Freeware PDF creators?

lipidicman

Great, lots of options. Decisions, decisions.....

lipidicman

Thanks people. Just discovered ghostscript does it all and all you have to do is generate a PS file by printing to a file, fiddly to setup but seem to do the trick. Only PDF 1.3 (version 4.0) but this seems to be all I need. Any comments on this?

fagun

gizmoleeds wrote:

Try pdf995 (http://www.pdf995.com/download.html) download the printer driver and free convertor and install both for it to work.

I tried pdf995 - the simple stuff works, but half the additional fucntionality (such as combining documents / splitting pdf files) doesn't. i just get a message to download the convertor. Anyone else have this problem? How did you fix it?

gizmoleeds

fagun wrote:

I tried pdf995 - the simple stuff works, but half the additional fucntionality (such as combining documents / splitting pdf files) doesn't. i just get a message to download the convertor. Anyone else have this problem? How did you fix it?

Do you have the pdfedit download?

I'm not sure as I've only ever used it for printing, not combining/splitting etc.

paul_h

apintofstella wrote:

how's about http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

I've used pdfcreator before without any problems, installs as a printer so you can convert most things to pdf...

fagun

gizmoleeds wrote:

Do you have the pdfedit download?

Yes, even though it keeps on suggesting I download it.

lipidicman

I finally settled on ghostscript (open source, free) and gsview (shareware, but no obligation to register, just one nag screen at the start). The results are dependant on the postscript printer driver you use (I have found a HP color laserjet works well at 600dpi) and you need to set the font option in the printer driver to 'softfonts' or you lose some symbols. With that done gsview makes conversion to pdf very easy. No ads, no spyware, no nonsense

follyfoot

Philb wrote:

I use pdfFactory from http://www.software-partners.co.uk

It installs as a printer, really easy to use as you just 'print' your document to it.

can you edit a pdf file using pdfFactory?

lipidicman

I don't think so, seems like a printer redirect. Usually you edit your document before creating the PDF anyhow

markdavey

Dennis99 wrote:

I like Primo pdf.

http://www.primopdf.com/

I also use PrimoPDF, excellent, does exactly what it says on the tin and NO popups/shareware messages!