Re: Producing Acrobat files; was: OpenOffice.org

["Carl Young" <pdftrainer -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Open Office also does PDF forms. See my recent blog posts:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/pdftrainer/

for some examples.
Carl Young

On 4/3/07, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Kevin McLaughlan explained:
>
>
> "...This meant they needed Acrobat, so they have one license.
> Sometimes the guy who "owns" that license is away, and it's a pain to
> have them send the doc back to me just to make a PDF. So I suggested
> that they install OpenOffice and use that. They're quite
> pleased."
>
> While I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org, you should be aware that
> there are numerous *free* methods of producing Acrobat files in
> addition to the capability in OpenOffice.
>
> To me, Adobe seems to have priced itself out of that market for any
> who don't need some of the advanced features not available elsewhere.
>
> On my personal machine, I have Ghostscript/GSView installed--giving me
> one Acrobat creation option. In case you are interested in a free
> solution, you might take a look at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostscript This article also includes a
> number of free solutions based upon the Ghostscript interpreter.
>
> David
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