How to create a PDF from a word doc on Mac?

[Sarah Conolly]

With Microsoft Open office (free software) you can creat a pdf document from a word doc. Please tell me how we can do the same on Mac, or which software to download so that i can create pdf files.

Thanks!

[lurk]

You just hit the print button in any app, then on the left hand side of the print dialog is a big drop down button labeled PDF. From there choose haw you want it, I find that I mail PDFs that way quite often.

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by Sarah Conolly

With Microsoft Open office (free software) you can creat a pdf document from a word doc. Please tell me how we can do the same on Mac, or which software to download so that i can create pdf files.

Thanks!

Just to clarify, the OpenOffice.org suite is NOT from Microsoft. Microsoft has their own office suite called Microsoft Office. Also, neither are affiliated with one another. They are both competing products, OpenOffice.org being free and Microsoft Office being a paid product.

There is a version of OpenOffice.org for the Mac, but the current version is not pretty and it requires X11. While they are working on a native version for the mac, you can currently try NeoOffice which is basically OpenOffice carbonized for the Mac and made to feel more like a Macintosh application.