Many of my customers have a need for creating PDF documents.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of them don’t need anything fancy and are usually on a tight budget.\u00c2\u00a0 If they aren’t, I recommend purchasing Acrobat from Adobe.\u00c2\u00a0 That is Acrobat, not Acrobat Reader.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And of course, they have muddied the waters from there, there are three versions, Standard, Pro, and Pro Extended.<\/p>\n
How about a FREE solution though. Those solutions are my favorite.\u00c2\u00a0 If you don’t need any of the extra features, then PDFCreator may be the solution for you.\u00c2\u00a0 It is open source, so it is spyware free, but keep reading before installing.<\/p>\n
It can be downloaded at: http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pdfcreator\/<\/a><\/p>\n 1) Go to the link, click on the bar that says “Download PDFCreator” (currently it is a green button)<\/p>\n 2) On the next screen, click on the “Download” button on the same line as “PDFCreator” package.<\/p>\n 3) On the next screen, click on the “PDFCreator-X_X_X_setup.exe” link; note – the x’s represent numbers, example the current version is 0.9.5 so the file name would be \tPDFCreator-0_9_5_setup.exe.<\/p>\n 4) The file should be downloaded now.\u00c2\u00a0 Run the downloaded file<\/p>\n 5) Normally, the next few screens will act like this (the following is for version 0.9.5):<\/p>\n Click Next -> NOTE:<\/strong> The installation will automatically want to install a PDF toolbar.\u00c2\u00a0 I would opt out of this option. I don’t think extra toolbars do anything but slow down your system and web browsing.<\/p>\n The next screen will have you select the Components, uncheck PDF Creator Toolbar…<\/p>\n Click Next and continue following the directions on the screen.<\/p>\n It is installed, what now?<\/strong><\/p>\n So you have it installed, how do you use it, your ask? When PDFCreator was installed, it installed itself as a printer.\u00c2\u00a0 Anything you can print, you can create a PDF.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Open the program where your document is, Select your File menu, then Print, then look for a PDFCreator Printer.\u00c2\u00a0 When you print to a PDF, the printer will pop up and ask you to save the PDF to a location.\u00c2\u00a0 I recommend the Desktop<\/strong> or My Documents.<\/strong><\/p>\n That it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many of my customers have a need for creating PDF documents.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of them don’t need anything fancy and are usually on a tight budget.\u00c2\u00a0 If they aren’t, I recommend purchasing Acrobat from Adobe.\u00c2\u00a0 That is Acrobat, not Acrobat Reader.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading
\nAccept the agreement, Next ->
\nStandard Install -> Next
\nName for the printer -> Next
\nFolder location -> Next
\nPDF Creator Toolbar ->\u00c2\u00a0 STOP! Read the following note, then watch on the next screen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n