Converting (anything) to pdf

The word document is a very lousy format -- it just takes up too much space.
Now you can convert all your huge documents to liteweight pdfs. Just follow the following steps blindly :

• Goto the start menu -> settings -> printers and select 'Add Printers'
• Select 'Local Printer' when it prompts you for a local or network printer.
• From the list of printers select any printer ending with 'PS' , this indicates that the printer has PostScript support. I generally chose something like 'HP Color Laserjet 5/5M PS'.
• Click Next and in the next screen select the Port as FILE:.
• Click Next again and finish. (Say no to default printer).
• Download and install GhostView from GhostScript home page
• Now launch the Word Document that you want to convert to PDF in winword.
• In winword select File->Print. In the printer name select the name of the printer that you just added. and check the option 'Print to file'. Now click OK.
• In the 'Print to File' Save As dialog save the file to a folder as filename.prn.
• Now launch ghostView .
• Use file->open to open filename.prn in GhostView.
• Now use file->print. The printer setup dialog is displayed.
• Select 'device:' as pdfwrite, select 'resolution:' as 300 , select 'Print to File' and click ok, enter the output file name when prompted as your filename .pdf.
• Thats it ! you can now view your old word document as a PDF file in acrobat reader.