computer friendly person to help please
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computer friendly person to help please
i am tearing my hair out here , my solicitor requires the forms i have filled in on a government website to be sent on adobe pdf format , how on earth do i send him these forms i have filled in so he can review them before i submit them , i pasted and copied them onto word but he needs them as files so he can read the other bits , i can do most things on a computer but this has finished me :curse:
is there a kind soul out there who can help
is there a kind soul out there who can help
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
i'm no pro in this things - but afaik you can't save data in an existing pdf-file if you don't have a pdf-writer - which most private people haven't.
how about printing and fax them?
or if you have a more or less modern scanner which allows you to do that: print them and scan them in pdf-format?
the only other thing on the computer that i can think of is print screen, and past it into a word document - which i think is a) not really good legible and b) a huuuuuuge amount of bytes you're trying to email...
how about printing and fax them?
or if you have a more or less modern scanner which allows you to do that: print them and scan them in pdf-format?
the only other thing on the computer that i can think of is print screen, and past it into a word document - which i think is a) not really good legible and b) a huuuuuuge amount of bytes you're trying to email...
Last edited by lof; Oct 27th 2007 at 9:08 am. Reason: added another idea...
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
thanks but there fax will not accept 60 plus pages and sending that lot from canada will take ages
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
i am tearing my hair out here , my solicitor requires the forms i have filled in on a government website to be sent on adobe pdf format , how on earth do i send him these forms i have filled in so he can review them before i submit them , i pasted and copied them onto word but he needs them as files so he can read the other bits , i can do most things on a computer but this has finished me :curse:
is there a kind soul out there who can help
is there a kind soul out there who can help
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
i am tearing my hair out here , my solicitor requires the forms i have filled in on a government website to be sent on adobe pdf format , how on earth do i send him these forms i have filled in so he can review them before i submit them , i pasted and copied them onto word but he needs them as files so he can read the other bits , i can do most things on a computer but this has finished me :curse:
is there a kind soul out there who can help
is there a kind soul out there who can help
You have the information now as a Word document so have a look here the very first item is a free Word to PDF converter.
Hope it helps.
Steve
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
steve - i'm not sure - i got the op's question as how do you save the filled in pdf-file... afaik if s/he could copy the "pdf-background" into word, s/he could just send it as .doc-file? (i know about the "security"-aspect of this...)
btw 60+ pages? that gives you a huge e-mail even with pdf...
btw 60+ pages? that gives you a huge e-mail even with pdf...
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
steve - i'm not sure - i got the op's question as how do you save the filled in pdf-file... afaik if s/he could copy the "pdf-background" into word, s/he could just send it as .doc-file? (i know about the "security"-aspect of this...)
btw 60+ pages? that gives you a huge e-mail even with pdf...
btw 60+ pages? that gives you a huge e-mail even with pdf...
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
You need the full version of Acrobat to create a pdf on you own computer. If you go onto the Adobe website and use Create pdf you can print up to 5 pdf files as a free trial, thereafter it is by subscription. Use the 'Try it for Free' option.
Last edited by Surrey Expat; Oct 27th 2007 at 10:57 am.
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
Alternatively you could fire your solicitor. I imagine you are paying him or her to work for you?
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Re: computer friendly person to help please
I use this one:
http://www.cutepdf.com/
Simply download, then open the file you want to pdf > go to Print and select 'Cute PDF writer' as your printer > Select where you want to save the file (I remove the words WORD DOC from the filename) > and hey presto, you have 1 pdf.
Just re-read your post - I think you need to add info to a pdf that is not saveable unless you have a full Acrobat version. If I remember correctly, I used the full Acrobat version at my office to fill out mine and saved them. The above mentioned Cutepdf is handy to have for any other document you want to pdf though.
http://www.cutepdf.com/
Simply download, then open the file you want to pdf > go to Print and select 'Cute PDF writer' as your printer > Select where you want to save the file (I remove the words WORD DOC from the filename) > and hey presto, you have 1 pdf.
Just re-read your post - I think you need to add info to a pdf that is not saveable unless you have a full Acrobat version. If I remember correctly, I used the full Acrobat version at my office to fill out mine and saved them. The above mentioned Cutepdf is handy to have for any other document you want to pdf though.
Last edited by Cookie; Oct 28th 2007 at 2:10 am. Reason: Misunderstood 1st post