Uploading PDF v Word
October 22, 2007 – Libby Davy – Print
When uploading documents to your blog, we recommend you convert them to PDF’s before hand.
In essence, PDF is best because it creates an image of the file which is easier to load (displays quicker), doesn’t get it’s formatting mashed which Word can do and is a established convention for sharing longer documents. There are many other reasons why it has become the standard, but trst us on this for now. But let us know any really good reasons why you might prefer Word.
You can easily do this within Word for Mac by going File > Print > PDF (bottom left) > Save as PDF.
Word for PC strangely doesn’t support this. It will be separate step. We are looking for a free program to do this for you. Stand by… Gra will add a comment in any moment now…
You can set a PDF to allow cutting and pasting so people can quote from you (future post to be written about how).
You could put Word docs up as a trial run and wordpress will allow them.
There are a few online options out there that you can send a .doc to and get an email back with a .pdf.
I tried out http://www.pdfonline.com/ and it worked nicely. Otherwise, some flavours of Windows might have a PDF printer driver.. So print you document and save as a pdf. Either of those should do it, but the online way is nice and simple for now.
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If you have Word 2007 on a PC, you can install a free Microsoft add-on to enable you to ‘Print’ direcly to a PDF rather than a printer. This article explains and has the link to the relevant MS page for the download:
http://wordprocessing.about.com/od/microsoftword2007/qt/microsoftpdf.htm