{"id":128,"date":"2010-04-22T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-09-24T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T19:10:28","slug":"free-pdf-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/free-pdf-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE PDF CREATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adobe Acrobat files, or PDF’s as the are commonly called (p<\/span>ortable d<\/span>ocument f<\/span>ormat), are a great way to distribute documents that you don’t want people to edit.\u00a0 They are also good because anyone can view them with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader program.\u00a0 But Adobe’s software for creating PDF’s costs several hundred dollars.\u00a0 For many people, the advanced features in those programs justify the cost. But if you don’t need all of those features, there are several free programs that will let you create high quality PDFs easily.\u00a0 And they work with almost every Windows program because when you install them, they set up a printer driver.\u00a0 When you print to that “printer”, your print job get converted to a PDF instead of going to a physical printer.\u00a0 The software will ask you what you want to name the file and where you want to save it.<\/p>\n

For several years I have used PDF ReDirect<\/a>.\u00a0 I think it offers a good balance between features and ease of use.\u00a0 It produces smaller files than some of the others that I have tried.\u00a0 And you can merge multiple files into one.\u00a0 You can download it at www.exp-systems.com<\/a>.\u00a0 In case you were wondering how they can offer it for free, they also offer a paid version with more features.<\/p>\n

If you want a PDF writer that is extremely simple to use, you might consider CutePDF Writer<\/a>.\u00a0 If you like open source software you could try PDFCreator<\/a>.\u00a0 Or you can go to www.download.com<\/a>\u00a0 and search for “free pdf writer” for a long list of alternatives.\u00a0 I hope you can find one that works well for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One nice feature in Peachtree is the ability to save reports as a PDF. Now you can add the same ability to almost any program for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iqaccountingsolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}