Help making a PDF, please?
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,502
    Dear Sirs and Mesdames,

    I've posted the annual Advent Calendar of Hymn Tune Introits here http://yankehome.com/ms-upload/an-advent-calendar-of-hymn-tune-introits-2013.doc (Thanks, Ben Yanke!)

    There has been a request on the Chant Cafe for a PDF of this, for viewing on mobile devices. I haven't got the technology, or at least I don't know how to do this without having a good version of Acrobat. Could I please ask someone's help? Just please convert the document to a pdf and email it to me, kpluth@gmail.com. Many thanks!

  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 993
    Here you are! (And sent to you by email)

    an-advent-calendar-of-hymn-tune-introits-2013.pdf
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  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,502
    Thank you!!
  • ny_ct_fl_ms_organist
    Posts: 33
    Download this program- it's free. I have used it for years. http://www.pdf995.com/
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,502
    Thank you too!! (Teach a woman to fish...)
  • jczarn
    Posts: 65
    Another better option might be CutePDF Writer (no advertisements/pop-ups) - I use it all the time. It is based off of GNU Ghostscript, which is open source:

    http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp
    Thanked by 1Gavin
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,177
    I've used PDF995 for several years and am used to it, even though the free version brings up an advertisement page (if I'm online). My bigger problem right now is that my computer crashed last weekend, and today I found out that the motherboard is fried, so I have to invest in a new computer (the cost of replacing the laptop I had being about equal to the cost of repair).
  • francis
    Posts: 10,761
    CHG... are you a PCfist or MACguru?
  • smvanroodesmvanroode
    Posts: 993
    I'm glad I have a Mac. If a program has an option to print, you are offered to possibility to print to pdf. Comes in very handy!
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,177
    francis ...

    Eons ago I started with an Apple IIc PC at home, but when the mathematics department went the IBM PC route, I eventually switched, even programming in 8088/8086 assembly language and its descendents for a period, but then opting for structured programming languages such as Pascal and C. When Windows 3 came along, I pretty much abandoned such programming for TeX, MetaFont, LaTeX, and Waterloo Maple. I wrote a somewhat serviceable music engraving program in TeX, which I dubbed TaLLiS and used it for about a year before discovering and moving on to NoteWorthy Composer then to Finale 4. I never really got into the Apple Mac craze, so I'm still pretty much glued to Windozzzzz, although I think I'm going to rebel against Windows 8 after having been through WIndows XP on my last tower PC and Windows 7 on my recently deceased laptop. Oh, I also had a two or three year stint of fiddling with (enduring?) Unix based machines (from Sun and from AT&T) at work.

    Finale 2012, which is the current version I am using, also allows printing and saving to PDF ... but I still usually opt for PDF995, because I can specify higher document resolutions - usually 1200 dpi or even 2400 dpi for precision printing (rather than 300 or 600 dpi).
  • Andrew Motyka
    Posts: 946
    I use "doPDF." No ads; it just shows up in your printer list when you click print on, well, anything. Then you can save said PDF anywhere.

    http://www.dopdf.com/

    Thanked by 1CharlesW
  • Earl_GreyEarl_Grey
    Posts: 903
    I also use cutePDF. Never had a problem. Basically works like a virtual printer (print to file). Of course now many programs like Word do this directly, but not all.
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