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Aug 22, 2009 | 10:23 am

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impaler

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Originally Posted by soitgoes

There's something to be said for the compatibility of PDF. Microsoft has a free plugin that lets you save Office files as PDFs: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en (EDIT: I see you are using Office 2003; this may only work for Office 2007, though there are other freeware third-party options that would let you create PDFs)

There appear to be a few utilities allowing MDI viewing. Maybe you could try one of them: http://www.tucows.com/preview/503893 or http://www.bugysoft.com/product_en.html?gl=1#gui

The latter ( MDI2PDF Converter) allows viewing in the free version and conversion to PDF, etc. in the paid versions.

Thank you very much indeed. In a pinch I guess I could also create a .pdf in Open Office, but I just like MDI better.

Now the utilities that you've mentioned are definitely something I am going to try, and very much appreciated. So in that scenario I'll be keeping the MDI component installed for file creation, and just using a different viewer?...well, as far as workarounds go this would be a pretty good one ^

I will try that and report back,

Many thanks! :-:

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