PDF Writer, Free?

I use Ghostscript/Ghostview. It has an option for converting PostScript to PDF. Just print the document to a file using a PS driver then convert it.

Leon

Others have pointed to the freebee. There are "low cost" solutions if the real purpose is simply not to pay $250, or whatever the Adobe Acrobat price is. I haven't used pdfFactory, but I've heard others say it is good for the price. Here's the link:

you

$9.95

I've used the free version of PDF995 for a few years, it works absolutely great, and the only sponsor message that I've ever seen is for their own product. I should really pop for the registration, it's dirt cheap, and well worth it.

Lukas

You should give PDFCreator a shot .... works very much like adobe's own pdf printer driver

The new version of open office is pretty good I hear You have to run Linux of course :)

Richard

It opens a blank Internet Explorer page if you aren't online when using it, and it will go to their home page if you are on line. I don't remember ever being online while I was using it.

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned it (I might have missed it, I guess) but both WordPerfect and Corel Draw have the ability to create .pdf files as one if their "save as" options.

The releases that first included this ability had the usual v1.0 problems but those have pretty much been ironed out. Corel Draw can also import non-encrypted .pdf files.

They aren't free but the prior versions of both WordPerfect and Corel Draw sometimes show up very cheaply at the traveling "computer shows." And, of course, WP is still a better product than MS Word...

There are windows binaries on their site. Very clean install, just download, unzip and run setup.exe.

Of course there are Linux binaries too, and others, (including Mac and FreeBSD), as well as source code so you can tweak it and compile for your own special platform.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

No you don't.

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To disable such nonsense, go to your hosts file and creat a dummy address for the offending software. It hangs for about 10 secs while your software rejects the address and then you can use it at will.

Al

why do you try on new version openoffice1.1 ?

BY 2n2369

That's BRILLIANT Al ! Why didn't I think of that????

What would you do if the IP address was hard-coded into the application?

Stepan

Dunno. But here's a thought.

You could find the address by turning off TCP/IP. Then you will get an error message with the IP address in it saying it is unavailable. You might be able to find/code some software that traps that IP address or a bunch of them from a file you create similar to a hosts file.

Al

Why bother, when you can just click to close the occasional blank page? The IP address doesn't even register on my firewall.

I run Open Office on Windows 2000...very fast; files are not 100% compatible with older Office suite. But maybe I don't have the latest Open Office: Downloaded ~Jan 2003. webpa