4. Creating PDF Files

In This Chapter

Printing to a PDF File 66

Using PDFMaker in Microsoft Office (Windows) 69

Converting Images and Other Files to PDF 71

Scanning Directly to PDF 72

Converting Web Pages to PDF 73

Converting Screen Shots to PDF 75

Merging PDF Files 77

PDF is arguably the best file format for storing and distributing documents. It’s compact, it supports a wide variety of content (including text, images, line art, and multimedia), and you can use it for free without incurring licensing fees. However, all this capability is useless unless you can conveniently create PDF files. This is the topic we address in this chapter.

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