PDF Writer, Free?

Yes, with pdflatex you can create PDFs (the text has to be written in LaTeX, of course). There are also free tools available for PostScript-to-PDF conversion; ps2pdf for instance.

All this is more or less standard stuff in UNIX/Linux systems. But I guess that these things are available for native Windows as well.

Regards, Mario

I got my copy as part of Adobe PhotoDeluxe that came with the HP Scanjet3300C. If you go to HP's website you can download the files that were on the original distribution CD. (kids, don't try this at home without broadband)

Oppie

sig line moved to bottom specially for JT :-) thanks for the heads up.

Take a look at:

They claim free with no Spyware/Adware but I haven't used it myself.

Robert Hickey

hasn't

Thanks, Robert. Downloaded it and passed it on. Friend is computer illiterate *and* cheap... we'll see how it works out ;-)

(I have Adobe Acrobat myself.)

...Jim Thompson

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That page implies that you first print a PS file then convert. Is that a correct interpretation?

...Jim Thompson

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If he/she just wants to create "MS office" type documents, they can pop over to openoffice.org, download the suite (only 63M, so just a few minutes). You can export as PDF directly from the program. It opens Word, Excel, etc. documents. The price is right, too. (free).

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Ghostscript, which at least in my experience is the de facto standard for non-Adobe PDF creation. There even exist plugins to create a "PDF Printer" much like Adobe's own. I've used Ghostscript many times to create a PDF from a CAD drawing.

Sounds like you've already found a solution. If that doesn't work, there's always ghostscript. There is a Windows version, which you can download free from somewhere. One of the batch utilities that comes with it is a PS to PDF converter. In previous versions, it took quite a bit of flogging to make the converter work, but my recollection is that the most recent release works with no modification.

-- Mike --

yeah. and it opened my xls, doc, etc. files. so it looks like it does everything the microshaft product does, but the UI might be better/easier to learn.

mike

No, its like Frank said, you select PDF995 as your printer, then a window pops up for you to enter a filename. You can select a directory if you want a different one, then you click save. That's all there is to it.

But he said free - not powered by spam.

Scribus will convert .txt to .pdf and write them from scratch too.

-- Gregg

Try lyx

??? I have used it for over a year, and I have never seen any spam from it.

I think this is the link your looking for. This one works great.

I have been using it for almost a year and very impressed with it. But since the OP was asking for a free software package, I did not mention it.

Best regards,

Mostafa

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