{"id":490,"date":"2006-02-23T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2006\/02\/creating-a-pdf-file\/"},"modified":"2006-02-23T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T12:12:00","slug":"creating-a-pdf-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2006\/02\/creating-a-pdf-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating a PDF File"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have ever needed to create a PDF file, we have a program installed at the Reference Desk that I would recommend to you. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/primopdf.com\">PrimoPDF<\/a> and it&#8217;s a terrific FREE program that allows you to create PDF files. While there are all kinds of security settings you can implement (like disabling printing, etc.), the basic function is simple.<\/p>\n<p>Just print your document and select PrimoPDF as your &#8220;printer.&#8221; It will ask you for a file name and allow you to change security settings before you click OK and save the PDF file. Pretty basic.<\/p>\n<p>Another nice thing is that, since this program acts as a &#8220;printer,&#8221; anything you can print you can make a PDF file. Doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s a Word document, a spreadsheet, a webpage, or a library catalog entry. If you can print it, you can make it a PDF. Just change your printer from your default to PrimoPDF.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see it in action, feel free to stop by the Reference Desk.<\/p>\n<p>Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have ever needed to create a PDF file, we have a program installed at the Reference Desk that I would recommend to you. It&#8217;s called PrimoPDF and it&#8217;s a terrific FREE program that allows you to create PDF files. While there are all kinds of security settings you can implement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[6860,196],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-reference","tag-technology-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}