Creating and reading portable PDF files from Scientific Word / Scientific Workplace version 3.5
Arthur Lewbel  12/01 revised 3/03

If you have trouble printing a PDF file, it is sometimes due to memory problems. To solve that type of problem try this: in acrobat, when you hit print, a 'print dialog'  box opens with various  print options, like page ranges. On this print dialog box, select the option to 'print as image'.

Creating a pdf file from Sciword 3.5 or 4.0

Using adobe distiller 4.0 or higher, install the nsf's distiller job options from:  https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/FastLane.joboptions

Installing these job options first requires downloading this FastLane.joboptions file into the distiller settings folder on your computer. To find where distiller settings folder is, you can just search your computer for files named *.joboptions Once you have downloaded this file, run the acrobat distiller program. It will have pulldown menu of possible joboptions. Choose the FastLane option, and close the distiller. Reopen it again to make sure it’s keeping this option as the default
(if it doesn’t, you can force it to be the default by deleting all the other available job options files, so this one will always be the default. I had to do this on one machine, while it was unnecessary on others).

Now try printing your document to the distiller. If the resulting document still is not porting to other computers correctly, try changing options in Sciword as follows:

1. After you have created your document in Sciword, select the typeset pulldown menu, then click on "options and packages," then click on "package options."
2. Remove any packages that are currently listed, by clicking on them one at a time, then clicking on "remove".
3. click on "add," choose the package "mathtime" and click on "ok," then click on "modify. Under "categories" click on "encoding options," and under "options" click on "no TS1," then click ok.
4. Click on "add," choose the package "amsmath" and click on "ok." Again click on "ok"
5. Again select the typeset pulldown menu, and click on "preview." There are some rarely used things in sciword that require more packages than the above to work right. If your document requires them, you’ll find out by getting some error messages when you preview.
6. Click on the printer icon, and in the printer "name" pull down menu, select the pdf distiller, then click on ok (having the distiller as a printer option should exist here if you've installed the distiller correctly).
7. The distiller will now create a pdf file that should be cleanly readable and printable on any machine.

This link gives an entirely different, alternative method to creating pdf from scientific word, and provides more details about setting up the adobe distiller correctly:  http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~gt4/SWPtoPDF.htm
More info about nsf and pdf files may be found at   https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/pdfcreat.htm