Re: Adobe Acrobat 6.0 VS WORD 2003

Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat 6.0 VS WORD 2003
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:13:51 -0400




Lucero, Peggy wrote:

This is a two part question:

1. Are most of you who are doing tech writing using WORD or Adobe for your formal documentation? I understand that the major plus of working with Adobe is that no one can alter the content of the document (that is not suppose to!) But, I believe this is now a feature of WORD '03, being able to lock/password protect a document, so this can't really be THE reason someone chooses Adobe over WORD.

You create (write) documents in WORD. You create PDFs from those WORD and other documents in order to deliver them across various platforms to end users. End users, providing they have the tools and expertise, can modify PDF files (you can do it a page at a time in Illustrator for example). Don't confuse them. WORD is for development and PDF is for delivery.

2. I have been using WORD '03, per bosses' direction, for everything so far. Today a developer sent me 12 Adobe documents, each one is a few pages in length, and I'm wondering if these can be placed into the system design document by a cut/paste with success?


If you have Acrobat 6.0 or greater, you can save the file as in RTF format, then insert that RTF file into your WORD document, Another method is to used copy/paste. Highlight the text in the PDF file you want to copy and paste it into your WORD document.


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