Looking for free PDF creator to save docs to

Junior Broker · Apr 27, 2006

Ok...so you're young and learning...your first few jobs in the working world. You'll need to learn as much and many different software platforms and tools as you can....from Excel, Access, Crystal reports, Photoshop, Web Authoring, Digital Photography, Programming, Audio editing, CRM mgmt tools, charting and financial software...tons.....if you dont...youll be left behind when it comes to a firm who DOES use this stuff...and DOES require that you're at least a bit literate in the software. Day to day...at almost any job...if you're comfortable using many different tools...you'll totally have more opportunities....
So you tell me....how are you going to drop the 50k-100k in all this software...just so you can practice and learn on it some. Remember...once you learn it...you eventually get your future employers to end up buying some of this software.

mss · Apr 27, 2006

I purchased ADOBE Acrobat but I had trouble updating it a few years ago so I downloaded PDFCreator from http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm. It is available as freeware under the General Public License. I don't think it does the sophisticated things that you can now do with ADOBE Acrobat but it works well for the creation of basic files.

osorico · Apr 27, 2006

Try AcroPDF
http://www.acropdf.com/

Shareware, but free for personal and non-commercial use. Without license adds a "created with" line as last line of generated PDFs.

Works great and is VERY fast!

murky · Apr 29, 2006

in the distant past i've printed in postscript (using any popular HP postscript printer driver for windows, print to file) from programs like word and used xpdf (free to use, open source, and cross-platform i think) to create a pdf file.

TradingWise · May 6, 2006

http://www.primopdf.com/

Just print out of Word and select the primoPDF printer. As simple as that.

lilboy716 · May 6, 2006

http://www.cutepdf.com/

im using the free version. it's great!

Cariocas · May 9, 2006

thanks to all that recommended cutePDF. Works like a charm

Cariocas

xiaohu · May 9, 2006

try this

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

nbates · May 9, 2006

I use OpenOffice...can read Microsoft Word and Excel documents and easily exports them to .PDF's

http://www.openoffice.org