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Seeking To Write My Own Stories Scholar 09/17/2019 (Tue) 15:53:59 No.16
Newfag here.

I'm wanting to get into writing fiction and even fanfiction as a hobby, but I also want to put my own works on PDF, particularly the original stuff.

Any tips on how to convert Word documents to PDF's? Are there any free or open-source PDF maker programs out there?

Pic unrelated.
Scholar 09/17/2019 (Tue) 15:57:16 No.17
>>16
Just so we're clear, I'm mainly wanting to write the original fiction as PDF's.

I can post the fan fiction on some other site.
Scholar 09/17/2019 (Tue) 16:07:21 No.18
LibreOffice's Writer can export files as pdfs. I'm sure there are others. I use LibreOffice to keep my resume up to date.
Scholar 09/17/2019 (Tue) 16:09:03 No.19
>>18
Thanks
Scholar 09/17/2019 (Tue) 16:10:25 No.20
>>18
>>19
just so we're clear, M$ doesn't follow it's own published document standard to intentionally be incompatible with other programs. So don't expect good conversions from Office created docs. In that case simply export directly from Word. Otherwise, create the documents originally in LibreOffice.
Scholar 09/17/2019 (Tue) 20:04:31 No.21
>>16
Scrivener is a fantastic tool, if you want to get into writing complex stuff, I strongly recommend it.
Scholar 09/19/2019 (Thu) 04:35:02 No.34
>>16
Microsoft word allows you to save your documents as pdfs.
Scholar 12/05/2019 (Thu) 12:15:53 No.110
Print as pdf.
Scholar 12/22/2019 (Sun) 03:00:25 No.113
>>21 https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/3LDkS2bO/file.html https://www61.zippyshare.com/v/E5Pi0j20/file.html These two files worked for me. You first you the installer, copy and paste the 'scrivener' file into the programs c:/ location, and then run! But you should never update the software.
Scholar 01/04/2020 (Sat) 22:09:32 No.136
>>113 appreciated bro
Scholar 09/07/2020 (Mon) 14:23:06 No.164
>>16 If you're making these things, where will you put the PDFs?
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