Alternative to Adobe ACROBAT

Biggles · 28 July 2014 at 1:18PM

agrinnall wrote: »

You can save documents directly as PDFs in Word, at least from Office 2007 onwards.

But once the trial period is over, everything comes with a blooming great advert stamped over them.

agrinnall · 28 July 2014 at 1:28PM

Biggles wrote: »

But once the trial period is over, everything comes with a blooming great advert stamped over them.

I don't know what trial period you're referring to, any document that I've ever saved as a PDF from within Word is absolutely fine.

Biggles · 28 July 2014 at 2:25PM

The overstamp reads "Your complimentary use period has ended. Thank you for using PDF Complete". I can't remember how long the 'complimentary use period' lasted.

Hmm, that's if I use the menu bar option 'PDF'. However, it seems that if I use 'Save as...' and select 'PDF', it comes out fine. I wonder why PDF Complete was bundled with it at all, then (apart from the obvious, hoping I would buy it, that is).

agrinnall · 28 July 2014 at 6:02PM

Yes, I always use Save As and PDF, I'm not sure what PDF Complete is, I don't seem to have it on my installation of Word, and from the sound of it that's a good thing!

Big_Graeme · 28 July 2014 at 8:58PM

Biggles wrote: »

I wonder why PDF Complete was bundled with it at all, then (apart from the obvious, hoping I would buy it, that is).

It didn't, you will have loaded it with some dodgy software that it has been bundled with.

I don't know why anyone would mess around with the ancient bugfest that is Adobe when there is a perfectly good alternative in Fox.

Jivesinger · 28 July 2014 at 9:06PM

pogofish wrote: »

They are - I double checked yesterday.

How do you get past the screen asking for a login?

Big_Graeme · 29 July 2014 at 10:43AM

Jivesinger wrote: »

How do you get past the screen asking for a login?

You sign up, costs nowt and they don't check.

Biggles · 29 July 2014 at 1:56PM

Big_Graeme wrote: »

It didn't, you will have loaded it with some dodgy software that it has been bundled with.

I suspect it might have been HP that did the 'bundling' rather than Microsoft. There were a few other bits of bloatware originally, mostly now disabled or uninstalled.