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How to Make a PDF document

This process uses a the PDFCreator application. PDFCreator can be downloaded for free. This how-to assumes you have downloaded and installed the PDFCreator application. There are two ways to create a PDF document:

Method #1

  1. Open the file that you would like to convert
  2. Click File - Print
  3. Select PDFCreator as the printer (this is the default)
  4. Click Ok
  5. Close MS Word
  6. Close Windows Explorer window
  7. The newly created pdf document is stored on the desktop

Method #2

  1. Open PDFCreator
  2. Click Document - Add
  3. Navigate to the folder where you file is stored
  4. Change Files of Type to All Files (*.*)
  5. Select the file
  6. Click Open
  7. Accept file defaults - Click on Save
  8. Select the folder you want to save your PDF to  from the list
  9. Click on Save
  10. PDFCreator launches Adobe Reader to display the newly created PDF document
  11. Close Adobe Reader
  12. Close PDFCreator

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