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Save a file in PDF format – Help and How-to – Microsoft Office Online

oscarsprinting — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:10:01 +0000

Save a file in PDF format – Help and How-to – Microsoft Office Online

Download details: 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

oscarsprinting — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:07:33 +0000

Download details: 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

Mac OS X – Create PDF from any application:

oscarsprinting — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:37:40 +0000

OS X version 10.4 or higher – With any document, in any application, go to the FILE menu and select PRINT. The PRINT dialog box appears.

In the bottom left of the PRINT dialog box, click and hold on the PDF dropdown, and from the sub-menu, select SAVE AS PDF…

The SAVE AS dialog appears. Give your document a file name (You do not have to add .pdf at the end of the file name. This is done automatically for you.)

Select the location for your document to reside, and then click once on the SAVE button.

That’s it. You now have a pdf document saved in the location you specified!

Microsoft Word – Embed TrueType fonts in a document

oscarsprinting — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:34:13 +0000

Microsoft Word
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Save tab.
2. Select the Embed TrueType fonts check box.
3. Save the document.

Note Embedded TrueType fonts can increase the size of your document. You may be able to reduce the file size of your document by
selecting the Embed characters in use only check box. This option embeds only the font styles used in your document. Also, if you
used 32 or fewer characters of a font — for example, a few symbols or a headline — Word embeds only those characters. Note that
this option is most useful for documents that other users plan to view or print only, because the unembedded font characters and
styles aren’t available for editing.

Creating a plot “.plt” file in AutoCAD

oscarsprinting — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:32:10 +0000

1. While in your drawing, click on the “Plot” button to bring up the plot
screen
2. In the plot device tab, select a HPGL/2 plotter. If one is not available,
you need to install an HPGL/2 plotter in AutoCAD. (The HP750Cplus is
a common plotter and the drivers are included in AutoCAD)
3. You will need to set your page settings in the Plot Settings tab
4. Select the appropriate page size, and make sure your pen tables (if
applicable) have been loaded as monochrome
5. Check to make sure your scale has been set, and that your drawing
fits on the page the way you want it to, by doing a “full preview”
6. In the plot device tab, you will need to select the “Plot to file”
checkbox and make sure you will be writing the file to the appropriate
directory
7. Give the file a name and click the “0K” button. This process will
generate a file with a “.plt” file extension

Microsoft Word – Preserve original appearance for viewing or printing

oscarsprinting — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:15:27 +0000

Microsoft Word provides several options for creating “portable” documents — that is, documents that always keep their original
appearance no matter which computer or printer you use to view or print them.

Do any of the following:

Preserve a document’s original layout and page breaks
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Compatibility tab.
2. In the Options box, clear the Use printer metrics to lay out document check box.

Note The Use printer metrics to lay out document option affects only the way the document is displayed while you work with it
in Word; it doesn’t permanently change the document. If you want to restore the document’s original layout, you can select this option
again.