Best Free PDF Utility for Windows ... Again?

[Pinkham, Jim]

Hi, Lou --

I've been pleased with CutePDF,
www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp, but there are plenty of
options out there
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+PDF+converter). 

I've tried PDF 995, and it's respectable, but I personally felt the
advertising side to it was rather annoying. If you need to do fancier
tasks (such as split or combine PDFs, there are utilities for that, too
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=
1&q=free+combine+pdf&spell=1). Beware the "free download" vs. actually
free stuff. 

CutePDF has an add-in that will do these functions, too, but it couldn't
get past my AVG virus screen when I tried it at home. I found a tool
that did the job from DOS (a bit geeky, but functional), but
unfortunately, I don't recall the name and don't have it here at the
office. If you're interested, let me know, and I'll hunt it down.

Jim

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From: techwr-l-bounces+jim.pinkham=voith.com at lists.techwr-l.com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+jim.pinkham=voith.com at lists.techwr-l.com] On
Behalf Of Lou Quillio
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:28 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.)

LQ
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