Need help making pdf's

[thespeakerbox]

Are there any programs other than adobo acrobat that can create .pdf files from images? Or make user changeable forms. I've search up and down sourceforge and can pick up anything? Link please.

Thanks alot.

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

OpenOffice

 

[thespeakerbox]

Wow. This is amazing. Thanks. I had the prog and never saw it. Can office do this as well?

Does anyone know how to create pdf forms in Open Office that allow users to fill in information via acrobat reader (like the tax forms do)?

 

[Armitage]

Another general purpose resource is ps2pdf - basically lets lets you make a pdf from any app that has a "print to file" option.

Don't know about the fill-in-form stuff though.

 

[Nothinman]

Another general purpose resource is ps2pdf - basically lets lets you make a pdf from any app that has a "print to file" option.

Only if that file is a PostScript file, that's what the ps in ps2pdf is. If you have some crappy HP All-In-One printer that doesn't understand PS and you print to a file using that driver you'll get some proprietary blob of data that only HP printers understands.

 

[yoda291]

pdf995 will do it IIRC.

 

[Schadenfroh]

try this
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Another general purpose resource is ps2pdf - basically lets lets you make a pdf from any app that has a "print to file" option.

Only if that file is a PostScript file, that's what the ps in ps2pdf is. If you have some crappy HP All-In-One printer that doesn't understand PS and you print to a file using that driver you'll get some proprietary blob of data that only HP printers understands.

Yep - but you can always install a driver for a postscript printer for that purpose.

 

[Miramonti]

No offense to freeware, but I've used pdf995 w/pdfedit, pdf creator, and cutepdf, and the quality from them all sucks compared to printing docs to pdf using Acrobat's pdf printer.

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

Originally posted by: thespeakerbox
Wow. This is amazing. Thanks. I had the prog and never saw it. Can office do this as well?

Does anyone know how to create pdf forms in Open Office that allow users to fill in information via acrobat reader (like the tax forms do)?

I needed to do that a while. The thing is I called up adobe about it, they expected me to pay $10,000 on software to unlock these 'hidden features.'

Product name: Adobe Document Server for Reader Extensions

That's adobe, trying to rape every penny off you...

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: LASTGUY2GETPS2

Originally posted by: thespeakerbox
Wow. This is amazing. Thanks. I had the prog and never saw it. Can office do this as well?

Does anyone know how to create pdf forms in Open Office that allow users to fill in information via acrobat reader (like the tax forms do)?

I needed to do that a while. The thing is I called up adobe about it, they expected me to pay $10,000 on software to unlock these 'hidden features.'

Product name: Adobe Document Server for Reader Extensions

That's adobe, trying to rape every penny off you...

:roll:

Acrobat is one of Adobe's bread and butter products. The reader is free so that the format is widely distributed and easy to use. Authoring is where they make their money.

And I'm pretty sure you just need Acrobat Professional to make form-fillable PDFs. Document Server allows you to have online form submission and other cool things.

 

[LASTGUY2GETPS2]

Fillable yess, but not saveable for adobe acrobat reader users....

That's what i think he wants....

 

[rocketbubba]

I've been using CutePDF and it's fast and works fine. It's not freeware though. It's shareware and it will let you make 100 PDFs before making you pay $ (around $50 I think). For now it's enough to buy me some time until I can find some freeware (I hope), otherwise I'll just buy a copy.

 

[rocketbubba]

Here's a free one: http://www.primopdf.com