tommyk Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Any suggestions for an easy to use free PDF maker? Foxit? Cute? PDFCreater? Others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireryone Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 i've usually used CutePDF or PDF995. fireryone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 I use Solid PDF Creator. I've tried a few - anyone seen any objective comparison tests? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 28, 2010 Moderators Share Posted January 28, 2010 DoPDF for no frills, produces a very small file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted January 28, 2010 Moderators Share Posted January 28, 2010 I use the freeware Tomahawk PDF+ and have for years. It really gets the job done for a freeware and there's no goofy conversion drivers or any crap like that to install. It also has it's own file format for saving your work before converting to PDF, and it can import stuff like RTF, etc. The only thing though it really helps to also download the separately available spell checker dictionaries on its download page, then unzip everything into one tidy folder and you've got a very good PDF maker. With Tomahawk PDF+ if you want to insert images it's best to only import lossless .bmp and let the software itself handle optimizing the images making them smaller automatically by itself - so if you have some snazzy picture in .jpg or some other lossy format save it as a bitmap before importing it into Tomahawk PDF+. If you import lossy formats like .jpg, .gif, .png they'll look good in Tomahawk PDF+, however the resulting image quality in your PDF will be horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DennisD Posted January 28, 2010 Moderators Share Posted January 28, 2010 I'm gonna have a look at some of these myself, but do you guys not know how to put links into your suggestions? With the exception of Andavari of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireryone Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 printer drivers: http://www.cutepdf.com/ http://www.pdf995.com/ ( Links just for you Dennis lol ) fireryone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abu aufa Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 DoPDF for no frills, produces a very small file. me too until it produced wrong character/font (xls converter) then I switched to NovaPDF, more powerful than doPDF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyk Posted January 29, 2010 Author Share Posted January 29, 2010 abu: I was looking for a FREE PDF creator. I just tried doPDF. It seems OK for what I need, but I'm still open to alternatives if anyone has a better one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Augeas Posted January 29, 2010 Moderators Share Posted January 29, 2010 There's always zamzar.com. I pushed the same Word document though doPDF and zamzar, and couldn't tell the difference between the two resultant files, except that doPDF was 19k and zamzar 67k. doPDF is the easier to use though, as it's on your pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted January 29, 2010 Moderators Share Posted January 29, 2010 Don't forget if you don't want to install any PDF maker software that you can freely convert them on Media Convert - although I don't like the resulting quality of the PDF's it makes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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