Squadron Newsletters

[alamrcn]

Everyone has their newsletters - or everything else for that matter - as an Adobe PDF document. Why? HOW?

Every computer has a PDF reader - either attached to the webbrowser, or separate. But I've never had a computer that COMES with the ability to publish a document as a PDF. I always have had Word and Excel, and Publisher used to be big years ago. But no one seems to publish their documents in either of these program's formats anymore.

So what I'm asking is... how are you all creating a PDF? Is there a utility to do it? Did you buy an expensive, fancy program? Am I missing a capability that might already be on my computers that came with them?

I have used this handy online converter in the past...
http://www.pdfonline.com/
It works fairly well surprisingly!

-Ace

[stillamarine]

I purchased a program at best buy, somethign publisher, I'll find out tonight the name. Cost about 30 or 40 bucks I think and has been a gold mine. It has the ability to publish in PDF format as well as edit PDFs, such as CAP forms etc.

edit...

Plus not all computers have Microsoft Word or Excel etc anymore. If they are like my laptop, they come with it installed with a free trial but after so long you can pull things up but not edit them until you pay the money......dang it i need to do that.

[Pylon]

I have Adobe Creative Suite 2 for my job, which comes with Acrobat Professional, and I can convert any doc's to PDF on my PC at work that way.

My Mac just comes with the capability built in to the print dialogs, so I just click "Save as PDF..." and it does it for me.  No special software, just a great computer.

[jimmydeanno]

Well, my fancy dancy workplace pays for Adobe Acrobat and other miscellaneous adobe products.  So I can create PDFs without issue.

At home if I need to create  a PDF I use Cute PDF Writer it's freeware and works pretty well for me.

[dwb]

PDFCreator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Allows you to create PDFs from any Windows program.  You open your document, select Print, then choose PDFCreator in the printer drop-down list.  Piece of cake.  Free, too.

[MIKE]

Very nice![/Borat]

[alamrcn]

PDFCreator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Downloaded it, seemed easy enough...
I've only gotten it to work one time - on a webpage. Haven't been able to convert a Word doc yet. I seem to be saving it correctly (after selecting "Print" and selecting "PDFConverter" as the printer) as a .PDF file, but no new file appears in any dirrectories.

Any tips or things to look for? If this starts working, it'll be.... a Very Good Computer Party - HIGH FIVE!

-Ace

[RiverAux]

pdf995 works great for a free adobe creator program.  Do a google search and you'll find it.