which programs create PDFs?

[freshbreath]

what's the name of the authoring tool for PDFs? are there many?
I would like to copy and paste in text and images to create PDF documents

thanks

 

[The Lurker]

Umm any program that can print on the MAC? Sorry reason number 1001 for switching!

 

[Svend]

Adobe Acrobat and all their other products have always been Mac friendly.

 

[freshbreath]

sorry, I made this thread out of frustration
all I need is an HTML to PDF convertor and I finally found a good freeware solution that actually works and doesn't output ugliness

 

[The Lurker]

I'd say that is cold Alyssa, but I saw your answer to that. And ya MACs run windblows now and better than ever!

 

[Swerve69]

Do a search on the web for "CutePDF", freeware that converts anything printable to a PDF document. How it works is it creates a "virtual" printer and adds it to your list of available printers. e.g. create a presentation in powerpoint, hit the print and choose the cutePDF printer. You are then prompted for a file name and location and that is it! Anything you can print you can create a PDF from.

If you want to go a bit further, do a search for "OPenOffice", freeware competetition for MS Office written by SUN Microsystems; apart from being fully compatible with MS Office, it also comes bundled with a PDF creator! (It is a rather large downlaod though.

 

[jndd]

There are a lot of shareware type programs out there for the PC, and I'd guess for Macs too.

Just google them and you should find a bunch.

Generally what you do is create a document in your normal manner, then you "print" it to a virtual printer, which is the program creating the PDFs.

What you get is the print image of your document, saved in PDF format.

 

[chuck007]

I use http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ - It works great. Free.

 

[tboy]

I've been using cute pdf and it works great for all applications.

I haven't tried importing it into acrobat to see how the editing works however....