At 03:09 PM 4/18/00 -0400, you wrote: >You can always get a postcript printer driver, print to file, saved post from the list,,, a while back. With thanks to the author. I actually got it to work!!! I use ps and pdf files alot and put together this info sheet to help others get up to speed on how to start using it. Any program that outputs to a printer can be used. this is also how to convert ps files to pdf. Here is the text from it. For anyone interested, This is how I create PDF files 1) Create the document in whatever program you can print out on in windows ie: Corel Draw, PageMaker, Ilustrator, PhotoShop. PDF really shows its strength when dealing with structured drawing programs. Like a schematic layout or even PCB layout program. 2) You need to install a printer driver from a generic HP PostScript printer, I use the one from the win95 install disks, but there are others available online as well. 1. Goto control panel 2. Printers 3. Add printer 4. Select Post Script Printer. 5. Select "Print to File" 3) Goto www.ghostscript.com and download both ghost script, and ghost view you will only be using ghost view, but it is merely a GUI to ghostScript. 4) After the printer driver is working correctly, choose print setup in the program you used to create the file. Choose the PostScript printer. It will ask for you to give it a file name, anyname.ps is the format you type in. 5) Open the document you just saved in GhostView, now choose, Print, then choose print to file, and pdfwrite. 6) to check your work you can open that file you printed to pdfwrite in acrobats reader ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry King" To: Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [OT] PDF versus GIF > Fr. Tom, > > I agree that PDF is superior in every way except possibly the > integration with web content. > > My company has standardized on PDF for all pre-set content, because > it is so efficient and works on so many platforms. > > As far as the integration: Acrobat (the PDF reader) plugs into > Netscape and IE very cleanly. You do see it load, even on fast > machines, so its using some resources, but they load quicker than > embedded Word docs. > > That's my $0.02. > > ------------ > Barry King, KA1NLH > NRG Systems "Measuring the Wind's Energy" > http://www.nrgsystems.com > Check out the accumulated (PIC) wisdom of the ages at: > PIC/PICList FAQ: http://www.piclist.org > 'Grif' N7IVS