Re: UKNM: Acrobat/ PDF

[Sam Carrington]

Hi,

 Rendering to PDF is easy once Acrobat is installed - from whatever

package you use its as easy as printing. Choosing a suitable word

processor or DTP package for construction of the document is really

dependent on what the project demands. A brochure or promotion with full

colour, complex layout etc. would benefit from full DTP in Quark or

similar. A dissertation, or similar, with indexes, annotations,

footnotes etc. would be far better produced in M$ Word or such. Horses

for courses.

 You could even produce the front plates in Quark, the body in Word, and

then combine them into one PDF document after rendering if you so

choose. If the source document is to be handed over to a 3rd party, or

edited later, you are better off choosing a package with broad support.

Without specifics (which I would not expect you to discuss on list) its

hard to define any solid option.


Regards

--

    sam carrington  //  senior web developer  //  sensei.co.uk

aajgraytalk21 [dot] com

 wrote:

>

> Wholy impressed with the current trend to attract visitors to a website

with

> an authorative book on a particular subject (ideavirus.com is best eg.), I

> need some advice regarding Acrobat and PDF files.

>

> I'm capable of writing the material but have no idea on the software side.

> >From my own research, Acrobat 4 seems to be essential.  What in your

opinion

> is the best authoring software to use before converting into a PDF.  Is

Word

> sufficient or do I need Quark/ Illustrator or similar to facilitate later

> changes and achieve high quality end-product?

>

> Thanks

>

> 'Steve King'



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