Converting Electronic Files to PDF

You can use Acrobat to convert an electronic file from virtually any application to the Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat can use different utilities, one - PDFWriter, two - Acrobat Distiller or three - you can create a PDF file directly  from the current MS Office document. 

Creating PDF files with PDFWriter

PDFWriter “prints” a document quickly in PDF. You can drag and drop to create PDF files with PDFWriter or use the Print command in your authoring application. PDFWriter is most suitable for simple business documents that contain mostly text. When using this option PDFMaker's enhanced features are not available. The PDF file will not contain bookmarks, links, text notes, threads or document information.

Creating PDF files with Distiller

Distiller creates a PDF file from a PostScript version of a document. A PDF file created by Distiller maintains all the formatting, graphics, and photographic images from the original document, and it usually provides higher quality output than PDFWriter. 

Creating PDF files in MS Office

In Microsoft Word 97 or Word 2000:
choose File > Create Adobe PDF, or click the Create Adobe PDF icon on the Microsoft application tool bar. Select PDFWriter or Distiller,

 set other options if necessary, and click Create.

You can click the Help button in application's dialog box  to open a document with more information.

In Microsoft Word 95:
choose File > Create Adobe PDF > Print, or click the Create Adobe PDF icon on the Microsoft application tool bar.

In PowerPoint 97 or PowerPoint 2000:
click the Create Adobe PDF icon on the Microsoft application tool bar.

In Excel 95, 97, or Office 2000:
choose File > Create Adobe PDF, or click the Create Adobe PDF icon on the Microsoft application tool bar.