Free PDF creation software thread ?????????

[Analog]

Consolidating free PDF sofware for your pleasure. I've used PDF995 for a couple of years. Its good, has an annoying pop-up in the free version, but I just close it when it comes up.

If you have others, post-em!

Cute PDF

PDF995

 

[royaldank]

PDFCreator is free, I think.

 

[ragazzo]

Open Office

 

[AUGrad]

Originally posted by: ragazzo
Open Office

This may be slightly OT, but let me second the Open Office recommendation and mention another thing it does -- specifically powerpoint -> swf conversion. My classes often ask me to publish some sort of study guide. In the past, I would save my PowerPoints as html and publish them to the web. This was an awful process. The resulting data was huge, unruly, and often unusable over dialup (which many of our commuters still have at home). Enter Open Office. Open your ppt file in OO, then select export and choose swf as the file type. Poof! One nice swf file (that is often smaller than the original ppt) -- ready for dropping onto a web site or into an email.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Ghostscript+redmon+HP PS3 printer drivers works BETTER than acrobat.

 

[Slick5150]

This belongs in the software forum. In fact, it's already there:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...catid=33&threadid=997283&enterthread=y

 

[Darknight]

Hot deal?

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Originally posted by: AUGrad

Originally posted by: ragazzo
Open Office

This may be slightly OT, but let me second the Open Office recommendation and mention another thing it does -- specifically powerpoint -> swf conversion. My classes often ask me to publish some sort of study guide. In the past, I would save my PowerPoints as html and publish them to the web. This was an awful process. The resulting data was huge, unruly, and often unusable over dialup (which many of our commuters still have at home). Enter Open Office. Open your ppt file in OO, then select export and choose swf as the file type. Poof! One nice swf file (that is often smaller than the original ppt) -- ready for dropping onto a web site or into an email.

Bingo, I do the exact same thing.

 

[Gast]

Get a Mac.

🙂

 

[Wolverine27]

Originally posted by: AUGrad

Originally posted by: ragazzo
Open Office

This may be slightly OT, but let me second the Open Office recommendation and mention another thing it does -- specifically powerpoint -> swf conversion. My classes often ask me to publish some sort of study guide. In the past, I would save my PowerPoints as html and publish them to the web. This was an awful process. The resulting data was huge, unruly, and often unusable over dialup (which many of our commuters still have at home). Enter Open Office. Open your ppt file in OO, then select export and choose swf as the file type. Poof! One nice swf file (that is often smaller than the original ppt) -- ready for dropping onto a web site or into an email.

Another thumbs up here for Open Office :thumbsup:

 

[jono8]

Originally posted by: Gast
Get a Mac.

🙂

ditto

 

[GMaximus]

Or install OpenOffice

 

[dew042]

Originally posted by: jono8

Originally posted by: Gast
Get a Mac.

🙂

ditto

for the cost difference i could buy a lot of software, including acrobat.
dew.

 

[MrPaulAR]

OpenOffice works great for doc files (or any other format it opens). For stuff it cannot use I used to use a virtual PDF printer using ps2pdf on a samba share. Now I use PDFCreator.

 

[shenaniganz]

Also, for those fed up with Adobe, there's a great program called Foxit that's free and isn't bloated like Adobe--been using it for a couple weeks now w/ no problems. Now, that's a hot deal!

 

[jonnyjack]

thanks for the suggestions! i'm using cutepdf and foxit to view them now.

 

[vegetation]

Where to get foxit?