Andrew DeFaria

berthman wrote:

    >> Forget all, try PDF995. Create PDF from ANY document
    > If you have something like "Microsoft Document Imaging" (Sorry to
    > quote the devil) which comes with Office 2003, this creates a Imaging
    > "Printer" which will output to an image file which cannot really be
    > edited, but forms a record of your filled out form.
    > Hope this helps a few

How is that substantially different than printing to a file (aside from
the couple of hundreds of dollars you gotta dump to get Office in the
first place?!?)? I thought the idea was to save, not spend money. If
money's not the object hell just blow the money and get the full version
of Acrobat!
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I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if
they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they
ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium."

Mattias Hembruch

In article <[email protected]>,
Andrew DeFaria <[email protected]> wrote:
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    >Folinskyinla wrote:
    >> I am NOT a computer maven -- but I have been using the bloody things
    >> for 25 years now -- starting with a Z-80 CPM machine with 64K of
    >> memory ["K" not "megs" or "giga"]
    >Bill Gates infamous words: "Who would ever need more than 64K?". :-)

I believe that was "640K", referring to the original DOS. Mr. Gates was NOT
a player in the CPM days..

Mattias

berthman

To be fair, I was pointing out the facility that if one had a copy of this version of Office, that this maybe of help.

As I said, I hope this helps a few....

Berthman

Andrew DeFaria

berthman wrote:

    >> How is that substantially different than printing to a file (aside
    >> from the couple of hundreds of dollars you gotta dump to get Office
    >> in the first place?!?)? I thought the idea was to save, not spend
    >> money. If money's not the object hell just blow the money and get the
    >> full version of Acrobat!
    > To be fair, I was pointing out the facility that if one had a copy of
    > this version of Office, that this maybe of help.
    > As I said, I hope this helps a few....

If we were really being fair (and if we had read carefully) I had
already mentioned that (that's the "aside from the couple of hundreds of
dollars you gotta dump to get Office in the first place" portion). My
point really is, hell if you have a couple of hundred dollars to burn
then you could just get Acrobat the full version. In either case you
need to spend a pretty substantial piece of change. And in the case of
Office the procedure is no less tedious yet more costly. IOW you still
have to "print to a 'printer'" that really just outputs a file image of
what should be printed. With Office you gotta buy it (Office costs bucks
- even if it's preinstalled the cost is absorbed into the price of the
computer system itself).

Conversely, in my procedure you don't have to buy anything! All you need
to do is configure a "fake" printer to print to a file. You don't need
the physical printer at all. You don't have to buy the physical printer
nor do you need to buy the software because the drivers already come in
Windows. All you need to do is configure it and then use it. Done!

Your procedure admittedly "helps a few" while my procedure offers help
to all.

But some people can't seem to think unless they think in terms of IE and
Office... :-(
--
Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone...when I came back the
entire area was missing...

nathan barley

Download the free version of PDF Factory. 'Print' your forms off as saved PDF files.

Problem solved, though you do lose the ability to make any further changes.