Best Free PDF Utility for Windows ... Again?

[Hankey, Brian]

I have used CutePDF as well.  The thing to remember is that there are
the two versions.  There is an older version that is free and then the
newest version that is not free :)  I had used RoboPDF before but it
could not work with any version of Reader newer than 5.0 (at least the
one that we were using here.  For that reason I went out and did the
searching just as is being done now  :)

Best Regards,
 
Brian Hankey
407-551-8391
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[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+brian.hankey=fnf.com at lists.techwr-l.com] On
Behalf Of Marc Bryant
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 6:32 AM
To: Lou Quillio; techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
Subject: Re: Best Free PDF Utility for Windows ... Again?

Although it is not free ($50), I've used CutePDF recently and it seems
to handle everything I throw at it, and it even seems as though it spits
out pdfs quicker than Acrobat. Graphics look fine, tables convert well,
etc.. I can't find anything wrong with it. 

----- Original Message ----
From: Lou Quillio <public at quillio.com>
To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 2:28:08 PM
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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