I sometimes have documents submitted to me with a request to make them into pdf (portable document format) files so that they will display in Adobes free Acrobat Reader program. I have never had enough demand for this to justify buying the full blown Acrobat program. In the past I often use Corel WordPerfect (because it will save as a pdf), or used a screenshot and saved using a presentation program I sometimes use. None of these solutions did the job in all circumstances …
I recently happened onto this site: http://docupub.com/ and it seemed to do a very good job of converting my document on-line. I simply waited for it to convert, and then right clicked on the resulting link and choose save link to disk. Problem solved.
It supports all of these file formats:
Supported file formats: Generic Formats Adobe PDF Adobe PostScript Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) Microsoft Publisher documents Word Processing Formats ASCII Text ANSI Text Microsoft RTF Microsoft Word for PC v2 Microsoft Word for PC v3 Microsoft Word for PC v4 Microsoft Word for PC v5.5 Microsoft Word for Macintosh v4 Microsoft Word for Macintosh v5 Microsoft Word for Macintosh v6 Microsoft Word for Macintosh v98 Microsoft Word for Windows v2.x Microsoft Word for Windows v6.0 Microsoft Word for Windows 95 Microsoft Word for Windows 97 Microsoft Word for Windows 2000 Microsoft Works v1.0 Microsoft Works v2.0 Microsoft Works v3.0 Microsoft Works v4.0 Microsoft Windows Write v1.0 Microsoft Windows Write v2.0 Microsoft Windows Write v3.0 WordPerfect v5.x WordPerfect v6 WordPerfect v7 WordPerfect v8 WordPerfect v9/2000 WordPerfect for Macintosh v2 WordPerfect for Macintosh v3 Spreadsheet Formats Corel QuattroPro v7 Corel QuattroPro v8 Lotus 1-2-3 v2 Lotus 1-2-3 v3 Lotus 1-2-3 v4 Lotus 1-2-3 v5 Lotus 1-2-3 96 Lotus 1-2-3 97 Lotus 1-2-3 R9 Microsoft Excel v3 Microsoft Excel v4 Microsoft Excel v5 Microsoft Excel v6 Microsoft Excel 97 Microsoft Excel 2000/XP Microsoft Excel for Mac 98 Microsoft Works Spreadsheet v1.0 Microsoft Works Spreadsheet v2.0 Microsoft Works Spreadsheet v3.0 Microsoft Works Spreadsheet v4.0 Presentation Formats Lotus Freelance 1.0-2.1 Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/XP Microsoft PowerPoint for Macintosh 98 Graphic Formats AVS - AVS X image file BMP - MS Windows Bitmap image file BMP - OS/2 Bitmap DCX - ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush file DIB - MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap DPX - Digital Moving Picture Exchange FAX - Group 3 FAX encoding FITS - Flexible Image Transport System FPX - FlashPix Format GIF - CompuServe graphics interchange format GIF87 - CompuServe graphics interchange format ver 87 ICO - MS Windows Icons ICO - OS/2 Icons IPTC - Newswire profile JBIG - Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format JP2 - JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format MIFF - Magick image file format MNG - Multiple-image Network Graphics MPC - Magick Persistent Cache image file format MTV - MTV Raytracing image format OTB - On-the-air Bitmap PBM - Portable Bitmap PCD - Kodak PhotoCD - Base/16, Base/4 and Base only PCDS - Kodak PhotoCD - Base/16, Base/4 and Base only PCT - MacIntosh PICT PCX - PC PaintBrush PGM - Portable GrayMap PICT - Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file PNG - Portable Network Graphics PNM - Portable Any Bitmap PPM - Portable PixelMap PSD - Adobe Photoshop P7 - Xv's visual schnauzer format RAS - Raster Sun Microsystems RGBA - Raw red, green, blue, and matte samples SGI - Irix RGB image file SUN - Raster SunMicrosystems TGA - TrueVision Targa TIFF - Tagged Interchange File Format VICAR - V.I.C.A.R. Image file format VID - Visual Image Directory VIFF - Khoros Visualization image file WMF - Windows Meta File XBM - X Windows system bitmap, black and white only XPM - X Windows system pixmap file (color) XWD - X Windows system window dump file (color)
Let me know how it goes if you give it a try.
