Creating PDF's

Kanye · 3 Jul 2006 at 17:04

What adobe software allows you to edit or create pdf's apart from illustrator

reason being, is that illustrator is doing my nuts in because it keeps saying 'unknown error' when ever i try and save a document!!?!

arrghhh!!!

Thanks

bitboy · 3 Jul 2006 at 17:30

Adobe Acrobat?

Open Office allowed me to save as PDF last time I checked, although I'm not sure how feature rich it is compared to the Adobe products.

Energize · 3 Jul 2006 at 18:07

Acrobat, I thought that was THE program to use for pdfs.

hybrid · 3 Jul 2006 at 18:13

Acrobat yeah, although Photoshop can open, edit and save them too.

crashuk · 4 Jul 2006 at 02:19

open office allows you to convert word doc to pdf.

ns400r · 4 Jul 2006 at 02:55

Adobe Acrobat is the program used to create .pdf's.
Acrobat Reader is used to view them.

ballistic · 4 Jul 2006 at 03:09

or Office 2007 beta 2 which is a free download (as far as i know), although the pdf functionality may not be there in the final version.

Uhtred · 4 Jul 2006 at 05:32

i thought they were having to take it out of the final version. There are some free converters around

Craig321 · 4 Jul 2006 at 13:30

Energize said:
Acrobat, I thought that was THE program to use for pdfs.

You need Acrobat Pro to edit/create don't you?

Pinkeyes · 4 Jul 2006 at 14:48

Use any windows program to create a PDF. And its Free.

PDF Creator

Basically adds a PDF Icon to your printers, and you just hit print on anything, select that and it makes you the PDF.

Oracle · 4 Jul 2006 at 14:55

Same as Primo PDF.

Create the document in MS Word (or whatever) go to File and Print, choose the PRIMO printer and it will create a .PDF for you

LostCorpse · 4 Jul 2006 at 15:46

CutePDF
There is also a Free VM image of a PDF Print sever i found from VMware.com' virtual Apps.

JayMax · 4 Jul 2006 at 23:49

Creating pdf's is pretty simple, as mentioned above cutepdf is the one I'm most familiar with, but if they just install a virtual printer then they sound much the same. Editing a pdf is the hard part. Acrobat costs somewhere like £250 iirc. I'm keen to hear of any cheaper pdf editors too (<£100) - currently using verypdf for its annotate function, but isn't a pdf an image file (essentially)?

AJUK · 5 Jul 2006 at 08:47

Serif Page Plus 11 can read and edit PDFs and will cost precisely 1p less than 100 quid.

Another suggestion is PDF Converter Professional from Nuance and that will also cost less than your £100 target.

For creating PDFs the freeware open source solution of PDF Creator, already mentioned, cannot be beaten in my book.