Make free PDF files!

[flythunderbird]

For the Java coder geeks among us ... free PDF creators that can be integrated into your programs:

Servlet Utilities
iText

iText is much more robust than Servlet Utilities as far as PDFs go, but it is also more involved. I've used both, and each have their place.

With regard to PDFs being an 'open standard':

Adobe's PDF creation rules

Have fun, folks.

 

[cdrudge]

PDF995 works pretty good for simple things like basic text. If you do anything with tables, lots of text boxes, or complex things, your results will be less then perfect. For it's price, its a pretty good program.

 

[ellory]

Thanks chuck2002 - PDFCreator is much better than PDFMailer.

Will work great with FreeDist to stictch multiples together

 

[hallf]

Originally posted by: chuck2002
You guys need to dump pdf995 and the ghost script one cuz I just found pdfcreator on sourceforge.net yesterday. Check it out for your free, no ad, pdf creation needs:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

I keep getting a "page not found" error...is the site gone?

EDIT: Nevermind...sourceforge is down for maintenance

 

[tigerbait]

Originally posted by: hallf

Originally posted by: chuck2002
You guys need to dump pdf995 and the ghost script one cuz I just found pdfcreator on sourceforge.net yesterday. Check it out for your free, no ad, pdf creation needs:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

I keep getting a "page not found" error...is the site gone?

We're Sorry.
The SourceForge.net Website is currently down for maintenance.
We will be back shortly

 

[Foghorn]

Great thread!

 

[mrbass]

Originally posted by: chuck2002
You guys need to dump pdf995 and the ghost script one cuz I just found pdfcreator on sourceforge.net yesterday. Check it out for your free, no ad, pdf creation needs:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

thanks a bunch...GPL..awesome. I have a ton of people installing OpenOffice 1.1 beta 2 just to print out PDF files. This will replace that need for those already with OfficeXP.

 

[ellory]

A great resource for PDF tools, some free can be found here.

Note that the search tool is not completely effective, and there are more free tools available than show up under the Advanced Search option with "free" specified. This is because, while the site does a good job of linking you to tools, it does not always stay up to date with license changes from "pay" to "ad supported" to "free"

Only way to do this is to find the tools you're interested in and then click through to the source site to find out the license

 

[SyahM]

neat!

 

[tlowing]

I been using an Open Source program called HTMLDoc. I'm not sure what the unregistered program leaves out, but I've compiled it myself anyhow. Shoot me an email if you want a copy og my compilation. The neat feature is being able to mirror content in HTML and them as a PDF including internal links.

 

[calboy98]

i like how you can edit pdf's and convert them to html/doc with pdf995. are there any other free programs out there with these capabilities?