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  • Biggles
    Biggles Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    agrinnall wrote: »
    You can save documents directly as PDFs in Word, at least from Office 2007 onwards.
    But once the trial period is over, everything comes with a blooming great advert stamped over them.
  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    Biggles wrote: »
    But once the trial period is over, everything comes with a blooming great advert stamped over them.

    I don't know what trial period you're referring to, any document that I've ever saved as a PDF from within Word is absolutely fine.
  • Biggles
    Biggles Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    edited 28 July 2014 at 1:29PM
    The overstamp reads "Your complimentary use period has ended. Thank you for using PDF Complete". I can't remember how long the 'complimentary use period' lasted.

    Hmm, that's if I use the menu bar option 'PDF'. However, it seems that if I use 'Save as...' and select 'PDF', it comes out fine. I wonder why PDF Complete was bundled with it at all, then (apart from the obvious, hoping I would buy it, that is).
  • agrinnall
    agrinnall Posts: 23,344 Forumite
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    Yes, I always use Save As and PDF, I'm not sure what PDF Complete is, I don't seem to have it on my installation of Word, and from the sound of it that's a good thing!
  • Big_Graeme
    Big_Graeme Posts: 3,220 Forumite
    Biggles wrote: »
    I wonder why PDF Complete was bundled with it at all, then (apart from the obvious, hoping I would buy it, that is).

    It didn't, you will have loaded it with some dodgy software that it has been bundled with.

    I don't know why anyone would mess around with the ancient bugfest that is Adobe when there is a perfectly good alternative in Fox.
  • Jivesinger
    Jivesinger Posts: 1,221 Forumite
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    pogofish wrote: »
    They are - I double checked yesterday. :)
    How do you get past the screen asking for a login?
  • Big_Graeme
    Big_Graeme Posts: 3,220 Forumite
    Jivesinger wrote: »
    How do you get past the screen asking for a login?

    You sign up, costs nowt and they don't check.
  • Biggles
    Biggles Posts: 8,209 Forumite
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    Big_Graeme wrote: »
    It didn't, you will have loaded it with some dodgy software that it has been bundled with.
    I suspect it might have been HP that did the 'bundling' rather than Microsoft. There were a few other bits of bloatware originally, mostly now disabled or uninstalled.
  • mr_accountant
    mr_accountant Posts: 822 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    another one for PDF-x change viewer, easy to use and can do some basic editing all for free
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