Arun,
Adobe 5 , and Excel 2003 works fine. So does pdfactory pro.
There is a free version of pdfactory.
With Adobe: pdfwriter was better for some things than pdfdistiller, if the two options still available.
Regards
B.Tech (mfg & mech), MIIE, gradTIEAust
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