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_Mac_Daniel_
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September 14, 2008
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eBook expert help needed !!!

  • September 14, 2008
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Help needed to convert a MS Word document into a PDF ebook. Report was created on a PC using MS Word 2003. Since the report was created, I bought and plan to use an iMac with Word for Mac 2008 and Acrobat 8 Professional.

This is probably simple for most of you but not for this somewhat senior knuckle-head. Finding help on the internet for this topic has been frustrating, to say the least. My take on what Ive read about creating a PDF ebook is that acrobat is the absolute best program to create a truly professional ebook.

Desired features: TOC, bookmarks, links, allow printing but prohibit copy and paste, not password protected but some measure of protection on a budget (if this is possible),

This eBook (our first effort) will be offered (for purchase) on a new website to be built soon. Please offer your advice/suggestions/thoughts to enable us to provide a truly, top-notch professional eBook.

A step-by-step tutorial would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your willingness to help!!!

Mac Daniel
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    _R_V_
    Participant
    November 27, 2008
    You can download free ebooks on various topics from http://www.free-ebook.biz
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    _Monika_M_Newman_
    Participant
    November 25, 2008
    Hi All

    Just like to advise that as a Virtual Assistant I create lots of ebooks on behalf of clients and have great success formating them in Word and converting with Adobe.

    regards
    Monika
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    _SD1100IS_8MP_
    Participant
    November 7, 2008
    Another vote for Open Office - free and without doubt the best way I've found to make a Word document a PDF. You might have to fiddle with the layout a tad tho.
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    _Dan_DeRoeck_
    Participant
    November 3, 2008
    I too will be writing an eBook soon and heard a lot about Open Office. Has anyone had any experience with OO? If so, can you provide some details? Thanks!
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    _noel_hynes_
    Participant
    November 1, 2008
    I agree that Open Office is a great way to convert to pdf. I have MS Office but always use Open Office for this task.
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    _IncomeInvestor_
    Participant
    October 28, 2008
    Hi,

    I second David M Allen's suggestion. Open Office is great for
    converting .doc files to pdf.

    I will add, however, that there's a charge for commercial
    use, though it's much less than paying for Microsoft Office.

    best, Rick Stooker
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    _David_M_Allen_
    Participant
    October 18, 2008
    An easy, inexpensive way is to download Open Office.

    You can open your Word document, save it and print it directly to PDF format. By the way, if you don't know, Open Office is free.

    Best of luck,

    David
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    _David_Corn_
    Participant
    September 22, 2008
    I've used a free program at pdf995.com to convert Word files to PDF's. It's very simple once you have it installed, you open your document in Word, select print, click pdf995 and your document is now a PDF.
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    _larry_a_
    Participant
    September 17, 2008
    There are free and paid products "out there" that will do this task for you. Just google.
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    _Ken_Nickless_
    Participant
    September 15, 2008
    Adobe has a "How To" guide at:

    http://www.adobe.com/epaper/tips/acr5ebook/

    How to Create Adobe PDF eBooks Tutorial.

    Hope this is of some help.
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