Best free PDF converter

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Kathi said:
What is the best free PDF converter/creater for ... [Windows]?
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Based on this thread, here are the freeware Windows PDF creators:

0. Adobe Acrobat will create PDF but it's not freeware.
1. PrimoPDF freeware http://www.primopdf.com works well.
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Did we miss any Windows freeware PDF creators?
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Mine :) . xtopdf - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf.

While not in the same category as the others - it doesn't work as a
Windows printer driver, its useful. Its more of a toolkit than a
comlete app, with a somewhat different approach from the others. (Maybe
because of my UNIX background :).

Currently supports only plain text and DBF files as input formats, in
stable (production) state. Has command-line tools as well as a
developer library.

Support for CSV, TDV (Tab Delimited Values), XLS (limited support) and
Windows ODBC data is in alpha, and will be released after some time.
GUI front-ends for all the above conversion modes - using wxPython is
well under way too. Next significant release - after the one which will
give the support for above additional formats - will try to integrate
all the above into a better design, with a programmable API.

Requires Python v2.2 or higher, ReportLab 1.17 or higher (open source
version).

I just posted a GUIDE on this n.g. - c.l.p. - to how to install and use
xtopdf.
This is for Windows end-users. Will be posting guides for Linux users,
and both Windows and Linux developers, later. xtopdf is cross-platform,
in both the developer library as well as the end-user tools (thanks
mainly not to me, but due to Python and Reportlab and wxPython being
cross-platform), except for a few areas like its support for Windows
ODBC - though I may explore supporting UNIX ODBC (www.unixodbc.org) at
some later stage.

Vasudev
 
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