Cheap PDF converters?

[Sir Francis]

OK for my first post here (ever), does anyone know of a cheap(er), program to convert files to PDF format?

$400.00 Canadian is just too darn much for me at this time (which is what I'd be paying for Acrobat).

Thanks i advance,

Sir Francis

[DarnFunGames]

You can always use Adobe's Web Create. It's a service tht allows you to upload files to Adobe and get PDF's back. While I havn't used it myself, I know a few who have and say that they get decent results, but it fairly requires connectivity greater than a modem will provide.

The service goes for 10$US a month, or 100$US a year. That's less thn your 400$ Canadian, but you don't get the actual software.

I know some folks here in Indianapolis who have taken classes at a small university and as part of the class been able to buy a cheeper educational version of various Adobe products.


Of course, there are always less costly, and less legal options.

[Crayne]

For some suggestions read:

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2253

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2650

Crayne

[GB Steve]

Depends what kind of files you have. Phil Masters recommends this (http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/convert.htm) and I have used this more complicated PHP code here (http://www.interakt.ro/products/Yaps/index.php).

Apparently Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html) is nifty too but awkward to use.

You could always look around this page (http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Word_Processors/PDF/?tc=1) on Google.

Cheers,

[CrazyIvan]

If you are using a Mac (we can always hope), Print2PDF is an outstanding printer driver that lets you make PDFs from a desktop printer icon (ala Distiller) and is $15 shareware.

[InvisibleJon]

Greetings,

If you're using a Mac and running Mac OS X, you can convert any document to pdf. Just choose Print, then Preview, then save the document as .pdf when the preview opens.

Best Regards,

[Sir Francis]

Well that was fun :(

A whole day spent trying to get a Free PDF Writer. It was however worth it as I have won the battle! I managed to get FreePDF to work (not a simple task). :D

Thanks for the sites,

Fran

[Matt M]

If you're familiar with HTML then something like HTMLDOC is a quick and easy PDF creator. It should be available in a free, but very usable version here (http://www.easysw.com).

Matt