What is free, easy and good PDF file creator software?

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What is free, easy and good PDF file creator software?

Post by Snake Man » 2007-04-05 17:43:02

What is free, easy and good PDF file creator software

I know this is bit offtopic but we need to get those PDF manuals for the theaters, so it is kind of... theater.. you know.. tool ;)

When I did the ODS and WrpTool manual PDF files I had adobe pagemaker (or what was its name) installed, but I always hated that becase its huge program just to convert word .doc file to PDF.

Is there some free, easy and good word doc to PDF file converter software?
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Post by T_Rex » 2007-04-05 17:51:26

I've used a thing called CutePDF for a long time. Basically, it creates a "fake" printer that you can print documents to, then a dialog box pops up and asks for a path/filename type thing to save the pdf to.

Works great.

I know there are other things that do the same thing.

On a related note, I highly recommend something called OpenOffice (and particularly OpenOffice Portable). You can open/edit Word docs and other formats, and save/export to pdf.
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Post by Snake Man » 2007-04-05 18:31:32

Thanks CutePDF seems to work pretty good, it doesn't save those hyperlinks and index catalog but I guess we can live without them for now.
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Post by Couby » 2007-04-05 20:35:46

For me, the best : OpenOffice :!: :oops:

PDF export is native to the Writer component :). Free and... open :wink: .
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Post by T_Rex » 2007-04-05 20:41:14

I used OO recently just a little and was REALLY impressed.

I'm going to try to transition to using it more.
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