Adobe Acrobat .PDFF files are an easy way to make documents available across a number of platforms. The reader is free and easy to install but unfortunately the program needed to generate the files is rather costly.
There is an alternative to this thanks to a pair of shareware programs you can download from the internet called Ghostscript and Ghostview. The following page contains detailed information on this or you can just download the following files :
Ghostscript 7.04 (code and script) and GSview 4.3 (interface)
Details for the technically inclined can be found at www.ghostscript.com or here ...
After you install both files, you need to install the driver to any Postscript printer. You don't need to have the printer, just install the driver from your Windows 98 CD, any postscript driver will do such as the HP Paintjet XL300 postscript. To install the driver, go to your printer folder, choose add Printer and follow the wizard's instructions.
To create your PDF, pen your newsletter using the program used to create it ( Publisher, etc... ) and print it using the driver for the postcript printer you just installed. Make sure you click on Print to File and when prompted type in a file name.
Finally, start Ghostview which you should find in your Program menu and open the .prn file you just created. Choose Convert in the file menu, select pdfwrite as a device with 72 dpi resolution and that's it... Ghostview will convert your newsletter to a PDF file virtually anyone will be able to open, view or print.
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