Home > Resources > Tips & Tricks >  WordPerfect Office >  Creating and sharing PDFs

Creating and sharing PDFs

You can use WordPerfect Office X3 in tandem with WordPerfect® Lightning™ to create, preview, and e-mail PDF files.

WordPerfect Office X3 is renowned for its built-in PDF publishing capabilities, which make it easy and cost-effective to share WordPerfect Office documents while maintaining control over content and appearance.

WordPerfect Lightning, a free downloadable word processor from Corel, provides a simple selection of tools that make it fast and easy to consume, capture, or reuse the information that's important to you. WordPerfect Lightning lets you view WordPerfect, Microsoft® Word, and PDF files. You can also e-mail a file directly from WordPerfect Lightning.

To get more information and download WordPerfect Lightning, visit www.wordperfect.com.

To create a PDF in WordPerfect® Office X3

  1. In WordPerfect, Quattro Pro or Presentations, click File > Publish To > PDF.

  2. In the Publish To PDF dialog box, click the General tab.

  3. Click Browse.

  4. Choose the drive and folder in which you want to save the file.

  5. Type a filename in the Filename box.

  6. Click Save.

  7. From the PDF style list box, choose one of the following options:

    • Smallest file — creates a PDF suitable for online viewing, such as a document to be distributed by e-mail or displayed on the Web

    • Standard desktop printing and viewing — creates a PDF suitable for viewing or printing on a laser or desktop printer

    • Highest quality — creates a high-quality PDF to send to a printer or digital copier


  8. In the Export Range area, enable one of the following options:

    • Full document — publishes the entire file

    • Current page — publishes the active page only

    • Pages — publishes a portion of the file

    • Selection — publishes selected text


  9. Click OK.

To e-mail a PDF from WordPerfect® Lightning™

  1. Open the PDF in the Viewer.

  2. Click the Save button, and choose Send to Mail Recipient.
Copyright © 2009 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Become a Corel Affiliate | Terms of Use | Privacy

Corel is one of the world's top software companies with more than 100 million active users in over 75 countries. Our products provide consumers and businesses with the easy-to-use and powerful software tools they need to improve their productivity and enhance their lifestyles. We produce Digital Studio multimedia software, VideoStudio video editing and movie making software, PaintShop photo-editing program, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite graphic design software, the WordPerfect Office productivity software line, WinDVD DVD player software, and the WinZip line of file compression software products. All of our products are available for a free trial software download.