Thank God Manafort was an idiot who didn't know how to convert a Word doc to a pdf...

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[brewens]

1. I have no idea how to do that but I bet I could figure it out pretty quick.

Isn't there probably just a selection on the tools or something in Adobe that will do that for you?

[jrandom421]

2. Actually

There's an option in the latest versions of Word that will let you save a doc as a PDF file. He must have been using a older version of Word. The option has been in there since Word 2010.

[UpInArms]

9. I have it in the 2007 version

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[WhiteTara]

11. It's in my 2003 version too.

[underpants]

3. It's the line under where you name the document

in the Save As... process

[csziggy]

6. There are free programs that will convert any document to PDF

I use CutePDF to "print" web pages, Word documents, or just about anything else to PDF. It's free and very convenient to have around. It shows up in my printer list as an option. http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Adobe doesn't like the results, though - or those of WordPerfect PDF files. I use Adobe PhotoShop to compile JPGs and PDFs into multipage PDF documents. It will not accept the PDFs from those two sources directly into the part of the program that does this. I have to open those PDFs with PhotoShop, save as PDF, and then I can compile my document. Minor nuisance on my end, worth saving the hundreds of dollars Adobe Acrobat costs.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. Just go to "Print" and select "Microsoft Print to PDF" (n/t)

[TheBlackAdder]

18. 1) Go to CNET.com; 2) Download a free PDF editor; 3) Bypass the MSWord editing.

If you really want to make editing a PDF harder. Make a PDF, take an image of it, attach the image as the PDF.

Then, someone would have to convert the PDF to a JPEG and then use an OCR program to convert to text. Of course, all special editing, signatures, watermarks, and other identifiable stuff will be lost when trying to recreate the document.

[Neema]

4. Hahahahahahahaha. I hate Microsoft apps with a passion because they make every little thing

so difficult to do. But making a Word doc into a PDF is one of the easiest things, unless you don't realize there are drop down menus.

What a ding-dong.

[underpants]

5. Doesn't he have an "assistant"?

Gates was doing Secretarial duties for him?

[HipChick]

12. Right...but you have to get your assistant to go along with

your shenanigans..

[UpInArms]

7. Oh my ...

There’s an automatic conversion button ...

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[d_r]

8. I may be wrong

But I think the PDF file has writer information in it that would be changed when converted to word and back to PDF.

[d_r]

10. Also,

Libre office does that for free if someone doesn't want to pay for adobe or newer Ms office.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. The version of Wordpad that comes free with Win 10 does it (n/t)

[d_r]

15. the more you know .:'*

[Blue Owl]

16. He probably has a cup of coffee in the CD tray

n/t

[FakeNoose]

17. The total hubris of this guy

It never occurred to Paul Manafort that there ever would be an investigation. Or he assumed that Cheeto would get him out of it if there was one. I'm sure his own kids (or grandkids) know how to make PDFs, he could have asked one of them.

It sounds like his wife wouldn't do shit for him, but that's another story.