PC Users:: What do you use to create FREE PDF files?

Saladsamurai

How can I create a PDF file w/out buying anything?

Why does adobe try to swindle you into buying something?

It's cake on my Mac, but on my PC not so much.

So what do you guys use?

Thanks,
Casey

Kurdt

You can use LaTeX typesetting programs to creat PDF's. They're free.

ranger

I use PrimoPDF.

Saladsamurai

Er... I think that would be a little cumbersome. Let's say I wanted to make a PDF of this screen right now. How would I do that?

Downloading Now. I'll give this a whirl. Thanks

Evo

The company that invents software certainly has the right to sell that software.

Anyone that attempts to post links to cracked or even remotely illegal software will be banned.

mXSCNT

LaTeX and OpenOffice will make PDFs, both being free.

Saladsamurai

Not anymore Just read this:

Nothing is ever free is it.

Saladsamurai

Settle down now. Nobody said they didn't have the right. Just think its a little silly when there is plenty of open source stuff out there.

Hmmm. I will have to look into the OpenOffice thing.

berkeman

Weird. That was in the install from the download at the PrimoPDF website? I hadn't seen that before. I've been happy with PrimoPDF, but it sounds like I will have to look into that...

slider142

A PDF document is meant to be a digital version of a printed static page; to create a PDF of this screen, you would have to specify a dpi/ppi so that a physical size could be calculated. The PDF is ideally meant to be identically printed on every machine, irrespective of fonts available, etc. Modern PDFs have added multimedia content and embedded notes.
As such, what you want to do is install a virtual printer whose output is a PDF file. Bullzip offers freeware for this purpose.

Evo

PrimoPDF advertises itself as a PDF convertor which installs itself as a printer. "PrimoPDF does produce larger files than the original software, this program really just covers the basics of PDF publishing. If you want PDF encryption, linearization, or editing capabilities, you'll still have to shell out some dough".

It's not really a PDF file, it just imitates it, but probably that's all you want.

mXSCNT

Since last summer, PDF has been an open standard, which anyone is free to implement.

(before that time they could still implement it, there just wasn't a standard to work from)

shoehorn

If you wanted to print this page to a pdf file you could, for instance, install the PDFcreator driver. The print menu from all of your Windows apps will then give you the option to print to a pdf file in addition to printing to hard copy.

rootX

PDF Creator
plus
PDF Escape.

Two different things - different purposes

http://diaryproducts.net/for/program...sic_javascript
Could also be of some interest

shoehorn

Um, yes...

rootX

Yes I missed that. I also missed Evo saying not to put links here. Not knowing anything about the legality of PDF creator I decided to remove the link

Saladsamurai

Yeah. I started to run the executable and for some reason, for once, actually read the EULA.