Sunday, January 21, 2007

PDFs on the Cheap in Windows

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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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