Comments on: Portable Document Format (PDF) Conversion

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:01:33 +0000

I also use CutePDF. Real easy to just print it to PDF just like you would to a printer.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:42:54 +0000

Thanks for the tip and the notice about the live links. I was trying to generate a PDF file with Office 2003, which doesn’t have an embedded Microsoft-provided solution. Since the files were confidential, I didn’t want to trust some random download that may or may not be reputable.

I ended up generating the document in Word, opening it up in Open Office on the Mac, making sure there weren’t any crazy formatting translation errors, and then generating the PDF that way. I would have preferred to generate the document in Open Office, but it would have taken me ages to reproduce the template that was already in MS Word.

What a pain.

By: Charles Sizemore

Charles Sizemore — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:55:13 +0000

Cute PDF writer, despite it’s retarded name, is a decent free program for converting just about anything to a PDF. Essentially, it sets itself up like a printer. Instead of printing to your printer, you print to Cute PDF writer and it generates a PDF for you. My only complaint is that it doesn’t understand embedded links, so you lose them.

If you have Office 2007, the built-in feature that saves to PDF is a better option. It preserves embedded links.