PDF Printers

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » December 4th, 2007, 15:53

Anyone use any of them? The Mrs needs one to transfer something to PDF format for her coursework, any suggestions? never used one myself.

Post by **deject** » December 4th, 2007, 16:24

PDF Creator: Free, easy, works as advertised.

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » December 4th, 2007, 16:47

Cheers

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 4th, 2007, 17:16

How rare, I was only looking into this myself on sunday. I ended up downloading MyPDFCreator. It does the job, but annoyingly I can't get it to stop loading on startup.

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » December 4th, 2007, 17:19

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

It is the best one I have found so far, and I've tried about 10 different products when rolling out a citrix environment, and this was the least intrusive, and it "just works" which is always good.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 4th, 2007, 17:21

Dog Pants wrote:It does the job, but annoyingly I can't get it to stop loading on startup.

msconfig?

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » December 4th, 2007, 17:25

NOTE : If for some reason msconfig won't load (I don't know why this happens on some machines but it does) then you can use the Tools icon in ccleaner to remove startup items in the same way you would untick them in msconfig.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 4th, 2007, 17:30

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
msconfig?

haven't tried, but yeah I expect that'll do it. I was just going to uninstall it once it had served its purpose.

eRabbit · Post by **eRabbit** » December 4th, 2007, 18:34

I use PrimoPDF, just select it as the printer when printing from an application and it creates the pdf file nice and quickly

Fear · Post by **Fear** » December 4th, 2007, 22:09

Use open office, it will save as pdf as standard.

Failing that, PDFCreator is good.

Post by **ProfHawking** » December 4th, 2007, 23:22

eRabbit wrote:I use PrimoPDF, just select it as the printer when printing from an application and it creates the pdf file nice and quickly

I use this one. Works nicely

eion · Post by **eion** » December 5th, 2007, 1:44

I use Acrobat Professional, because it's provided by my employer and because I need to edit PDFs. Works a treat (as you'd expect).

On the 'free' front, I've found DoPDF to work well. If you're using Office 2007, there's a useful official PDF/XPS output plugin, too.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 5th, 2007, 1:59

Although my copy of office is

and has everything in the wrong place compared to what I'm used to, it does do useful things. I have got pdf creator buried somewhere in my utilities folder, but I don't think I've ever used it, I dislike pdf and generally avoid it.