Charlie R Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 Here is a free software download - http://www.cutepdf.com/ - works nice. Make sure you download the free version as there is a paid for version. Basically, once installed on a Windows computer, just pull any document up to print but don't send it to your default printer. This software will convert almost anything to PDF. Pull down the menu to select a printer and you will see a printer named CutePDF. Print to that and it will ask you where to "print" to so you just select a folder where you want your PDF to be and hit print. Bingo, your document is transformed into a PDF and placed wherever you selected. Works nice for me, I keep my inspection agreement as a Word doc, but change it to a PDF for e-mailing. I know some of you use Word for inspection reports, this could help change those to PDFs for e-mailing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Meiland Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 I use a similar free PDF generator.... PrimoPDF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Hockstein Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 I have been using dopdf for a while and have had no problems. It is free software that can be obtained via CNET. Just search dopdf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 There's a ton of free PDF printer software out there. Some work well, others not so. The handiest ones will let you print several documents or files or spreadsheets, whatever, to the same PDF file by appending each one as you print it to the main PDF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 What one will do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Simon Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 Word 2010 has that capability. The more I use Word 2010, the more I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted November 11, 2010 Report Share Posted November 11, 2010 Cool, I just installed the 2010 suite yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Actually, the term is "concatenate", or "catenate". Either is correct. So, Word 2010 has a printer feature that allows printing in things other than Word? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Simon Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Actually, the term is "concatenate", or "catenate". Either is correct. So, Word 2010 has a printer feature that allows printing in things other than Word? Here are the save options... Click to Enlarge 122.4 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 I'm using the 2007 suite from MS and can save as or publish as a PDF as well. Works well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 That looks like it will only print in Word docs. .pdfFactory will let me print in Word, then go to a webpage and print that, then pull up a .jpg and print that, take a screen shot and print that, etc., etc...... IOW, it'll turn everything into a concatenated .pdf document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 I have used the free Cute for about 2 years with no problems. To combine 2 different .pdf's into one doc I have been using the free http://www.mergepdf.net/ ,again with no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croline Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 I have downloaded a program called Advanced Word to PDF5.0. It's free. It is very good at preserving the formatting. It also allow us to convert a lot files at the same time. You can download it from: http://www.advancedpdfconverter.com/pro ... topdf.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Might want to check the dictionary definition of append, Kurt. It's just as applicable as your fancy words. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted November 12, 2010 Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Subtle differences for folks that like words........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted November 13, 2010 Report Share Posted November 13, 2010 Some days I just feel like being a smart ass so here's a couple of quotes from Mignon Fogarty for you, Kurt. (By the way, ellipses are THREE ellipsis points, not eleven and you left out the spaces.) "You should not allow the sweet lure of ellipses to muddle your ability to write a complete sentence." "The author of one of my favorite books, Punctuate it Right, feels this way about writers who use ellipses to imply that they have more to say: ââ¬ÅIt is doubtful that they have anything in mind, and the device seems a rather cheap one.â⬠Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randynavarro Posted November 13, 2010 Report Share Posted November 13, 2010 PDFill costs $19.95 but it lets me do just about anything I want with PDF's. It's worth $20 to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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