Best non Adobe PDF creator/editor?

12 public posts in this discussion.

Post 1

As per the title I need some suggestions.

Need to get a legit piece of software in our office. Would Foxit be the one? Talking about 20-25 users.

Main use will be to print directly any Office documents as PDF's including CAD files, so it needs to show up as a printer. We also collate individual PDF's a lot. I like the function in Acrobat Pro that allows you to drag and drop one PDF into another.

Post 2

just use cutepdf with word
CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Free PDF Utilities, Save PDF Forms, Edit PDF easily.

they have a paid version as well that lets you combine them i believe

Post 3

Bullzip has a free pdf printer as well.

Post 4

we use PDFCreator | Download PDFCreator software for free at SourceForge.net just get a silent installer with the toolbar options disabled.

Post 5

nitro pdf is good

Post 6

I second CutePDF Writer. It just sets itself up as a printer so you can print to PDF from any program.

Post 8

I'll watch this with interest as well.
Since Office 2007 (and now 2010) being able to save Office files directly as PDFs has meant that they didn't bother updating the Acrobat Pro versions at work, so no more ability to merge PDFs for me.

Post 9

We are going to trial CutePDF, make a decision in a week or two.

Post 10

you wont uninstall it :)

Post 11

We used it at the Dell stand to save peoples orders. It never ever failed.

I'd be interested to see how it handles the postscript in the CAD files though. Obviously I've never used it for that.

Post 12

Cute PDF and Nitro FTW!!

Cute PDF to generate PDFs
-Have never had problems with formatting and layout

Nitro to edit the pages if you need to change the order and play around with stuff
- NItro has problems with some Powerpoint and Excel documents in formatting
- It edits the fine once they are in PDF