Bushey Boy
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« on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:50:36 » |
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Anyone know how you easily chnage a word document, like a statement into a pdf so they cannot play with it?
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land_of_bo
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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:51:25 » |
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Download win2pdf (it's free) and will install itself as a printer.
Print to it and it will create a PDF file.
Note - the free version adds a page to end of the doc saying it was produced from a free version.
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Bushey Boy
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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:52:05 » |
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Ah ok, can I do it so it just saves it, or does it have to be printed?
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:52:37 » |
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Or password protect it so that they can only open the document as read-only.
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land_of_bo
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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:52:52 » |
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It prints it to a file, so just saves it.
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Bushey Boy
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:53:18 » |
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ah how do I password protect it?
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sonic youth
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:57:43 » |
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have you tried turning it off and on again?
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land_of_bo
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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 11:59:44 » |
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You don't need to.
Once it is a PDF they cannot change it. Unless of course they have a full version of Adobe Acrobat or In Design which is pretty unlikely.
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 12:48:27 » |
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Unless you do i what i have done which is use a similar program to the above mentioned one, which allows you to print pdfs to html, rtfs and docs. Which is nice.  To be honest, pdfs are far from as secure as people think, if you can read it, a program can read it and therefore copy it. I used to have some kind of OCR program that could actually take pretty much any document's contents and make it editable. |
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Bushey Boy
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 12:49:43 » |
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You guys are far to complex, I just want people to be able to read it and print it, is this not just a couple of clicks of the mouse?!
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janaage
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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 12:55:31 » |
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Bushey do the Pdf converter thing, it's well easy, we use it at work, and yes you could edit it if you really wanted to, but from what you're saying you just want a printable document that isn't "over typable", which is what the pdf does.
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flammableBen
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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 12:56:19 » |
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What people are saying ash, is that you can never make it impossible for them not to edit it if they really want to.
just pdf it and be on your way.
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Hexagon
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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 12:58:03 » |
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Open Office allows you to save a word document as a pdf.
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flammableBen
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« Reply #13 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 12:59:38 » |
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Open office is ace.
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Bushey Boy
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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 13:24:12 » |
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Thanks guys, I sent a statement to my solicitor and he went a bit crazy! Ha ha ha
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