Printing to PDF

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While you were looking at the print dialog box discussed in the previous section, you may have noticed that there was another choice in the list: PDF Converter. When you are printing from other programs, it might be listed as Print to PDF or something to that effect, but the purpose is the same: You can save your document as a PDF file. You probably have read documents in PDF format, so you most likely know what they are, but now you can create them too.

This is very handy, as it allows you to create documents that cannot be altered by others and yet can easily be read regardless of what word processor program or computer platform another person is using. It also makes for smaller files that can more easily and quickly be sent as email attachments. Chapter 2 of this book, for example, was a 5.5MB OpenOffice document, but when I printed it to PDF, it became a 770KB PDF file. All in all, this is a very handy feature that you would have to pay a pretty penny for in the Windows world.

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Printing to PDF is also a very handy way of saving a Web page that you would like to keep on hand in its graphical entirety for future reference. At this time, Mozilla does not support this feature, so if there is a page you would like to save in this way, try punching it up in the Konquerer Web browser (in the Main menu select Internet > More Internet Applications > Konquerer Web Browser).

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