Hi there
I have a MS Office document (9-pages) and the printer doesn't have all the
fonts I've used so when he opens it, it looks different. He said the only way
for it to be exactly the way I designed it is if I convert the .doc file to a
.bmp, .jpg or .pdf file. Is there a way to do this in MS Office 2000?
Usually this is accomplished using a virtual printer driver. BMP, and
certainly JPEG does not sound like a good choice for transportation of 9
pages with a lot of text, so let's concentrate on PDF.
If you have Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not the Reader), that's the
luxury solution. Or you can use from a multitude of other applications
or even web services, ranging in price from freeware to a lot more. A
PostScript-printer driver in combination with ps2pdf might do the job,
too. [I'd fire up the search engine of your choice and use "ps2pdf",
"Ghostscript", "RTF2PDF" as possible search terms.]
Just don't forget: "PDF" in itself does not mean you are better off in
terms of fonts. You must make sure that the fonts you're using are
embedded in the final PDF (or at least the used subset is).
HTH
Robert