Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Text, Utilities, Windows
Convert your docs into PDF's
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Jun 27th 2005 at 11:06PM
Something Mac users take for granted nowadays is the ability to save documents (and web pages) as PDF's natively. That is, I can turn almost anything into a PDF because, to hear Apple tell it, that's the "default" document format.
On Windows you'll have to rely on the plethora of utilities out there, including Easy PDF Converter from Sowedoo software.
Easy PDF features a very simple, drag-and-drop sort of wizard-based interface for converting all manner of documents to the venerable PDF format. Including (but not limited to) Excel, Word, plain text, and PDF. Yes, there's a need. Because Easy PDF allows you to password-protect your docs in the process. I've used it to lock down all manner of sensitive info when I'm working for people too cheap to buy Acrobat. All for $24 (free trial).
Get a WordPress.com Blog
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James M said 1:10AM on 6-28-2005
An alternative to converting your files to PDFs is to export directly with OpenOffice's suite. You can't create multipage pdfs with indexes and bookmarks, etc. but you can do basic pages. Useful for people who don't want to pay to convert their resumes or press releases into another format. Software is completely free and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://www.openoffice.org - Main site
http://download.openoffice.org/index.html - Main download page.
http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/download.html - Bittorrent site
Reply
LySiNe said 3:39AM on 6-28-2005
I like using PDFCreator which creats a virtual printer that will print anything to a PDF from any app.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Reply
Michael Pate said 9:46AM on 6-28-2005
Another alternative is PrimoPDF.
http://www.primopdf.com/
Reply
Jorge said 10:21AM on 6-28-2005
Primo PDF is an excellent choice, and free.
Reply
KK131 said 10:00PM on 6-30-2005
Agree with LySiNe PDFCreator which uses ghostscript is nice. The GhostWord add-in for MSOffice also on Sourceforge is very handy too.
Reply