creating PDFs from Word
PDF Maker for Word
Acrobat 5 Page Labels
• Integration with Word XP� Acrobat 6 only
• Round-trip commentsSee Adobe sessions on collaboration
Word XP Only
Word Comments
Tagged PDF works best
Add tags if not tagged
Help! I’ve lost the source!
Repurposing PDF for Word
Don’t forget this free package
OpenOffice 1.1
Not so perfect PDF
WordPerfect