Hi Regarding the creating of PDF formatted files, it will require the installation of some software (free) on your computer and a couple of steps each time you want to create one. Adobe offers an online service, but it is only free for the 1st 5 PDF files. A good one is Go2Pdf. It can be downloaded from http://www.go2pdf.com/product.html . Once you have installed both pieces of software, you can begin creating PDFs. First you will need to copy your census image into memory. This is accomplished by touching the 'Alt' and 'PrintScrn' keys at the same time. You will then need copy it back to display; either Paintbrush or Wordpad will be good for this. After launching one of these applications, touch 'E' for Edit and 'P' for Paste to copy the image back to the screen. To create your PDF, select 'F' for File and 'P' for Print; Go2Pdf with be available as the Virtual PDF Printer. You will be printing to a file. If you have further questions, just ask. Malinda Funk

I agree with Malinda. Use the free trial software and see if you like it. You can also purchase the Adobe Acrobat software (often at a big discount) and make PDF files even more simply. Right click on the census image. Choose "save as." Save to your chosen file. Open the saved image. Select print from the drop down menu. On the printer window select "Acrobat Distiller" as your printer. Nothing actually prints but you will be prompted to select where you save your PDF file. If I am emailing something, I usually just save it temporarily to my desktop and file it appropriately later. I use mine to email newsletters, send documents that my college-age offspring need to fill-out and mail and anything else that should go in its original form for printing or viewing without all thoses email headings. I'm really glad I spent the money for the full program. Sue

Malinda, I have printmaster 15 (not the latest) which also does PDF files. Just FYI Mel www.iowaghosttowns.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malinda Louise Funk" <funkm@msu.edu> To: <IOWA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:00 PM Subject: [IOWA] re: creating pdf's > > Hi > Regarding the creating of PDF formatted files, it will require the > installation of some software (free) on your computer and a couple of > steps each time you want to create one. Adobe offers an online service, > but it is only free for the 1st 5 PDF files. A good one is Go2Pdf. It can > be downloaded from http://www.go2pdf.com/product.html . > Once you have installed both pieces of software, you can begin creating > PDFs. First you will need to copy your census image into memory. This is > accomplished by touching the 'Alt' and 'PrintScrn' keys at the same time. > You will then need copy it back to display; either Paintbrush or Wordpad > will be good for this. After launching one of these applications, touch > 'E' for Edit and 'P' for Paste to copy the image back to the screen. To > create your PDF, select 'F' for File and 'P' for Print; Go2Pdf with be > available as the Virtual PDF Printer. You will be printing to a file. > If you have further questions, just ask. > Malinda Funk > > > ==== IOWA Mailing List ==== > The IOWA Lists now have their own website with unsub > instructions, list rules and other useful information. > Visit & Bookmark http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >