Attached Link: My Tutorials in Adobe Acrobat Format

I have started to convert my tutorials into Adobe Acrobat format. I have one done, and would like volunteers to look it over and tell me if it looks ok. If you like it, then I plan to slowly convert my other tutorials to Adobe Acrobat format. The advantage would be that you could save the tutorials to your computer, and read them at your leisure. Of course the Acrobat Reader is free too! It may take awhile to convert all these tutorials because I am basically doing them over from scratch, in MS Word, then converting to Acrobat format. Adobe doesn't give a lot of help in understanding just what is happening. My first tutorial is going through some process called "distilling," and who knows when that would be finished. But in the meantime the tutorial conversion seems complete? I'd appreciate any input.

I checked out your tut and it looked good to me...

My first suggestion would be put more than 1 step to a page on your html pages...it takes too long to go thru the tut, for having to click a new page after each step. "The advantage would be that you could save the tutorials to your computer, and read them at your leisure." I detest pdf files, therefore I save the html pages to my HD if I want to "read them at my leisure", so IMHO you are going to alot of trouble for nothing if that is the only reason you are doing it. Also, Adobe Acrobat can take html pages and make pdf files from them in a matter of seconds...I've done over 60 of my tutorials by opening the html file in Adobe Acrobat 4 and then saving as pdf file.

I only put one screen on a page because I figure people might want to print out the tutorials. Personally I hate it when web pages line up wrong, and you get half a page on one page of paper, etc. Adobe's documentation is pretty skimpy. The only way I found to load a web page was by inserting a URL into a box. I wanted to load a web page tutorial from my hard drive. That would involve a file dropdown menu that most good programs would have. It would also involved some intuitive behavior on Adobe's part. They don't seem to have that faculty. Dizzie, I am a bit confused by your response. You detest pdf files, but you've converted 60 of them to pdf format? As it stands, I will not do any more conversion to pdf format till I see a lot more interest evidenced in this forum. I have "a million other things to do," literally.

Pdf is the best format, I like to print out my tutorials, in order to have the hard copy, I hate flipping windows continually between the Html and the software, not to mention the memory drain.

Hi ronknights, I would make one recommendation to make your life easier. I work with MS Word to make PDF's all the time, and I find it works SOOOO much better to just print to the Acrobat PDF Writer rather then to use the Distiller. There's less time and less error involved. You could select properties for additional options like embedding fonts and adjusting compression quality, etc. Adobe Acrobat loads this printing option to MS Word automatically if you have the full version. Good luck, visualkinetics

"You detest pdf files, but you've converted 60 of them to pdf format?" I personally don't like pdf files, but because my tuts can't be "saved as" from the site, I offer pdf's for download....my futile efforts to cut down on tutorial theft.

visualkinetics: Thanks for the tip... It worked really quickly. (I thought I rememberd that option from a brief experience with Adobe Acrobat years ago.) Dizzie: Right now I believe my tutorials have helped others. I surely don't know if they're anything of commercial value.... I doubt anyone is interested in stealing my stuff. I'm just here to help. I did this kind of thing for my last job as a Technical Support Engineer. It was totally voluntary, and mostly ignored by my bosses. Now, here, I find people actually get something out of my work and share their appreciation. So I get my jollies putting them together, and they are happy to use them.

A breath of fresh air! Someone not paranoid about sharing their stuff on the WWW and worring about getting it stolen. The only motivation is helping others. You go, ronknights!!

Thanks, grin. The project will be delayed quite awhile. My wife and I have succumbed to "the flu," and it is very draining.