Creating pdf documents

[Bødkerman]

I will need to create some pdf documents in the new year and wondered what was an effective way of doing this.

I do not want to purchase adobe acrobat at this stage as it is a relatively high outlay for an ´experiment`.

Any ideas as to what to use?

Tak for hjælpen.

Bødkerman.

 

[Cheesy Mike]

I will need to create some pdf documents in the new year and wondered what was an effective way of doing this.

CutePDF Writer - it is a virtual printer driver that generates PDF files instead of dots on pages. Very nice and best of all it is free. http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Mike

 

[Kropotkin]

Use OpenOffice (a free alternative to Microsoft Office, available from http://www.openoffice.org). It can print to PDF, if you have the Acrobat Reader installed.

Instructions here:
http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Blocks_Of_Information.html#pdf

 

[Bødkerman]

Thanks guys, happily using cutepdf as it seemed a lot simpler to use .

Bødkerman.

 

[Cheesy Mike]

Use OpenOffice (a free alternative to Microsoft Office, available from http://www.openoffice.org). It can print to PDF, if you have the Acrobat Reader installed.

Top suggestion! As I work for the company that created OpenOffice I suppose I should be whipped, shunned and castigated for not suggesting it myself.... OpenOffice and its commercial bedfellow StarOffice are superb alternatives to Microsoft Office whether you use them to create stuff from scratch or to work with MS Office documents. You can't get much better value than free!

Mike

 

[nadeem]

Mike

I've often wondered - what's in it for the companies developing the free software...?

 

[Kropotkin]

Mike

I've often wondered - what's in it for the companies developing the free software...?

Lots of things.

They can cut costs developing the software, with the help of the community (e.g. geeky types who would be programming at home anyway), they don't have to support software for free any more (support, i.e. bug fixing and helping customers solve problems with the software is a very costly business) but can charge customers for fixing bugs. They give away the software, but make a lot of money helping customers implement projects using the software. Open source (i.e. Free) software is a highly profitable business. IBM is one of the biggest contributors to free software projects, and they make several billion dollars a year from it.

 

[Jimb]

Bodkerman

I got the "All Adobe DVD" from the net and it has all the adobe programmes on it including Acrobat V6, and I mean ALL the adobe programmes complete with keygens and serial numbers, done by XiSO and is a 4.7Gb iso image.

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