Looking for a PDF utility
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
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check out Foxit Software[^] they give away a free PDF viewer which is excellent, and from what I've been told their editor is really good. They have a 30-day trial you can download.
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check out Foxit Software[^] they give away a free PDF viewer which is excellent, and from what I've been told their editor is really good. They have a 30-day trial you can download.
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
Bad Astronomy |Development Blogging|Viksoe.dk's Site -- modified at 12:53 Wednesday 19th July, 2006The editor is okay for small edits, page splittign etc., but for creating documents it's a not (yet) suitable.
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least)
You could always buy an older version of Acrobat. So that way you could upgrade to 7.0 later on if and when you do need more options. The upgrade to Acrobat 7.0 Standard is only like $99. With saying that, I still use Acrobat 6.0 Standard, as the 7.0 upgrade really wasn't worth it for my needs. And while I haven't tested other products, I can say Acrobat will give you the most control over your PDF files. And don't ask me why, but Acrobat Standard and Professional both load faster than the Reader (pre 7.0 that is). :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
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PDFCreator or PrimoPDF aren't bad .... PDFCreator is freeware Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
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check out Foxit Software[^] they give away a free PDF viewer which is excellent, and from what I've been told their editor is really good. They have a 30-day trial you can download.
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
Bad Astronomy |Development Blogging|Viksoe.dk's Site -- modified at 12:53 Wednesday 19th July, 2006Douglas Troy wrote:
their editor is really good
Yes, I was taking a look at that but it's a tool for letting you edit existing PDF documents, not author new ones :-)
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Douglas Troy wrote:
their editor is really good
Yes, I was taking a look at that but it's a tool for letting you edit existing PDF documents, not author new ones :-)
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Ah well, my apologies for misguiding you there ... I use their viewer, and it's great. Didn't realize their editor was only that; now I know.
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
0 bottles of beer on the wall, 0 bottles of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 4294967295 bottles of beer on the wall. Awasu 2.2.3 [^]: A free RSS/Atom feed reader with support for Code Project.
I will second Anna's suggestion of PDFCreator. I use it regularly and it has never failed me! Though I sometimes don't have a lot of success with images -- high quality images sometimes get blurred.
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
0 bottles of beer on the wall, 0 bottles of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 4294967295 bottles of beer on the wall. Awasu 2.2.3 [^]: A free RSS/Atom feed reader with support for Code Project.
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PDFCreator or PrimoPDF aren't bad .... PDFCreator is freeware Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
Ray Kinsella wrote:
PDFCreator or PrimoPDF aren't bad
PDFCreator seems good but Primo made a real mess of the images in my document. Thanks.
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
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I'll second CutePDF, it also adds the capability that you can create PDFs from any document. Wonderful utility until I got the full-blown Distiller.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
CutePDF
Looks pretty nice. Thanks :-)
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I will second Anna's suggestion of PDFCreator. I use it regularly and it has never failed me! Though I sometimes don't have a lot of success with images -- high quality images sometimes get blurred.
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
high quality images sometimes get blurred.
Wouldn't that constitute as a failure then? :-D Jeremy Falcon
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I will second Anna's suggestion of PDFCreator. I use it regularly and it has never failed me! Though I sometimes don't have a lot of success with images -- high quality images sometimes get blurred.
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
high quality images sometimes get blurred.
high quality images that are small on the page or full page? Default DPI on my copy is 600dpi which seems reasonable for mine. You can also override the default compression if the image is being compressed too much, you can use the highest quality jpeg you prefer on all PDF documents. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
0 bottles of beer on the wall, 0 bottles of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 4294967295 bottles of beer on the wall. Awasu 2.2.3 [^]: A free RSS/Atom feed reader with support for Code Project.
I still like PDFcreator best, in some ways over distiller, in some ways not. For over 9/10 of my documents PDFcreator is fast and easy and all I need. For a few more I need to tweak the settings, which are much easier to tweak in the latest version! But only a few cases a year do I ever need more. I've been following PDFcreator for almost two years, maybe longer, back when it was a manual install part by part. The latest version has brought all that together into a nice package with tunable parameters for your document and image quality. You may not know it is there, because it wasn't previously, but it has everything I have needed so far. I haven't tried the server mode yet, I have used it in that mode in previous versions, but since installed the software everywhere I could as stand-alone. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I'm looking for something to create PDF's with. I don't really need something full-blown like Distiller (right now, at least), just to be able to compose simple documents in Office and then save them as a PDF. Thing is, while I'm at it, I guess I may as well get something that can convert PDF's to Word, plus all the other kind of things you need to do with PDF's that I don't yet realize you need to do. Free is good but I don't mind spending a bit of money if it's worth it. This[^] is a free online converter that seems to work well and they have a PDF printer driver that also seems to work well but I thought I'd ask to see if people had any recommendations.
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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
high quality images sometimes get blurred.
Wouldn't that constitute as a failure then? :-D Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Wouldn't that constitute as a failure then?
or configuration? :-D sure, sure... blame the software first... ;P It may be a failure, not sure what he is trying to do. Only a couple of our high resolution images are too high resolution for PDFcreator and even then I may know a way around it.... edit: I just tested it. I was able to even turn off compression, if you really, really want high quality images to stay untouched, turn off compression and resampling and huge file, but perfect image. I can read the text off the corner of the poster. :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 14:50 Wednesday 19th July, 2006
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Wouldn't that constitute as a failure then?
or configuration? :-D sure, sure... blame the software first... ;P It may be a failure, not sure what he is trying to do. Only a couple of our high resolution images are too high resolution for PDFcreator and even then I may know a way around it.... edit: I just tested it. I was able to even turn off compression, if you really, really want high quality images to stay untouched, turn off compression and resampling and huge file, but perfect image. I can read the text off the corner of the poster. :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 14:50 Wednesday 19th July, 2006
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
sure, sure... blame the software first...
But of course! Muwahahaha! :evil grin: :-D Jeremy Falcon
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CutePDF is also what I use and it does the job while not breaking the bank. Keep in mind that it is really just using Ghostscript (open source) and a shell around Adobe Reader. But it works pretty slick except for bookmarks (after 2 years they still suck) but otherwise it is a good product and alot cheaper than Adobe. D.