doc to pdf converter

[Coyote_Bandit]

I need one ASAP.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

[LeftyMom]

1. open office

You can open a .doc in Open Office writer and save it as a .pdf

And it's free.

[Lex]

3. I downloaded open office last night

but have yet to try it out.

You like? Good to hear about the pdf converter. That's built in, right?

[LeftyMom]

4. I prefer Open Office.

It takes some getting used to when switching over, but I think it has more features that I use (and the .pdf capability is a huge help.) It's also not so bloated, which I like- I've got loads of hard drive room, but I don't want microsoft bloatware filling it all up.

[john_jons]

2. This one is free except the ads.

http://www.pdf995.com/

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

7. I have been using pdf995.com for years...

You install it as a printer, and you pick that printer when you need a document converted. The ads can be annoying, but they remind me that pdf995 is FREE, and that gets me over it!

[auburngrad82]

5. www.pdfonline.com

It's free. You upload the doc and they email you the pdf

[Pierre.Suave]

6. or a mac...

Seriously.

[hunter]

9. From my perspective a mac is just an expensive and irritating flavor of BSD.

:evilgrin:

[hunter]

8. For windows I've used pdf factory with good results.

http://www.fineprint.com/products/pdffactory/index.html

Open Office is free if you simply need to convert docs, but pdf factory installs as a printer driver and let's you make a pdf from any Windows application you can print from, and will even allow you to combine the output from multiple applications into a single pdf document.

(pdf creation is built into Linux, which is just one of the reasons I'll only use Microsoft products if someone is paying me to do it.)

[TreasonousBastard]

10. WordPerfect-- been using it for years, but...

as with Open Office, you have to load the Word doc, and if the doc is complex a lot of reformatting has to be done. Native WP docs convert just fine.

Sometimes it's best to use one of the Ghostscript-based converters.

[datasuspect]

11. pirated adobe cs3 suite

[DarkTirade]

12. I just use a pdf printer driver.

the one I use is called CutePDF if I recall correctly. What it does is emulate a printer driver, so you go to print any kind of file and you actually 'print' it directly to a pdf file.

It can't do all the tricks you can do with some of the software that's out there, but it converts things to PDF and it's free. :) So that's all I care about.

[MagsDem]

13. Primopdf

Free, works great, no ads.

http://primopdf.com/