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Thread ID: 111304 2010-07-21 23:54:00 Recommended free PDF writer? Billy T (70) Press F1
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1121086 2010-07-22 07:53:00 Bulzip is great I use it all the time it installs as a printer so when you do ctrl+P you choose either your printer or Bulzip has worked flawlessly on several computers to date gary67 (56)
1121087 2010-07-22 09:31:00 I use doPDF , no problems, I'm sure it would do the job but prob. so would Bulzip etc Ofthesea (14129)
1121088 2010-07-22 09:39:00 I used to use PDF Creator before I upgraded to Office 2010. It is a great open source PDF printer that also has a convert option in the explorer right-click menu. Greven (91)
1121089 2010-07-22 09:44:00 doPDF:

majorgeeks.com

The one I use pretty good for making very small pdf's with lots of picture content, I use it all the time, have tried many and this is one of the best for free.
zqwerty (97)
1121090 2010-07-22 09:45:00 PDFCreator. Installs as a printer.

Allows me to combine CAD drawings and Word/Excel documents into a single file that anyone can open.
b.... (7683)
1121091 2010-07-22 17:03:00 Another vote for PDF Creator - I switched to it after using Cute PDF for a long time

I particularly like its ability to combine various file prints into 1 file. It also appears to have full text searching ability within the file where some of the other PDF creation utilities appear to just take a "picture" of the printable area.

Trev
TeejayR (4271)
1121092 2010-07-22 20:00:00 Going to try out PDF creator now that it's good points have been well pointed out gary67 (56)
1121093 2010-07-22 20:17:00 Feature for Feature, OpenOffice.org beats everything else in producing PDF. OOo has as many features as Adobe Acrobat Professional and has the advantage over pdf printers that you can go back and edit the PDF file later on.
One click export
Acrobat Forms
Editing your PDFs
PDF security
and on and on

And contrary to previous statements, OOo has been able to export to PDF since Adam was in nappies (or at least since version 1 ;) ) The ability to edit PDF came later.
Yorick (8120)
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