PDFs on the Cheap in Windows

Posted by on 01/21 at 10:29 AM

The Portable Document Format (PDF), created by Adobe Systems has become a popular way to exchange and print documents. You see PDFs just about everywhere—on the Web, included with the software you buy, and even the documents sent to commercial printers. It’s easy to understand the popularity of PDF because they maintain the formatting—the layout, images, fonts, and more—of the original document.

Conventional wisdom says that you need Adobe Acrobat to be able to create PDF files in Windows. With a $299 price tag, Acrobat is a little pricey for the average user. It also packs more features than most of us will ever use.

Anyway, you don’t need to spend that kind of money to create and manipulate PDFs. You can do it cheaply, and even for free. Curious? Then keep reading.

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    Posted by Lloyd Showalter  on  01/21  at  04:32 PM

  1. Gee!  I have a Mac and if I click on print there is the option of saving, faxing, mailing, compressing, or encrypting as a PDF.  Of course this makes for a shorter tech tip.

    2. Posted by Tom  on  01/21  at  05:45 PM

  2. CutePDF was my first, and still is a simple, practical .pdf “printer”.

    3. Posted by Frank Bradford  on  01/21  at  07:45 PM

  3. Thanks for your Tech-Tips.  They are all extremely informative, well-written, and usefull! I appreciate your efforts in providing this service.
    Cordially...fab

    4. Posted by John Cushard  on  01/21  at  09:29 PM

  4. Thank You!!!

    Just so happened that I have been looking for a PDF converter..... Your timing was wonderful.

    Knew there was some reason that I deal with you.

    Thanks again
    JWC

    5. Posted by Fred Yontz  on  01/21  at  09:44 PM

  5. In your very nice “Tech Tip 110 - PDFs on the Cheap in Windows” you overlooked mentioning the very good PDF output ability of WordPerfect.  I haven’t used it that much, but for the times I did it gave me excellent results.  And it’s had this capability for several years, at least from WordPerfect 9 in WordPerfect Office 2000.  (The PDF writer I use most often is PDFCreator, and that’s for saving web pages most of the time. I’m quite pleased with it.)

    6. Posted by Ernie Gilbert  on  01/22  at  03:46 AM

  6. This was very good information and i will use the program this week to see how well it does.

    thanks

    7. Posted by Tom  on  01/22  at  04:52 AM

  7. This is a great tip. An excellent blend of free and pay software that would be hard to put together on your own.
    Keep writing articles like this.
    Thank you.

    8. Posted by Jack Berlekamp  on  01/22  at  07:19 AM

  8. Thanks for the article.  I’ve used a product for years called PDF995.  It also installs as printer and has worked flawlessly.  They also have toolsets for manipulating PDF’s.  They have an advanced version for sale but the free version works fine.  The only thing that happens is when you print, it pops up an add for their software.

    9. Posted by John Gilchrist  on  01/22  at  07:25 AM

  9. Here is how to enhance PDF file generation with OOo, or OpenOffice.org:  use the free extendedPDF at http://www.3bview.com/epdf-home.html

    This free program retains all hyperlinks in OOo documents, and more.

    If you want more information about extendedPDF and the features of each Edition then please read the extendedPDF User Guide, here:  http://www.3bview.com/downloads/extendedPDF-User-Guide.pdf

    10. Posted by Robert L. Hanson, Ed.D.  on  01/22  at  09:35 AM

  10. Good article on creating .pdf cheap on Windows.  I must say I had to laugh though.  If you have a Mac with OS X.x.x you can ask it to print>choose PDF>choose Save as PDF file>choose location.

    You are now done.  End of my article on creating PDF on the Cheap, MacIntosh.

    Bob

    ( The Designers of Techtips would have to agree with you there Robert! )

    11. Posted by kahrytan  on  01/22  at  10:26 AM

  11. Open Office also has the ability to export any document it has loaded as a PDF. And it is free unlike Microsoft Office.

    12. Posted by JACK  on  01/22  at  12:54 PM

  12. PDF Redirect is also a free powerful PDF creating software installed as a printer driver.  You can append to any PDF file in front or back of the original file.  No nasty ad or banners.

    13. Posted by music club  on  03/26  at  05:23 AM

  13. Great story, thanks. A rare web jewel:)Very useful, for I had some problems with opening PDF Interner files. Always search the web for smth interesting, including cool music mp3 music download is a site where one can compile perfect playlists. A cushy spot for a music addict!

    14. Posted by Cool materials  on  11/28  at  11:14 PM

  14. I hate when some web pages open in PDF format without asking me. It takes a good deal of time.

    15. Posted by PDF User  on  02/07  at  02:44 AM

  15. I know most of these tricks, but nonetheless there a few more things that I do not know.

    Thank’s for sharing the article, this would speed up my works.

    16. Posted by Pinoy Money Talk  on  03/04  at  07:43 PM

  16. very interesting....

    17. Posted by printing toronto  on  03/26  at  10:56 AM

  17. great post! thanks for sharing!

    18. Posted by toronto trade show displays  on  04/06  at  04:21 PM

  18. pdf are more printing purposes only!!

    19. Posted by soft bucuresti  on  05/17  at  09:54 PM

  19. Adobe PDF files look exactly like original documents and preserve source file information — text, drawings, 3D, full-color graphics, photos, and even business logic — regardless of the application used to create them.

    20. Posted by CasCad  on  05/20  at  07:52 AM

  20. Im always thinks that Acrobat is free @_@

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