Open source PDF 'printer'/distiller

[JHZR2]

Hi,

Are there any open source equivalents of the acrobat distiller for either windows or mac???

Thanks!

JMH

 

[simple_gifts]

Any chance you want to do with with a Word/Excel/PP file?

Openoffice can output PDF's.

Or look for PDF "pseudo printers" like

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

 

[JHZR2]

see, that one Ineed tohave thewhole ghostscript thing.

For real documents, late converted to pdf seems to be the way to go, as you can get all themathematical symbols and whatnot real easy.

For large documents, word doesnt always size up well, and it is often unstable to transfer around, because formatting, etc goes awry.

Adobe PDF distiller (r acrobat professional as thesoftware is called) is quite good...

I prefer MS office over staroffice or openoffice, personally, but given the ability to output PDF, I might have to check it out again, it might be the right solution for me.

Thanks!

JMH

 

[eljefino]

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ works nicely for me.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

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[ScottB]

You don't need anything for the Mac - it's native file format is PDF.

Scott

 

[simple_gifts]

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it's native file format is PDF

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Scott, what does that mean? All Mac apps can output as PDF or the OS can display it by default?

 

[T-Keith]

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Originally posted by eljefino:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ works nicely for me.

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ditto, we use it at work, it's great.

 

[ScottB]

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Originally posted by simple_gifts:

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it's native file format is PDF

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Scott, what does that mean? All Mac apps can output as PDF or the OS can display it by default?

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Any app in OS X can print to PDF. It's hugely great.

Scott