Creating PDF's
Discussion
PetrolTed said:
You may be able to use PDF995. That behaves like a printer driver so in theory you could run a print command from the command line with that device as the output device.
Another one of these is fineprint pdf factory www.fineprint.com/
Lake
PetrolTed said:
www.pdf995.com/
Ted,
This one looks better than the finrprint version I memtioned as fineprint puts a watermark at the bottom of every page on the free version.
Lake
I use PDFCreator - http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ which works very well and is completely free (unlike pdf995 which annoys you with ads unless you pay).
If you have the full version of Acrobat, it comes with Distiller, which can take postscript files and turn them into PDFs. It can be set up to monitor a folder and process any .PS files dropped into it. Not sure how the licencing works if you're doing this for multiple users though. You can create the .PS files by adding a local printer, use a postscript driver for any colour laser and do "print to file".
There are commercial PDF servers I've seen which can just be fed word docs and spit out PDFs, but they've always been very pricey. A friend also set up rather a neat system on linux - used samba to pretend it was a windows server, had a "shared printer" which actually just fed the data into ghostscript and then put the PDFs somewhere else. As you can batch-print word docs, it was a pretty quick way of doing lots of them.
If you have the full version of Acrobat, it comes with Distiller, which can take postscript files and turn them into PDFs. It can be set up to monitor a folder and process any .PS files dropped into it. Not sure how the licencing works if you're doing this for multiple users though. You can create the .PS files by adding a local printer, use a postscript driver for any colour laser and do "print to file".
There are commercial PDF servers I've seen which can just be fed word docs and spit out PDFs, but they've always been very pricey. A friend also set up rather a neat system on linux - used samba to pretend it was a windows server, had a "shared printer" which actually just fed the data into ghostscript and then put the PDFs somewhere else. As you can batch-print word docs, it was a pretty quick way of doing lots of them.
I've got Jaws pdf creator (older version, came free with computer mag CD) which is dead easy to use and seems to work well - unlike some others I've tried (gymnast and easypdf). Haven't got the web address handy but a quick search should soon locate it if you want to check it out.
Have created pdf files from both Word and Publisher files with it, but think it also works with other programmes.
Not sure how much the latest version is to buy, but it'll be a hell of a lot less than Adobe.
Have created pdf files from both Word and Publisher files with it, but think it also works with other programmes.
Not sure how much the latest version is to buy, but it'll be a hell of a lot less than Adobe.
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