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Does anyone know how to make a pdf file? I want to put my CV and a portfolio on a CD-Rom.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:03 (twenty-three years ago)

actually my company sells a product that creates pdfs!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

is there anything I can get that'll do it for free?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

You're supposed to buy Acrobat (as opposed to just the Reader) from Adobe.

Though many apps can export files as PDFs too. OS X does it almost as standard.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Yep.

Get Acrobat (not the reader, but the full featured version). This will cost ya.

Get FreePDF - which does a reasonably similar job for free.

Get a Mac running OSX - then click 'save as PDF' in any print dialog box.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

*shakes head* sorry!

Can you not just print it to a pdf?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but you need a gizmo thingy to enable it be done so.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm searching for FreePDF. It's not as if I need to do loads of stuff with it, just slam a thing together. Doesn't need to be too pro.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

FreePDF. You need the FreePDF program, Ghostscript and Redmon Port re-director - this creates a new virtual port to print to under Windows; FreePDF is that printer, and Redmon interfaces the two with Ghostscript to ape Postscipt. Or something like that.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

if you could make a clean postscript file embedding all fonts, i could distill it for you. I'm not about to become an ILX PDF bureua though.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

go here: http://scholarone.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/scholarone.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=WJ5-_RFg&p_lva=&p_faqid=209&p_created=964659218&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTExJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li= (sorry for the massively long link) and you can upload your document and convert it to a PDF.

― liz (lizg), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll give freepdf a go! thanks everyone!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

will it be better as a .pdf?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Dunno. Okay, maybe I'm going about it the wrong way. Most of my portfolio is in hardcopy. My idea was to scan each page and turn it into a pdf, simply cos it looks nice and pro and so's I can send it to prospective employers via e-mail.

Anyone got any better ideas?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 August 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

If it's in Illustrator you can just save it as a PDF, no?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. If it's in Word, print it from Word to a PDF, then it's a smaller file (as it contains text info, whereas scanning will be one huge picture. Less likely to fuck over prospective employees. Alternatively, have an CV on HTML.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, the whole thing's a bit of a mess. Some stuff (reviews, written examples) are in word. Other things like university writing, published work I only have hardcopies of and include a few pictures. My scanner seems to make things really high res and my crappy demo copy of Paint Shop Pro has trouble viewing them. Don't know why. I'm scared that if I reduce the resolution, they might not be able to read it though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

PDFs look like shit and I hate them. I guess they're alright for graphics but text is always blurry. Would it not be better to scan your portfolio work and have some design a (noninternet based) website around it? Maybe that's a pain in the ass though.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Text isn't blurry if it's in there as text, and not a scanned graphic (like if you print to .pdf from Word). I mean, that's what many -- most, all? -- publishers use to ready their books for the printers.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

You could make a crappy PDF with the whole page as an image file. Maybe that's what anthony has experienced?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that's what I mean -- if you just scan stuff, and the text is part of the image, it's terrible, but if the .pdf's handling it as text and you're not using too many odd home-brewed fonts, it's as crisp as anything else.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

that's probably what I've seen most of the time then....I used to work with people who only had a rough understanding of software.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

You could try this online version of ps2pdf if you're having problems installing FreePDF:

http://www.ps2pdf.com

― bert (bert), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, so how else do I do this? The guy emailed me saying "can I see your portfolio" so I said "yes, I can send it to you by mail because it might take up a lot of space by e-mail" and he said "e-mail it to me, don't worry about space because you can just put it in a zip file"

Should I just tell him to give me a normal mail address so i can post it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 14 August 2003 23:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Well it sounds like he's the one insisting that email is the cool thing to do so I wouldn't push the postal route for fear of him thinking you're a luddite.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

What is your portfolio? Is it text-based articles, artwork, what? If it's just Word files then send him word files.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:43 (twenty-three years ago)

If it's dicks then send him a bag of dicks.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:49 (twenty-three years ago)

helpful. i see you do have mostly Word files and hard copy. Just send the .DOC files and say you are getting a load of old stuff OCRd, but if they want to see it now, you could send it by post.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I was helpful upthread.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll do that. better than to just sit on it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 15 August 2003 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

is it possible to convert ms Project files to a PDF file ?

― Ste, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, not another guy bumping Dog Latin threads. Mods, please ban.

― 597, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha i didn't notice

― Ste, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure. ;-)

― nathalie, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

if you're on a mac you should be able to save a PDF directly from the "print" dialogue - i haven't used microsoft project in about 9 years though

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

No MS Project for Mac. On Windows, if you have Adobe Acrobat, you can print to PDF. Otherwise, there are some online services that might do it.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 19 July 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.primopdf.com/

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 19 July 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my, everyone I know in the print biz LOOOOOVES PDFs and hates everything else, esp. MS word or publisher or etc. Oh man I love PDFs.

― Abbott, Thursday, 19 July 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

That's it. Abbott is getting PDFs for her birthday.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

Omigod thank you! I just gave myself four of them yesterday! The most recent is 2007revisedCAH.pdf, the consumer awareness handbook.

― Abbott, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

I just gave myself four of them yesterday!

Wait, are we still talking about PDFs?

― Rock Hardy, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, .pdfs. I mean, I downloaded four that I now own. But more are always welcome. Unless this is just like eighth grade when people would say something dirty to me and I didn't know it was dirty and I was all like, "teehee, okay!" And then got laughed at.

― Abbott, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

PDF != Personal Digital Fuck.

― libcrypt, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

why can't you just save as PDF from the save dialogue? in macs? why from print?

why?

why guys

― s1ocki, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

Because MS project doesn't run on Mac, you dildo.

― libcrypt, Friday, 20 July 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man slocki you are so not a dildo even though I can't help answer your question sorry. Adobe.

― Abbott, Friday, 20 July 2007 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

Acrobat is such a piece of shit. "Oh hai! Just wait while I load 120 plugins that you'll never use! What's that? You want to shut me down? Fuck you, you ain't shutting me down, I'm crashing! And I'm takin' your browser with me!"

― ledge, Thursday, 25 October 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

then don't have acrobat as a browser plugin, configure it to open standalone.

http://www.freewarereview.info/2007-06/pdf_download_disable_the_acrobat_plug-in_for_firefox_or_internet_explorer.html

― koogs, Thursday, 25 October 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

coolio

― ledge, Thursday, 25 October 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

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