To test this premise I 'printed' a document from Word 2007 to PrimoPDF and
printed the same document to an Epson ink jet. I then printed the PDF to the
same printer. I defy you to identify which is which. They overlay perfectly.
On very close examination, one is slightly sharper than the other, but I
would have to print them again to determine which that was. Primo PDF may
not have the same range of functions as Acrobat (when the latter is driven
from the add-in from Word), but the quality of the prints is excellent.
My guess is that there is a scaling option set in the print dialog of Adobe
reader and/or the page sizes don't match.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
PrimoPDF is frequently recommended in these NGs, but it's possible
that those who recommend it are just grateful to get any kind of PDF
result and are not being picky about scaling. I do know that Acrobat
(for me at least) seems to produce a reasonable facsimile of my
original word document.
Although I do a lot of the same sort of thing and use pretty much the
same layout and styles for most things (using templates designed for
the purpose), every job is different, and I encounter a wide variety
of jobs, both personal and in my business.
"Bert Coules" wrote in message
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"Suzanne,
What application are you using to do the conversion?
I've tried two: PrimoPDF and PDF Converter. Both give exactly the
same result.
As for content vs. layout, I do usually have some layout in mind,
or the author whose work I'm typing/typesetting has indicated a
layout, but often I have to tweak the layout many times...
As I suspected, your situation is quite different from mine. Ninety
percent of my work is done using just one layout, which is fixed and
which I never change or tweak. The remaining ten percent uses two
or three additional layouts, about which the same thing is true: I
never change them.
Bert