Looking for a PDF utility

Taka Muraoka

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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Ed Poore

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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Taka Muraoka

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

CutePDF

Looks pretty nice. Thanks :-)

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Jeremy Falcon

Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:

high quality images sometimes get blurred.

Wouldn't that constitute as a failure then? :-D Jeremy Falcon

El Corazon

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)

El Corazon

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)

Eurosid

PDF995 [^] works well for me.

El Corazon

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

Jeremy Falcon

Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:

sure, sure... blame the software first...

But of course! Muwahahaha! :evil grin: :-D Jeremy Falcon

Orcrist

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.

Bassam Abdul Baki

Don't recall the part where it says you need Acrobat Reader?

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Paul Conrad

Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:

PDFCreator[^]

Thanks for the link, Anna.

LongRange Shooter

Why not ask Microsoft for one. ( heh heh heh )

Luis Alonso Ramos

Not for what I have tried to do. If someday I try to make a PDF of a big high-resolution image, then thay might be a failure. :)

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Luis Alonso Ramos

High quality images small on the page (screenshots are an example where I don't care about it looking less than perfect.) I'll try changing some of the configuration parameters to see if I get better results (or at least know about them :)). Thanks!

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Ryan Binns

I use OpenOffice to open the word document, and export it as a PDF. Works beautifully.

Ryan

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Taka Muraoka

theRealCondor wrote:

Why not ask Microsoft for one.

The new Office can save to PDF, I just won't be using it for a while... :-)

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