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re: vista Friday, March 9, 2007 at 9:03 am Posted by beebobby (58 messages posted) Adobe Reader will not allow you to make PDF's only read them. To create or convert PDF's, you need Adobe Acrobat. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: vista Friday, March 9, 2007 at 9:15 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6749 messages posted) Beebobby is right, the free Reader program only reads. If you need to publish documents in the pdf format, you can of course purchase Adobe Acrobat, and there are several lower-cost programs that do a passable job of making pdfs, too. Just Google "create pdfs" for some results. IIRC MS was planning to include a publish to pdf feature in Office 2007. Oh, yeah, here it is: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100649921033.aspx [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: vista Friday, March 9, 2007 at 11:55 am Posted by shollomon (69 messages posted) Or you could use the free (as in beer and speech) OpenOffice suite to publish pdf's. But that will not let you edit pdf's, just create them. If you want to append to or edit a pdf you're going to have to buy software. Try something other than Acrobat, its bloated and expensive. There are plenty of shareware pdf editors out there. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: vista Friday, March 9, 2007 at 12:15 pm Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6749 messages posted) Funny thing about Acrobat---it is a big program because it does a lot, but IIRC one of the computer mags did a comparison test and Acrobat consistenly creates the "tightest" pdf documents, meaning that for a sample document of the several utilities tested, Acrobat was able to make the smallest pdf file. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum