Can you create a *.pdf within Word 2008

[DrBill]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

Can you create a *.pdf within Word 2008 (or Excel or PowerPoint 2008)

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Can you create a *.pdf within Word 2008 (or Excel or PowerPoint 2008)

You can create one from any application on your Mac. Use the Print
command to get to the Print menu, and there, click on the PDF... button
on the lower left corner of the pane,

Corentin

 

[MC]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

Can you create a *.pdf within Word 2008 (or Excel or PowerPoint 2008)

You can, in two ways:

Under the Print menu

Under the Save As menu

 

[DrBill]

Can you create a *.pdf within Word 2008 (or Excel or PowerPoint 2008)

Thanks for your helfpul and timely reply. Much appreciated.

 

[nandor]

Except these don't really save something as a PDF with full functionality. On a Mac it only "prints to" a PDF (even if you choose "save as PDF"). If you have anything "special" in the PDF, like forms to fill in or hyperlinks, these will not actually save to the PDF - what happens instead is that it saves SOMETHING as a PDF file which you can then use only for printing it out.

So from what I can tell, the answer to "can you save something as a PDF" really has the answer "yes and no."

But I'd love to be told I'm wrong, or to find out that there is a solution to what I'm calling "the PDF hyperlink problem for Mac."

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Pdf created from with Office2008 are created by Microsoft's converter
file for PDF shipped with other converters. It does not go through the
print to pdf Engine built in to apple's Print menu.

The problem with hyper links as explained by adobe is the refusal by
Microsoft to provide the necessary "hooks" that are in the the windows
version to create working hot links.

You'll still have to even in 2008 even if you use the PDF Converter
invoked by the Save As... command, have to use Acrobat to add hot links
to pdf Documents.

Except these don't really save something as a PDF with full functionality. On a Mac it only "prints to" a PDF (even if you choose "save as PDF"). If you have anything "special" in the PDF, like forms to fill in or hyperlinks, these will not actually save to the PDF - what happens instead is that it saves SOMETHING as a PDF file which you can then use only for printing it out.

So from what I can tell, the answer to "can you save something as a PDF" really has the answer "yes and no."

But I'd love to be told I'm wrong, or to find out that there is a solution to what I'm calling "the PDF hyperlink problem for Mac."

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[John McGhie]

Well, you have to swallow a bit of computer-company double-speak.

OS X on the Mac saves PDF version 1.3. There is nothing wrong with the PDF,
but PDF has various versions. Adobe won't let anyone produce the latest
version without paying a hefty licence fee, which Apple and Microsoft
sensibly decline to do.

The ISO standard is PDF 1.7, the latest version is PDF 1.8. See
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html

Adobe keeps trying to blame the lack of hyperlinks on the Mac on Microsoft.
As we have tried to explain to Phillip, that's nonsense: Microsoft Word has
fully supported Hyperlinks since Word 98.

The reality is that the PDF Writer that writes the PDF needs to read the
input file properly. The hyperlinks are in the file: but it's Adobe's
responsibility to get them out.

On the PC, Adobe has created an application known as PDFMaker that does
that. They have consistently refused to make it for the Mac.

I hope that the next version of Microsoft Word on the Mac will offer XPS
(XML Paper Specification). This is very similar to PDF, but it is encoded
in XML instead of PostScript. And hyperlinks are required in XPS for it to
work, so they will work perfectly

Cheers

Except these don't really save something as a PDF with full functionality. On
a Mac it only "prints to" a PDF (even if you choose "save as PDF"). If you
have anything "special" in the PDF, like forms to fill in or hyperlinks, these
will not actually save to the PDF - what happens instead is that it saves
SOMETHING as a PDF file which you can then use only for printing it out.

So from what I can tell, the answer to "can you save something as a PDF"
really has the answer "yes and no."

But I'd love to be told I'm wrong, or to find out that there is a solution to
what I'm calling "the PDF hyperlink problem for Mac."

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Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Obviously You didn't read my wording. Personally I don't know whom is at
fault. for all I know its all three. I am Just repeating what the line
at Adobe says

Well, you have to swallow a bit of computer-company double-speak.

OS X on the Mac saves PDF version 1.3. There is nothing wrong with the PDF,
but PDF has various versions. Adobe won't let anyone produce the latest
version without paying a hefty licence fee, which Apple and Microsoft
sensibly decline to do.

The ISO standard is PDF 1.7, the latest version is PDF 1.8. See
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html

Adobe keeps trying to blame the lack of hyperlinks on the Mac on Microsoft.
As we have tried to explain to Phillip, that's nonsense: Microsoft Word has
fully supported Hyperlinks since Word 98.

The reality is that the PDF Writer that writes the PDF needs to read the
input file properly. The hyperlinks are in the file: but it's Adobe's
responsibility to get them out.

On the PC, Adobe has created an application known as PDFMaker that does
that. They have consistently refused to make it for the Mac.

I hope that the next version of Microsoft Word on the Mac will offer XPS
(XML Paper Specification). This is very similar to PDF, but it is encoded
in XML instead of PostScript. And hyperlinks are required in XPS for it to
work, so they will work perfectly

Cheers

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If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! http://www.vpea.org
http://www.phillipmjones.net
G4-500 Mac 1.5 GB RAM OSX.3.9 G4-1.67 GB PowerBook 17" 2GB RAM OSX.4.11
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