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PS wrote:

>
> I had been considering freeware that creates PDF files but someone
> suggested TIF files may be better.
>
> What are your opinions? and, any freeware available to create TIF files
> from MS WORD or EXCEL documents?
>
> Thanks for guidance.
>
> PS
>
>
The two file formats are different from each other and have nothing to do
with each other. A .pdf file (Portable Document Format, a proprietary
format owned by Adobe Systems) is a "composite" format which describes the
placement of text and images in a file and must have Adobe's Acrobat Reader
to interpret it. A .tif file is a straight (usually uncompressed) raster
graphic picture file.

..pdf files can be converted from various media using a free conversion tool
on Adobe's website. Alternatively, there are any number of tools which will
convert files into .pdf format, some paid-for and some free.

What do you want to use the final file for? Post that and someone will be
able to advise you further.
--
Gary G. Taylor * Rialto, CA
gary at cdfound dot org / http:// geetee dot cdfound dot org
"The two most abundant things in the universe
are hydrogen and stupidity." --Harlan Ellison

Gary G. Taylor wrote:

> PS wrote:
>
>>
>> I had been considering freeware that creates PDF files but someone
>> suggested TIF files may be better.
>>
>> What are your opinions? and, any freeware available to create TIF files
>> from MS WORD or EXCEL documents?
>>
>> Thanks for guidance.
>>
>> PS
>>
>>
> The two file formats are different from each other and have nothing to do
> with each other. A .pdf file (Portable Document Format, a proprietary
> format owned by Adobe Systems) is a "composite" format which describes the
> placement of text and images in a file and must have Adobe's Acrobat
> Reader to interpret it. A .tif file is a straight (usually uncompressed)
> raster graphic picture file.
>
> .pdf files can be converted from various media using a free conversion
> tool on Adobe's website. Alternatively, there are any number of tools
> which will convert files into .pdf format, some paid-for and some free.
>
> What do you want to use the final file for? Post that and someone will be
> able to advise you further.

Oh yes, something else. .tif files are HUGE since they are uncompressed.
--
Gary G. Taylor * Rialto, CA
gary at cdfound dot org / http:// geetee dot cdfound dot org
"The two most abundant things in the universe
are hydrogen and stupidity." --Harlan Ellison

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>Oh yes, something else. .tif files are HUGE since they are uncompressed.

Actually, the TIFF-format supports LZW-compression. Depending on which kind
of graphics is in the file, it can be quite small...