There are several ways in which you can get a document from a word processing program into the PDF format. Software should be configured for "black & white", 400 dpi and searchable. The newer versions of some common word processors include the ability to publish a document to PDF built right into the word-processing software. In WordPerfect, you can click on File and then "Publish to PDF" to convert your WordPerfect file (.wpd) to PDF. Other word-processors do not have this capability and you will need software, such as Adobe Acrobat, that will work along with your word-processor to convert into PDF.