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Principia Discordia => Apple Talk => Topic started by: Dimocritus on December 15, 2009, 06:18:00 PM

Title: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Dimocritus on December 15, 2009, 06:18:00 PM
So, I was going to do my final paper for my film as lit. course until I realized that it wasn't due 'till Friday. Y'know what that means?

Procrastination time!

Time that I spent putting together a couple of posters. Now I'm waiting to get an e-mail from Zamzar.com with my shiny, brand new pdf's and I've got nothing to do in the meantime.

Sooooo... What's going on, peedee?
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Suu on December 15, 2009, 06:32:06 PM
Why are you using Zamzar? There's plenty of us here who can convert them for you.
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Dimocritus on December 15, 2009, 06:42:00 PM
Oh. I didn't know. I'm a sort of Luddite. That's good to know for the future.
Also, how about that fief?
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Template on December 15, 2009, 07:06:41 PM
For that matter, there's PDFcreator.

http://en.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Cramulus on December 15, 2009, 07:07:47 PM
my favorite freeware way to make PDFs without messing with adobe:

bullzip pdf printer (http://www.bullzip.com/)

it installs a virtual printer. When you go to print, you'll see it on your list of printers. If you print to bullzip, the output is a PDF rather than a physical page.
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Dimocritus on December 15, 2009, 07:21:10 PM
So, a possible stupid question. For some reason, when I transfer doc. files to pdf, the images are getting kind of pixelated. I don't remember this happening before. What could a reason for this be?
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on December 15, 2009, 07:34:41 PM
Protip - Open office saves to pdf. It's just like all those other free pdf generators except for the fact that it isn't a buggy little pile of gobshite.
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Cramulus on December 15, 2009, 07:37:27 PM
wait, open office IS or ISN'T buggy? I suspect you and I have had different experiences.

Whenever I dump an open office doc to PDF, I lose tons of layout
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Template on December 15, 2009, 07:39:36 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 15, 2009, 07:34:41 PM
Protip - Open office saves to pdf. It's just like all those other free pdf generators except for the fact that it isn't a buggy little pile of gobshite.

Hey, the one I use comes from Sourceforge!
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Captain Utopia on December 15, 2009, 07:45:12 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on December 15, 2009, 07:37:27 PM
wait, open office IS or ISN'T buggy? I suspect you and I have had different experiences.

Whenever I dump an open office doc to PDF, I lose tons of layout
I've never had that problem personally - is that when you use the Bullzip PDF writer, or the built-in export PDF option?

Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Cramulus on December 15, 2009, 07:58:19 PM
I've had problems with OpenOffice's built in PDF export. Some kinds of formatting (like fonts & odd frames) got a little jumbled. To be fair, that may have been fixed in subsequent builds.

But bullzip is good for if you want to make an image into a PDF, or a webpage, or anything that you can't quickly paste into openoffice.
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Cain on December 15, 2009, 08:42:09 PM
Open Office has been eating up my processing power of late, so I tried MS Word 2007, and there is a plugin you can download with it to convert files into PDF, which works like a charm.
Title: Re: Waiting for Zamzar
Post by: Dimocritus on December 15, 2009, 08:43:39 PM
File's done. (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=11461.msg793953#new)