You can use PrimoPDF, which is also a free download. But if a font cannot be
embedded, you're going to lose the font anyway.

The only way you can be relatively sure that it will look the same is to
make sure you use the more common fonts.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Neil Howie" wrote in message
...
To save as a pdf, download and install Open Office for free
(www.openoffice.org), load your Word document, then choose Save As...
and select the pdf file type.

Open Office can be set up to work transparently with Microsoft products,
though there are probably lesser used aspects of MS Office it can't cope
with.

--
Neil

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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| See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm. If the form
is to
| be filled out by hand, it would be much more satisfactory to send it
as a
| PDF.
|
| --
| Suzanne S. Barnhill
| Microsoft MVP (Word)
| Words into Type
| Fairhope, Alabama USA
| Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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| "babsanderson" wrote in
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| ...
| My boss wants me to do a document (it looks like a form and would be
| printed
| and then info handwritten on it) and groupwise it to others, so they
can
| open
| it on their computer and just print it. On my computer it looks fine
and
| prints okay. When I send it to others the formating and placement of
items
| (I
| used columns, Lines, symbols, tables, ect.)is all missed up. How can
I fix
| this?
|
| Just got office 2003, the changes are just enough to drive me nuts.
|