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PC to Adobe Pro 8

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2007-06-08 14:33:25
daveweller
Registered: Jun 8 2007
Posts: 2

I'm a small businessperson who has used an older PC to prepare some important items for my business. I used MS Publisher to prepare numerous tri-fold brochures and a quarterly eNewsletter. I've discovered that many people/organizations don't have Publisher on their computers, and so can't read my brochures or eNewsletters. I bought Adobe Professional 8 several months ago, but have discovered that I seem to need to have MS Publisher on my newer MacIntosh (iMac) in order to do anything (placing them on my iMac, emailing them to clients, etc.) with my "old" brochures and eNewsletter in order to make them into pdf format. Is there an easy way to access my old PC-generated material on my new computer?? Thanks for any help, daveweller

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-06-08 18:28:03
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pddesigner
Registered: Jul 9 2006
Posts: 858
Consider this a suggestion. I also use MS Publisher with Acrobat 8.0 and find the Create PDF icon on my MS Publisher menu. I suggest (1.) make sure you have the latest update for Acrobat 8.0 - Click Help, Check for updates. Next, upgrade your copy of MS Publisher to the 2007 edition. I think this could solve the problem.

My favorite quote - "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

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2007-06-14 05:14:57
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dottie_k
Registered: Jun 7 2007
Posts: 4
I work with both Mac and PCs and it has been my experience that you need the application on both machines in order to use the same file on both machines. Acrobat has to open the file in the source application in order to convert it to pdf. (You may not see it happening behind the scenes.) Do they make Publisher for Macs? I don't think so, but may be wrong.
I'd install Acrobat temporarily on the old PC (assuming it is still alive) make the pdfs of your old documents, and transfer them as pdfs to your Mac so they are usable.
If your old PC is not viable, you need to find one that has both Publisher and Acrobat to do the transformation.
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