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Best Free PDF maker?
Jamie Phelps | May 23 2007
Hi, all. I'm sort of surprised to find myself in the Windoze forum, but that's how it goes I guess. I'm getting fed up with people sending me documents that I only need to read in their Microsoft Office format. Usually, .doc and .xls are the culprits but today I received a .pub. A freakin' Publisher file! So, I'm instituting a new "idiot" reply for such folks, and I wanted to see what you Windows users are using for making PDF's. (It's built into OS X as it should be.) There are only three requirements:
A quick search of VersionTracker didn't turn up anything with user ratings, so I am reticent to recommend any of them. 8 Comments
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 PDFCreator should work. Out of...Submitted by jason.mcbrayer on May 24, 2007 - 3:37am.
mwr;9395 wrote:
PDFCreator should work. Out of the box problems with Vista, but the Wikipedia article links to a fix or two for that. For XP and earlier, should be no problems. I second the recommendation for PDFCreator. Makes generating PDFs almost as easy on Windows as it is on Linux :P Also a handy solution to a wide variety of printing ills (since you get to print from Acrobat Reader, which offers a lot more options for printing than many other programs), and if you have cygwin, you can use ghostscript and pstools to convert to PostScript and do other manipulations (like page reordering for book printing). » POSTED IN:
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