Need Help From Buenchico Or Other Tech Minded People.

[saintpeter48]

On my Lenovo Thinkpad I periodacally make A4 picture quizzes, I download 10 famous pictures of well known people, I then crop the pictures and set them on A4 layout in Serif PagePlus, then save them to my Documents before printing them off.

I now see that Serif PagePlus is no more and I'm having difficulty transferring them onto a memory stick to take to a print shop to reel off some copies, I need change the files to PDF but don't know how to go about it, I do not have PDF on my laptop. 

Any help much appreciated, I'm very low tech minded, PDF for Dummies is what I am. 

Any help out there please, thank you.

[ToraToraTora]

I wouldn't bother with PDF. Import the pictures into a word doc. Then drag the corners to fit each page, one per page then save and get the doc printed.

[youngmafbog]

What products do you have available?  Word, Libre Office - anything?

A PDF document is/was Adobe, you can save a Word document as a PDF if you want.  But really need to know what you have at your disposal.

[saintpeter48]

Ive been using Apache Open Office 4 for a number of years, I think someone on AB told me to switch to them.

[youngmafbog]

OK, so that will be Libre Office now.

Next question, do you have one picture per page or multiple pictures on one page?

If the former select insert-> image format/size it and then EXPORT as PDF.  To get to EXPORT click FILE on the menu and then se;lect EXPORT as PDF.

Try it and see what happens

 

[youngmafbog]

Unfortunaltey I dont have Libre anymore as I have fill O365 so I had to try it on my AWS server, but thats a bit limited and highly protected so not much on there to play with.

Someone with more knowledge of may be able to help.

[saintpeter48]

youngmafbog, thanks for your help, i've managed to cobble something together with Libra and now have the task of copying older picture quizzes onto Libra from Serif, i can't seem to do it.

[Buenchico]

Serif PagePlus will run on a Lenovo Thinkpad under both Windows 10 (as my old Thinkpad ran) and Windows 11 (as my current Thinkpad is).  So, if you've still got the installation file for PagePlus, go ahead and install it.  (If you've not got the installation file, I can upload Serif Page Plus X7 to a file-hosting site for you to download but, as that would take several hours with my slow broadband connection, I'm not in any great rush to do it!).

The only problem with running PagePlus under Windows 10 or 11 is that double-clicking on an existing PagePlus file doesn't automatically open it within the program.  You have to remember to run PagePlus first and then to open the file from within it.

You can save any file as a PDF, from any program, as long as there's a 'Print' function within that program.  Simply go to 'Print' and change the name of your chosen printer, from whatever it usually is, to 'Microsoft Print to PDF'.

I continue to use PagePlus on an almost daily basis.  However a decent free alternative is Scribus, which seeks to mimic (the mega-expensive) QuarkXPress:
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Download

[saintpeter48]

Thank you your response Buenchico, I bought this Lenovo on your recomendation about 5 years ago and its been great.

It runs on Windows 7, will that be ok with what you've told me or will I need to change something?

[Buenchico]

If you're running Windows 7, and you've still got the installation file for Serif PagePlus, the software should run perfectly under that operating system.

However Windows 7 doesn't have a 'Print to PDF' function built into it.  Installing CutePDF writer can get around that though.  (It's free and perfectly safe.  I used it myself for many years on Windows 7 machines). 
https://cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/writer.asp