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

[Snake Man]

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?

[T_Rex]

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.

[Snake Man]

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.

[Couby]

For me, the best : OpenOffice

PDF export is native to the Writer component . Free and... open .

[T_Rex]

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

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