freeware PDF creator and viewer

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I need a freeware PFD viewer and creator...Something that will convert
txt and html to PDF
 
I've tried a few and not very lucky.
Pdf995 appeared to be spyware to some anti-virus software.
Some other freebies just bombed after installing.

I ended up buying a $20 version 3.0 full Acrobat on eBay. But now I'm
trying to figure out where to install is so it doesn't collide with
more advanced reader-only Acrobat.



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I've tried a few and not very lucky.
Pdf995 appeared to be spyware to some anti-virus software.
Some other freebies just bombed after installing.
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Thanks, I was guessing PDF995 could be invasive. I'm using Jaws PDF
writer which is quite nice [not freeware, was freebee on magazine cover
CD].
I ended up buying a $20 version 3.0 full Acrobat on eBay. But now
I'm trying to figure out where to install is so it doesn't collide
with more advanced reader-only Acrobat.
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Inconvenient but you might need a dual boot system, one specifically
for Acrobat 3.0
 
Quoting Mike Dee [[email protected]], that posted to alt.comp.freeware
Thanks, I was guessing PDF995 could be invasive. I'm using Jaws PDF
writer which is quite nice [not freeware, was freebee on magazine cover
CD].
Click to expand...

IIRC PDF995 is nagware. It tries to launch an ad page on the web browser every
time that it's used.
 
Quoting Mike Dee [[email protected]], that posted to
alt.comp.freeware on 24 Oct 2004 00:55:51 GMT under article
Thanks, I was guessing PDF995 could be invasive. I'm using Jaws
PDF writer which is quite nice [not freeware, was freebee on
magazine cover CD].
Click to expand...

IIRC PDF995 is nagware. It tries to launch an ad page on the web
browser every time that it's used.
Click to expand...

Yes. apparently if you pay the shareware fee that stops. Haven't used
it myself though, would be interesting to hear from someone who paid
for it as to what it's like.
 
Free PDF
Make PDF files free. Requires RedMon (free) and Ghostscript (also free).
Also at http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/freepdf.htm [Report a dead link]
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/17968.shtml

Gymnast
Convert text files to PDF. [Report a dead link]
http://www.oakworth.demon.co.uk/gym_full.zip

PDF Creator , 7,500kb
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any
application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a
PDF-machine. It's the easy way of creating PDFs out of common software Like
Word, StarCalc and every other Windows Application that uses the Windows
Printers. [Report a dead link]
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

PDF utils

* http://www.download-freeware-shareware.com/System-Utilities.php?
Theme=40

[Report a dead link]

PDFGen
Free PDF printer device. Just print to this device to make a PDF. [Report a
dead link]
http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/Download. asp?FileID=23344

pdftotext , Rating: 3
Convert PDF files to text files. Tends to leave a lot of spaces between
letters of words. [Report a dead link]
http://www.webattack.com/get/pdftotext.html

Xpdf , Editor's Pick
Viewer for PDF files for unix and windows. Includes PDF text extractr. This
text extractor works much better than pdftotext above. It also can make basic
html documents. It can keep text order, which means if your page has 2 columns,
the text for col 1 will appear first, then for col 2. [Report a dead link]
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html

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