PDF Creator

Did you try it? use it?

[henry0]

Source Forge has an open source PDF creator

I need to create a PDF once every blue moon!
So I was wondering about an alternative to Adobe $300 for which I will never get any R O I.
Other suggestion?

[Headed North]

I recently purchased docudesk's (docudesk.com) deskPDF and have been very happy with it. They have a free trial download if you want to give it a try before purchasing. I needed to get Ghostscript for rendering the postscript documents. That's a free download.

[graeme_p]

Other possible FOSS solutions, assuming you are using Windows (as you must be):

• Ghostscript
  
• Open Office: understands MS Office formats amongst others, gives a choice of quality settings for screen, print and press
  
• Lyx: importing existing documents with formatting preserved is problematic so this is best for completely new documents or ones you are willing to re-do the formatting on, very productive program once you get used to it, can create very small files if you restrict your choice of fonts.
  
• Print a postscript file (select a postscript printer and print to file), transfer the file to a linux/unix machine and run ps2pdf. I have actually done this in the past but it is rarely the easy solution!
  

[steve]

I use PDF995 - installs as a virtual printer.

There are two versions - free advert supported or paid for. Functionally they are identical.

[henry0]

Thanks all
I did not know that open office has a function similar to PDF
will look at it again
did not use it since two or three years

[wheel]

Yes, openoffice didn't use to have the create pdf function, but it does now. It's one button on the toolbar :). And it reads most MS docs just fine. Open the doc, hit the pdf button and done.