Adobe Acrobat Pro No Longer Required
Today I needed to print my resume (a Word document) to PDF. I don’t normally create a lot of PDFs, so I haven’t had a need to buy Adobe Acrobat Professional (not the reader).
Out of curiosity, I wondered how much the professional version cost. $449! Wow… What a rip-off, especially when there are quite a few free programs that let you print to PDF, such as PDFCreator and CuteWriter. PDFCreator is fully open-source, and CuteWriter is freeware (though it is supposedly {ad,mal,spy}ware clean).
I actually found an extremely comprehensive list of the best PDF-related Freeware. I was surprised how many great programs are out there for free.
Hopefully someone finds that useful!
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June 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
Thanks for the links. I just installed the PDFCreator and I’m very happy with it!