Topic: PDF Writer availability??
Started by: ShallowThoughts
Started on: 5/10/2009
Board: Publishing
On 5/10/2009 at 6:45pm, ShallowThoughts wrote:
PDF Writer availability??
Hello folks,
excuse me if this is in ignorant question. I hear about a lot of indie companies publishing via PDF. As far as I'm aware, that can only be done if one uses the PDF Writer program available from Adobe (barring pirated copies of the program).
Is this true? Or are there legitimately free programs available to generate PDF's?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
On 5/10/2009 at 10:26pm, jerry wrote:
Re: PDF Writer availability??
Many publishing software packages have PDF creation built-in. I know that Scribus does.
If you have a Macintosh, it also has PDF creation built in for any software that can print. If you have a document and you want it to be a PDF, go to "Print" and pull down the PDF menu for options. I use this to upload PDFs to Lulu.com.
If you use Linux or FreeBSD, there's CUPS-PDF, which gives basically the same functionality under CUPS.
On 5/10/2009 at 11:07pm, Pelgrane wrote:
RE: Re: PDF Writer availability??
ShallowThoughts wrote:
Hello folks,
excuse me if this is in ignorant question. I hear about a lot of indie companies publishing via PDF. As far as I'm aware, that can only be done if one uses the PDF Writer program available from Adobe (barring pirated copies of the program).
Is this true? Or are there legitimately free programs available to generate PDF's?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
There are free pdf print drivers, PDF Creator and PDF 995 will both do the job. Just print to PDF just as if you were printing to a real printer.
On 5/11/2009 at 5:44am, ShallowThoughts wrote:
RE: Re: PDF Writer availability??
Cool X-)
Thanks for the tips, gents
On 5/13/2009 at 4:19pm, visioNationstudios wrote:
RE: Re: PDF Writer availability??
Righto. I prefer PrimoPDF, which has a free and a paid version of their software.