How do I create Adobe Acrobat (pdf) documents?
For a variety of reasons, some of you may have lost the ability to easily create Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files. This topic is a guide to the various ways of making these. 1) The most straightforward way to convert some file into Acrobat is to use the Acrobat 6 application directly. In the “Program” menu, go to the “Adobe” group and click on “Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard”. This will launch the application; be patient, it’s a little slow to start up. Once the application window appears, go to the “File” menu, select “Create PDF” and then “From File”. You can then browse to the file you want to convert. Many different kinds of files can be converted, and they will all show up as you browse. The file that you select will appear in the window and be converted. Finally, select “Save As” from the “File” menu and save your new PDF. 2) There is a special Acrobat printer queue that allows you to just “print” a document as PDF. To see if you have that printer installed, go to the “Start” menu, click on
