[Grovenet] Adobe question

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

No, the reader will only let you read acrobat (*.pdf) files. 

You must first create the file you want to publish in Acrobat. That can be a
plain ASCII file with no formatting, or some document you create in your
word processor or desktop publishing program. Then you create the Acrobat
file using the full version of Adobe Acrobat, either the on-line service or
by buying and installing the program on your computer. 

The Acrobat file will mimic what you created in your word processor or
desktop publishing program: What you see when you open the source file on
your computer is what others will see when they view the Acrobat file you
create. You can't do much formatting in Acrobat. It simply mimics whatever
you put into it so what people see is a replica of the document you have on
your computer.

You said you were working with ASCII files. Are you aware that virtually
every computer can display ASCII files without any further conversion? ASCII
was created for just that purpose. It stands for "American Standard Code for
Information Interchange". (This e-mail message is in ASCII format.) So, if
you simply want to send a file like this message to someone else, all you
need is to transfer the file to them in the most convenient way. Typically
you'd use the file extension "txt", e.g. document.txt 

What ASCII doesn't allow you to do is format the text beyond adding blank
lines and spaces between characters. 

Ron D'Eau Claire



-----Original Message-----
From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
Behalf Of Eewhisler at cs.com
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:52 PM
To: grovenet at rdrop.com
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Adobe question


So you're saying I can do what I want just from my free Acrobat reader?
I've 
tried, but it won't accept the format that's why I thought I needed the
whole 
program.

Ellaine   
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