PDF Makers

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I second that.
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Best freeware one I've seen and been using for years, most people still
think this was only at v.95 or .99beta but its up to v2 now if you know
their new homepage.

FreePDF by Stefan Heinz
http://shbox.de/freepdf.htm

Note - The site may be German but the program is installable in English.
 
Jim said:
CutePDF: www.cutepdf.com
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Note though, that the correct name of the program is "CutePDF Printer"
so as not to be confused with the $ware also listed at the site. The
program allows you to "create PDF documents from ANY Windows
application (must be able to print)."

It doesn't allow you to open existing .pdf files and alter their
settings. Don't know of any freeware program that does.

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Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
Andrew C Cooper wrote in said:
Any good PDF makers that are not nag ware like Free and easy?
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You can try MakePDF from <http://www.lexacorp.com.pg/software.html>.
Requires Ghostscript <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/> and works as a
printer driver, but can also be run from commandline (according to
site).

Check also MailPDF, FTP-PDF and SearchPDF while your there,
as well as the other free utilities offered. (Some of the e-mail
utilities by lexacorp are for Pegasus only - others are general ones -
like the very handy "Listserv Log file splitter" (logsplit) for
example.)


All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
John said:
Note though, that the correct name of the program is "CutePDF Printer"
so as not to be confused with the $ware also listed at the site. The
program allows you to "create PDF documents from ANY Windows application
(must be able to print)."

It doesn't allow you to open existing .pdf files and alter their
settings. Don't know of any freeware program that does.
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Just downloaded and installed CutePDF Printer and am quite impressed
with it. Very easy to install (unlike the others that require separate
downloading and installing of Ghostprinter files.) CutePDF Printer was
able to make an exact .pdf file, including images and formating, from
a two column 26 page document I compiled five years ago in a
commercial word processing program (16 bit) that I use.

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
Just downloaded and installed CutePDF Printer and am quite
impressed with it. Very easy to install (unlike the others that
require separate downloading and installing of Ghostprinter
files.) CutePDF Printer was able to make an exact .pdf file,
including images and formating, from a two column 26 page document
I compiled five years ago in a commercial word processing program
(16 bit) that I use.
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Have used it for awhile and I don't even pay attention to other
suggestions...imo, it's pricelessware.

--
Tiger

"Zero is where the fun starts
There is too much counting everywhere else."
- Hafiz
 
CutePDF Printer was
able to make an exact .pdf file, including images and formating,
from a two column 26 page document I compiled five years ago in a
commercial word processing program (16 bit) that I use.
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What about hyperlinks (internal & external) and bookmarks/TOCs? Does
CutePDF retain these?
 
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Rob said:
Try PDF995 at www.pdf995.com. It has been mentioned before on this
newsgroup but I am not sure whether it is adware. Anyone care to
comment?
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It shows a pop-up browser window every time you print off a PDF, though I've
only seen it advertising the payware version of itself. Adware or nagware?

Either way, CutePDF Printer does the same without the browser pop-up.
 
It shows a pop-up browser window every time you print off a PDF,
though I've only seen it advertising the payware version of
itself. Adware or nagware?

Either way, CutePDF Printer does the same without the browser
pop-up.
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While I agree that PDF995 is not strict freeware, by acf definition, it
is simply not correct to say that CUTEPDF does the same as PDF995. A
comparison of the feature set will show that PDF995 offers much more,
especially if used with its sister app.s, also nagware.
 
John said:
CutePDF Printer was able to make an exact .pdf file, including images
and formating, from a two column 26 page document I compiled five
years ago in a commercial word processing program (16 bit) that I
use.
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Well, I tried CutePDF as well and was not impressed at all:
Compared to the same page, converted via Ghostcricpt, the quality was
horrible - lines were blurred or thinned, small writ became unreadable
and similar things. Despite the lower quality, the CutePDF page was
three times bigger than the Ghostscript variant.

I think about using pdftex for creating PDF files, that is capable of
including working links etc - but it only works with (La)TeX files and
that is not nearly as easy to use as any word processor. (At least I am
still not familiar with it)

bye,

Onno
 
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