Saving any document as a pdf file for e-mailing

[Kendor]

Any document that can be printed can be saved as a pdf file and then attached to an ordinary e-mail. This is useful if there is no built-in e-mailing facility for the type of document concerned or the Intuit e-mail server is down.

To do this, download and install a pdf virtual printer like cutepdf writer or PDFCreator (both free) or, my preference, pdf995 (also free but you'll end up paying the $10 to get rid of the intrusive advertising), and it'll automatically be added to your list of printers.

Then open the document you want to e-mail and click Print or CTRL + P. A window will come up giving you the choice of which printer you want to use. Select the pdf virtual printer and click Print again. The document will not actually be printed; it will instead be saved as a pdf file (with a filepath of your choice) and you can then attach it to an ordinary e-mail. Or your pdf virtual printer may have an option which automatically opens an e-mail with the pdf file already attached.

Ken

[annynrok]

I tried that cutePDF program & it works really well, thanks for the tip. It is great to email a cash sale receipt in QBPro 2003 which doesn't do it normally & to email online banking confirmations from NAB. However I did try to use it to change a .doc file (with pics) to see if it would make it smaller but it went the other way - double the size. I couldn't work out how to change the settings to perhaps make it work as I'd hoped.
Can you help?

[annynrok]

Ken
I already used cutePDF as per one of your previous posts but apparently there is some way to change the ultimate file size cos sometimes it is huge. Their website has this:
http://www.cutepdf.com/support/faq.asp
"How to reduce the size of output PDF file?
You can alter the parameters used in a text file "%Program Files%\Acro Software\CutePDF Writer\PDFWrite.rsp". The key parameters are in the line:
-dPDFSETTINGS=configuration
where configuration can be /screen, /printer, /prepress, /default. Using /Printer can cut size by half. You may get more info at http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/gnu/7.05/Ps2pdf.htm"
but I'm not up to understanding what it says to do!

[newyorkhcm]

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