Any safe free software to convert Word to PDF?

yungman

Any suggestion on a free program to convert Word to PDF. I was playing around and I got malware that I am still trying to clean up.

Thanks

berkeman

I have had mostly good luck with PrimoPDF. It's freeware that puts a PDF writer as an option in your Printer selection list when you go to print from Word (or other programs). Sometimes it throws false errors, but still makes the PDF file just fine. I haven't updated my installs for a while, so maybe they've fixed that weird behavior.

yungman

Thanks

I downloaded and installed. I do not see the new printer. But it installed the MailWasher Pro!!! What is that?

chiro

http://www.pdf995.com/

If you want more options search for PDF Printer Driver.

ThinkToday

CutePDF http://cutepdf.com/ Basically you end up "printing" to a pdf file

phinds

You do realize that if you have Microsoft Word, one of the save options is PDF, yes?

berkeman

Oh cool! I didn't know that was in there. I checked, and my current Word version does indeed have that feature. I'll give it a try. Thanks phinds!

yungman

I have the 2003 Office Suit. I don't see that option.

I got the PrimoPDF running, it's all good.

thanks

Topher925

This is only available in 2007 and 2010 only. It was never implemented in 2003 although MS may have a tool for it that you can download.

phyzguy

OpenOffice, which is basically a free version of Microsoft Office, and includes versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, has an "export as pdf" option. It is available here.

mirikawilliam

Install the 123pdf converter. With this software you can covert your word documents to pdf. It is a free software to download.

Hepth

http://www.bullzip.com/ as well if it hasnt been mentioned. Makes it one of the printer options.

MATLABdude

Hasn't been mentioned, but PDF Creator is free (donation ware) and open-source:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

It installs a printer driver (just like Acrobat), and allows you to combine several documents together (print them in succession, wait, and then combine). There are several programs called "PDF Creator"--you have to get the one that's on Sourceforge. The one caveat is that it prints to A4 by default, but you just have to go into the printer configuration and change it to US Letter (assuming that you're in the US / Canada). The other caveat is to disable installation of the Yahoo toolbar (can't fault them for that--gotta defray *some* of the bills...)

StevieTNZ

LibreOffice, first intended for Linux OS's, can save PDF's. You can even create editable PDF forms. http://www.libreoffice.org/download

Borek

Not to mention the fact you can prepare pdfs without installing anything. First, add a postcript printer (I don't consider it to be an "installation", you have these drivers on the disk as part of Windows, they are just not used). Second, print to a file. Third, use some external service to convert ps to pdf.

It usually requires some tinkering with the printer version, last time I tried it was some Linotronic that gave good results.