programs to create .PDF files?

[Jim Oaks]

Hey all.

I need a program to create .pdf documents. I looked at Adobe but they looked a bit expensive.

Anyone know where I can get a program to create .pdf files at a decent price?

 

[Defective]

CutePDF.

 

[MAKG]

It ain't terribly user-friendly, but there is always Ghostscript. Specifically, it's ps2pdf utility.

 

[smokey]

What type of PDF file are you trying to create.
There are free programs that will create a PDF file from anything that you can print.
If you want to a program that has the fill in forms then the choices slim down.

 

[Jim Oaks]

I just want to create a document with text and pictures and save it as a pdf. I don't need fill in forms.

 

[almostclueless]

OPENOFFICE!!!!!


The ultimate future M$ office killer. Big download, but well worth it.

 

[97RangerXLT]

OPENOFFICE!!!!!


The ultimate future M$ office killer. Big download, but well worth it.

ditto

also primopdf is good. it is a pdf printer, so you can put any kind of picture or document and send it to the primopdf printer and can save it to file as a pdf file

AJ

 

[kunar]

ditto

also primopdf is good. it is a pdf printer, so you can put any kind of picture or document and send it to the primopdf printer and can save it to file as a pdf file

AJ

ive used primopdf and cutepdf, they both work fine. ive never used openoffice for pdf's but i do use it for spreadsheets and word processing and its great. you should have no issues finding all of these for free...

 

[smokey]

PDFCreator is what I use. I use it because it has the option to create secure PDF files. I send out PDF invoices to some of my clients.
Here is a link to it http://www.filehippo.com/download_pdfcreator/

 

[Twitch57]

x2 on open office

awesome program that does everything microshaft office does

and the price ( free ) cant be beat

 

[koda6966]

I hate open office with a passion. All the computers at my school now use it, and everyone has decided its worthless, so they flock to only computers that don't have it yet, and state a mortal combat like battle to use it. Many people have died.

....Not really but you get the point.

It works alright i guess. but sometimes its too smart for its own good, and does things you don't want it to.

 

[97RangerXLT]

I hate open office with a passion. All the computers at my school now use it, and everyone has decided its worthless, so they flock to only computers that don't have it yet, and state a mortal combat like battle to use it. Many people have died.

....Not really but you get the point.

It works alright i guess. but sometimes its too smart for its own good, and does things you don't want it to.

lol, microsoft office does a boatload of things you don't want it to as well.

I have found that open office is nearly as good as and compatible with Microsoft Office 97-2003.

MS office 2007 however, is a whole different animal. once you get past the weirdness of it, it does do a whole crapload more than office 2003.

AJ

 

[ryan]

check your PMs in a minute or two

 

[Dishtowel]

Google "pdf 995" it acts like a printer for any program and takes the information that would be normally sent to your printer and transforms it into a PDF.