Comments on: Idle thoughts on completing a revision

By: walt

walt — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:30:19 +0000

Christina: The plugin in Acrobat 9 won’t work with Word 2010; Adobe wants to make $ure they get every po$$ible dollar out of you. However, the “save as PDF” within Office 2010 itself, which no longer requires a separate purchase from Adobe, works just fine.

And, as it turns out, when I actually tested the PDF with Lulu, Acrobat 9 would not embed one typeface used in an example, no matter what I tried…but with the PDF/A option checked, the Save As function worked perfectly. In the case of this book, the sizes were essentially identical.

I do suggest people try free or inexpensive alternatives, but in fact with current Word/Office, there’s really no need. (I’d tried one or two, and they didn’t embed everything and/or had other problems…but that was before Word2010 and its built-in PDF capabilities. LibreOffice also produces PDF/A directly.)

By: Christina Pikas

Christina Pikas — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:38:46 +0000

I fully agree with Adobe Acrobat being the tool of the devil but thought I might chime in with my brief experiences. I find that the Word (or ppt, for that matter) plugin that comes with Acrobat Pro does a much better, faster, smaller pdf than printing to pdf. Also, for the purposes of your book, I wonder if you thought of trying some of the free/open source software to create pdfs… maybe you did and found that they didn’t work? I have pdf creator at home and it is adequate for home use.

By: Jeff Rivera

Jeff Rivera — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:33:42 +0000

Thank you for the valuable post.

By: Stephen Michael Kellat

Stephen Michael Kellat — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:41:57 +0000

Budget permitting, I plan to buy a copy of this.