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).
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6-28-2005 @ 1:10AM
James M said...
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
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6-28-2005 @ 3:39AM
LySiNe said...
I like using PDFCreator which creats a virtual printer that will print anything to a PDF from any app.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
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6-28-2005 @ 9:46AM
Michael Pate said...
Another alternative is PrimoPDF.
http://www.primopdf.com/
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6-28-2005 @ 10:21AM
Jorge said...
Primo PDF is an excellent choice, and free.
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6-30-2005 @ 10:00PM
KK131 said...
Agree with LySiNe PDFCreator which uses ghostscript is nice. The GhostWord add-in for MSOffice also on Sourceforge is very handy too.
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