As an appropriate follow up to yesterdays post about an alternate PDF viewer, today I I figured a link to an alternate PDF creator is in order. The software is doPDF which does what you would expect from a PDF printer:
doPDF installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.
doPDF works on Windows 2000 and later, so odds are your Windows machine can run it. If you do not already have a PDF creator program, doPDF is just as good as any.
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Word 2007 saves in PDF format so why bother?
Is there a free alternative that will let me do some editing such as combining two or more pdf documents into one or some other basic editing?
I use PDFCreator which is a PDF printer driver. It will also combine pdf files together. It works great!
LuisR — try http://www.pdfhammer.com — online PDF editor.
PDF995 is what our company uses. It’s another free PDF printer driver and converter. http://www.pdf995.com/
I have been using DoPDF for a bout a year, after trying various other free converters (all of which functioned as printer drivers). I often have to make a PDF version of files created in Word 2003, Word 2007, Excel, Publisher and various obscure graphics programs. DoPDF does the best job handling all of these programs. It is about 97% accurate with all of them – never 100%, but never that bad either.
Other converters did a better job on MS Word, but couldn’t handle MS Publisher. DoPDF is a good all-rounder, but not the best specialist. It suuits my needs.