Or free. Free would be good...
Recommendations for a cheap .PDF creator
CutePDF. You set it up as a printer and 'print' it out. It creates the .pdf for you. Free, easy and no problems to use.
Dan
You rule.
click on the 'doc2pdf' bit. It works brilliantly and you don't have to download/install anything.
Quote: swerytd @ October 20 2008, 3:54 PM BSTCutePDF. You set it up as a printer and 'print' it out. It creates the .pdf for you. Free, easy and no problems to use.
Dan
Yep, I use this. I think swerytd may have recommended it to me to.
Quote: swerytd @ October 20 2008, 3:54 PM BSTCutePDF. You set it up as a printer and 'print' it out. It creates the .pdf for you. Free, easy and no problems to use.
Dan
Thanks Dan
Downloaded it a few days ago when you mentioned it elsewhere and it does the job fine.
Excellent product, free, I use it myself & installed it at quite a few ustomer sites.
Cheers Afink,
This means I can slack off at work even more.
If you use OpenOffice.org, the free alternative to Word, you can export directly to PDF, I believe.
Another option: Primo PDF http://www.primopdf.com/
Every program that prints files will let you save as a PDF, you don't need a separate creator.
You access the feature through the print dialogue, not the file menu, that's probably why you haven't noticed it.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 28 2008, 1:19 AM BSTEvery program that prints files will let you save as a PDF, you don't need a separate creator.
You access the feature through the print dialogue, not the file menu, that's probably why you haven't noticed it.
Only works if you have installed a suitable PDF generator program.
Almost ALL the PDF generator programs work as pseudo-printers.
Quote: billwill @ October 28 2008, 1:42 AM BSTOnly works if you have installed a suitable PDF generator program.
Almost ALL the PDF generator programs work as pseudo-printers.
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Sorry Bill, you must be talking about a PC only thing I guess, because any Mac will let you save anything from a txt file, eps, bitmap, TIFF, rtf, .doc - you name it - to a PDF and has done since I can remember.
Apple had/have a strong tie with Adobe, so the Adobe PDF generator is as you say probably built into the MaC O/S (all versions of the o/s).
Okay, makes sense. No doubt Microsoft attempted to create their own competitor to the PDF at some point and refused to pay licensing fees to Adobe and then failed or abandoned it and completely forgot they had millions of users.