PDFcreator
For most of us, the idea of buying Adobe Acrobat in order to create a PDF file from a document every now and then is absurd. The program costs craploads 449$. Especially when there is a free and open source alternative. PDFcreator is a program that creates a PDF printer. This lets you turn anything you can print into a PDF file. Have an MS word document you want to turn into a PDF? No Problem! Simply print the document to the PDFcreator printer. PDFcreator will ask you to fill in a few fields of meta data about your document, then ask you where you would like to save it, and Walla! a PDF!
creating PDF files has never been so easy or affordable (read free!). Best of all it is open source!
You can download it from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
June 13th, 2006 at 11:45 am
Unfortunately PDFCreator doesn’t convert Word TOCs into clickable links the same way as PDF995 (also freeware). Additionally, PDFEDIT995 adds tonnes of features that PDFCreator doesn’t have.
PDFCreator is fine for quick and simple jobs. For a more professional output with many of the Adobe features I’d stick with pdf995 from http://www.software995.com/
February 9th, 2007 at 6:06 am
I tested around 10 different PDF applications for my own small office (including PDFCreator and pdf995). I couldn’t pay craploads for Adobe Acrobat, so I needed something cheaper and just as reliable and feature rich. After a month or so of intense evaluation, I bought 10 licenses of Nitro PDF Professional http://www.nitropdf.com. It’s been reliable and cost-effective for my small business…
March 1st, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Really cool links here Ari. At first I thought this blog would be too technical for me, but I already found two things I have downloaded. Thanks!
Austin