What’s the best way to convert a large WordPerfect file to PDF?
I would like to
convert very large (long) WordPerfect files (7000 kb) to .pdf. Is it possible?
–Eileen McNulty
If you have the Acrobat
printer driver installed on your system, you should be able to print directly to
PDF. If not, then you can print the file as a postscript file (.prn or .ps) and
distill the file in Acrobat Distiller. –Edward
Becker
When I pick the
Acrobat Distiller to print the file to, it acts like it's working, then just
stops. I can break it into smaller pieces, but would rather not. I would like to
send the book to my printer in .pdf instead of hard copy and I'm sure he will
appreciate that also. –Eileen McNulty
When you say you pick
Acrobat Distiller to print the file to, does it prompt you for a file name or
name the file the same as it is with the extension changed from .wpd to .prn or
.ps? Also, are you clicking the print to file check box on the print dialog box?
If this is so, and the file is saving and then stopping, there may be a memory
problem. If you are saving the file and you get a huge file, say about 30MB or
more, that is the file that you should then open in Acrobat Distiller and
distill. If it continues to stop, try printing half the document to a .prn file
and if that distills then you can easily combine the two PDFs into one for your
printer. –Edward Becker
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