[spanishguy]

Hi Folks - and Happy New Year to You!

You can class me as a 60 year old newbie!

I'm using version Adobe 7.0.

I written an e-book to publish on my web site, and can't get the darn thing to convert into a pdf file. Sometimes it works for some files -- sometimes it doesn't.

I suspect the problem is with my many embedded graphics. I have created Microsoft Powerpoint slides, and have cut and pasted them into my ebook as objects inserted between the paragraphs of text. I have compressed them within Word.

When converting from the "Convert to Adobe PDF" button in my Word Toolbar, it gets all the way through and finally has an error at the end saying: "an error occured while creating a temporary file; Word was unable to write some of the embedded objects due to insufficient memory or disk space"

I have Adobe set with a password to protect copying, and the Word file sizes are around 1 to 2 Mbs.

My computer is only a year old, and I have 23 Gb of free space.

I'm using Windows Professional XP and Word 2002

Please reply asap or email me on [email protected]

You Have My Best Regards

Dave

 

[letchworth]

You can class me as a 60 year old newbie!
Please reply asap or email me on [email protected]

Unless that is a "throw-away" address (one you are using for this one time and then discarding it)-- don't put your address out so that all the spammers in the wold will have it as a confirmed address.

I don't know if it would help you or not-- (As I haven't used the security functions of .pdf) but a different (FREE) program MAY help you.

If you use the "Print Preview" (under <FILE> tab in WORD), are you able to see your document as you intended it to be viewed?? If so, then a program like "pdfCreator" could be used to produce your .pdf file.

pdfCreator installs as though it were a new printer on your system. When you go want to produce a .pdf file, you just select "PRINT", however, when the printing dialogue pops up, select pdfCretor as your printer. After a couple seconds there will be a dialogue to fill in and it will ask for the file name you wish to give your .pdf file.

If print preview shows the document correctly, the .pdf file created will be fine. This .pdf file will be usable just like any other .pdf file (again, the security issue is a feature I have not used for my purposes--- but pdfCreator-- and a few similar programs-- do a great job.)

Download pdfCreator here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

letchworth

 

[Lareux]

I'm not an expert, I have only looked into Open Office a little bit, but I belive they have a very good PDF Converter. Not sure what would happen with the images.

 

[spanishguy]

Great Stuff....the pdf creator does the job

I was staggered how easy it was. Some of the graphics colours came out with a criss-cross background - but other than that it looked fine.

HHMMM....I didn't think about my e-mail being used by spammers - any chance of the invigilator removing it from my thread??

Regards

Dave