Preparing to work with PDF

Before you can create PDF documents, you  will have to add additional software.

• If you work with Office 2007, your best choice is to install 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS. It is small high quality freeware PDF converter. Once you have installed that, you are ready and it will work.
• If you don't have Office 2007 you may have to install
  1. a postscript printer driver. You may already have a postscript printer, in which case you don't have to install anything. If not you can download a virtual postscript printer driver. The following can be used:
     • MS Publisher Imagesetter (if you already have that, installed with earlier versions of Office). To install the MS Publisher Imagesetter virtual printer, open the `Printers` settings folder, and click `Add Printer`. Select a local printer; since it is virtual, select the FILE: port. Specify `Generic` as manufacturer, and then you can choose the MS Publisher Imagesetter.
     • CutePDF Writer: no license needed to use only as PS virtual printer
     • PDFCreator: large download, but freeware and usable for other PDF conversion tasks
  2. you also need a program to convert the postscript file to PDF. You can use
     • Adobe Acrobat Professional (or the previous Acrobat Distiller) (commercial software)
     • Ghostscript (freeware) for conversion to postscript to PDF