Select File and then Print to choose Document Conversion Service 3.0 as the printer for this document. Our sample reports is very wide and you can see how much it wraps. If it is very wide, it will look wrong at first. Select the Document Conversion Service 3.0 printer. With our text document open in Microsoft Word, we need to do the following to determine the document layout. This sample text file and two sample conversion profiles can be downloaded at the end of this article. You can see that it is a very wide text document. We will show you how to take your text report into Word and change its layout so that it displays properly, and then map those changes into settings to add to a conversion profile suitable for processing all your text reports.Īs an example, here is our sample text file opened in Notepad. You can even open Microsoft Word documents, and convert them to PDF.Large institutions such as banks and hospitals often produce text-based reports from older mainframe applications and have a need to convert these reports to PDF or TIFF.Īs many of these text documents are not the standard Letter, Legal or A4 paper sizes we normally see, a few custom settings are often need to be added to the conversion profile to convert these documents.ĭocument Conversion Service uses Microsoft Word to convert text documents. 
LibreOffice: LibreOffice is a free, open-source office app that offers a lot of the same features as Microsoft Office. 
A paid subscription gets you additional features like unlimited conversions (multiple documents at once), and the ability to convert more types of files. And it really is free if you just need to convert the occasional Word document to PDF. It’s a safe site, it works fast, and it does a pretty good job on Word documents with even a modest amount of formatting.
A Conversion Website: There are a lot of sites out there that offer to convert Word documents to PDF for free. This works well enough if you have a simple, mostly text Word document without much formatting (and if you already have a Google account). Google Drive: You can upload a Word document to Google Drive, save it as a Google Document, and then convert it to PDF. If you don’t have Word, but need to convert a document someone sent you to PDF, you do have a few options: When you’re ready, click the “Save” button.Īfter saving the PDF, you’ll be returned to your Word document, and the new PDF will open automatically in your default PDF viewer. If you want to, you can change the filename at this time. Click the dropdown arrow on the right side of the “Save As Type” box and select “PDF (*.pdf)” from the dropdown menu.
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