Best Free PDF Utility for Windows ... Again?

[Dan Goldstein]

Hi Lou,

If it were me, I'd try the demos at www.pdf-file.com. And please let us
know if they work -- the full purchase price is pretty cheap...

-- Dan Goldstein 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lou Quillio
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:28 PM
> To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: Best Free PDF Utility for Windows ... Again?
> 
> I don't usually mess with Windows, but sometimes I have to.
> 
> Right now I'm dumping out a Word doc to PDF using the utility I
> found already installed, RoboPDF.
> 
> Nice job, bookmarks, thumbnails, all that.  But it's not handling
> _some_ text in _some_ embedded Visio objects in this inherited doc.
>  Black background on the text, like MI6 redacted it.
> 
> So, you know, we've seen this before.  Off I go to find other MS
> Office-aware PDF utils and, sure enough, some of them don't have
> this issue and others do.
> 
> Save me some time.  What's the best, free, Office-aware PDF
> conversion utility for Windows these days?  Preferably one that
> isn't up-selling to "Pro", etc.  Free as in beer *and* speech.
> 
> (Somebody made a sound recommendation here recently, but I can't
> locate it now.  "PDF" is took common a term here.)
> 

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