Converting Microsoft Office Files to Adobe PDF Using PDFMaker
Most .pdf files originate from an application where the content editing and layout setting are done. In this chapter, we will focus on Microsoft (MS) Office for Windows, and specifically MS Word, since it is the most common tool used for adding, editing, and formatting text, placing charts and photos, inserting tables, providing page navigation through headers and footers, and providing other visual elements that make a completed publication. As the last step, a PDF output is created.
We will explore how different choices made during this process will affect the code and, therefore, features of the final PDF. We’ll cover the following topics in this chapter:
- From authoring content to PDF output
- Understanding PDFMaker (Windows only)
- Evaluating content prepared for PDF conversion
- Testing and comparing converted PDF files
Please note that the authoring and PDF export options in Adobe InDesign...
