PDF is a file format created by Adobe for exchanging documents. The good thing about PDF is that the files retain the formatting and fonts even when viewed on a system different than the one they’ve been created on. That is the reason, PDF has become the de-facto format for sharing documents over the Internet.
For a long time, however, the only way to create PDF files was to buy and install Adobe’s Acrobat suite. The Acrobat suite, while very functional and nice, costs money and is expensive.
Since, Adobe has made the PDF standard open, a lot of third party tools have come which claim to be able to create and manipulate PDF files. CutePDF is one such tool.
Operating systems like Linux and OS X already come with built in tools or virtual printers which can create PDF files but nothing like this comes budled with Windows. CutePDF was written to solve that very problem.
Download the freeware version of CutePDF writer and install it on your Windows system. CutePDF needs another tool called ps2pdf to work and the installer will download it automatically from the CutePDF website.
After the installation has completed, you will see a new printer named CutePDF Writer in the printers list.
To convert any document to PDF, just use this printer that you just created for printing the file, instead of your regular physical printer.
That was simple, wasn’t it ? What tools do you guys use for working with PDF files ?
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One Comment
CutePdf Writer is a nice PDF tool. I’ve been using it for a couple years. Another free program I really like is PDF Xchange Viewer.
http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer