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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

Anybody using this one?

http://www.pdf995.com/


John
 
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Joerg

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

Anybody using this one?

http://www.pdf995.com/

I don't know how many features you need in that generator. When I have
to generate an official PDF document I typically create it in MS-Word,
text, pictures and all, then load it into OpenOffice Writer and store as
PDF from there. Works fine.
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

Anybody using this one?

http://www.pdf995.com/

John


I've used it for several years. Here is a sample PDF file from one
of my websites: http://home.earthlink.net/~mike.terrell/Sams-Index.pdf


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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DJ Delorie

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

I use ghostscript to make all my pdfs (via ps2pdf). Since ghostscript
runs the Linux printing engine, pretty much any "Print" command can
generate a pdf that way, but I usually just print to a file
(Postscript) and ps2pdf it.
 
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John B

Jan 1, 1970
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Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

Anybody using this one?

http://www.pdf995.com/


John

I've used the free version for a couple of years and it seems to work
fine. It's irritating when the sponsor window opens every time it runs,
but that will go away if you licence it.
 
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Gary Peek

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

John, what the heck version costs $800?

We got the regular simple version a few years ago and use the included
print driver, "Distiller", to create PDF's. I think the "Standard"
version at $300 is the equivalent now.
 
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Winfield Hill

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

Anybody using this one?

http://www.pdf995.com/

Google puts this up next to your question:

Create PDF - Easy to use
Award-winning software creates PDF
from any Windows app; $35
www.win2pdf.com

Might be worth checking out. Also, free Open Office makes .pdf
files directly. I see Acrobat, standard full version, lists for
US $299, upgrades from $99. Acrobat Professional lists for $449,
upgrades from $159. But how many of us need the Pro version?

Also, John, how do you get an $800 cost, or is that your upgrade
cost for multiple seats?
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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DJ said:
I use ghostscript to make all my pdfs (via ps2pdf). Since ghostscript
runs the Linux printing engine, pretty much any "Print" command can
generate a pdf that way, but I usually just print to a file
(Postscript) and ps2pdf it.


pdf995 is a shell program for ghostscript.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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JeffM

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good?
I just can't see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.
Hmmm. I thought you had a tool and were happy with it.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci....e13/c5a00869aa5164c5?q=zz-zz+print-driver-com
Makes me wonder what changed.
Anybody using this one?
http://www.pdf995.com/

From the same thread I referenced:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci....b870f7c1?q=PDF995+PDFCreator+print-driver-com
news:XyqWd.15668$fc4.12980@edtnps89
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Google puts this up next to your question:

Create PDF - Easy to use
Award-winning software creates PDF
from any Windows app; $35
www.win2pdf.com

Might be worth checking out. Also, free Open Office makes .pdf
files directly. I see Acrobat, standard full version, lists for
US $299, upgrades from $99. Acrobat Professional lists for $449,
upgrades from $159. But how many of us need the Pro version?

Also, John, how do you get an $800 cost, or is that your upgrade
cost for multiple seats?

That's what one of my people told me. Maybe he was assuming we'd buy a
few copies.

John
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Hmmm. I thought you had a tool and were happy with it.
http://groups.google.com/group/sci....e13/c5a00869aa5164c5?q=zz-zz+print-driver-com
Makes me wonder what changed.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci....b870f7c1?q=PDF995+PDFCreator+print-driver-com
news:XyqWd.15668$fc4.12980@edtnps89

One of my people just asked me to authorize buying some new Acrobat
copies for some new PC's. I was just wondering if it's worth using the
sometimes flakey Adobe stuff just to make PDFs.

John
 
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Tim Wescott

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

Anybody using this one?

http://www.pdf995.com/


John
I have used PDFCreator, http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/,
for years with no problems. Put me down as a "happy user".

Now you've made me feel like I should donate something, dang it.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

Posting from Google? See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/

"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" came out in April.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html
 
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Joerg

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
One of my people just asked me to authorize buying some new Acrobat
copies for some new PC's. I was just wondering if it's worth using the
sometimes flakey Adobe stuff just to make PDFs.

Sorry if this is a repeat but I can't see my previous post: I use
OpenOffice to create PDF from files that I wrote with MS-Word. Could
have also written them right in OO but I find that software a bit too
bloated and slow. However, OO does produce beautiful PDF docs.
 
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Yuriy K.

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Are any of the alternate PDF file generators any good? I just can't
see spending $800 for the Adobe hairball.

Anybody using this one?

http://www.pdf995.com/

Yes, even paid for it. However I found CutePDF more convenient to use.
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Yes, even paid for it. However I found CutePDF more convenient to use.

Yep, CutePDF acts just like a printer.

...Jim Thompson
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim said:
Yep, CutePDF acts just like a printer.


PDF995 does that, as well.

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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