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ACROBAT WRITER
M HIGGS - 18/4/07 at 06:53 PM

Hi guys do any of you know a good site where i could download a free acrobat writer


Surrey Dave - 18/4/07 at 06:57 PM

Good little free reader much nippier than adobe


www.foxitsoftware.com

Foxit Reader is FREE dont know about writer.

[Edited on 18/4/07 by Surrey Dave]


britishtrident - 18/4/07 at 07:03 PM

Google for Ghostscript & ghost view

PDF files are Postscript, the procedure is you create a non existant Postscript printer set to print to file (use a name like anything.ps)

Then open this file in Ghostview and print to Ghostscript to create the pdf file.


BenB - 18/4/07 at 07:21 PM

IIRC that works but the files are big- an Adobe PDF document can contain text and graphics stored seperately whereas the Ghostscript / Ghostview combo creates a picture out of the whole page..... Or at least that what seems to happen from my experiments before....


jos - 18/4/07 at 07:26 PM

pdf995 is a good one ive used in the past


britishtrident - 18/4/07 at 07:30 PM

Not really a PDF file is just a Postcript file in a sightly different format.


britishtrident - 18/4/07 at 07:39 PM

Another alternative to Ghostview which is supposed to be more usr friendly is pdfcreator

http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator


Also Open Office Writer will write PDF files and export other documant formats to PDF


just looked Abiword will do it also

[Edited on 18/4/07 by britishtrident]


RazMan - 18/4/07 at 09:49 PM

http://btjunkie.org/search?q=adobe+acrobat


givemethebighammer - 18/4/07 at 09:52 PM

cutepdf free writer works well

http://www.cutepdf.com/