[geeks] PDF creation

[nate at portents.com]

> Anyone here have any experience with PDF creation software for windows
> other than Adobe Acrobat?  It looks like there are at least two
> different projects called "PDFCreator"
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ and
> http://www-pdfcreator.com/).  Does anyone know how well these work, and
> if their output is comparable to Adobe Acrobat?

No idea what that www-pdfcreator.com site is, looks sketchy.  Obviously
the sourceforge project is open source, and I've used it, has a pretty
broad range of options (and you can actually output print jobs in about a
dozen more formats, not just PDF), and can also be set up in server mode,
can run scripts or shell commands to post-process things, etc.  Seems very
flexible.  Don't remember anything related to being able to make PDF
forms, but I don't care about that and have never had a need (and frankly
kind of hate PDF forms anyway).

There's other free PDF creation software for Windows as well, PrimoPDF:

http://www.primopdf.com/primopdf_free_idx.aspx

and Cute PDF Writer:

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

I don't recall them having as many options.

Also, if you're in need of PDF splitting or merging software, I recently
came across this open source project:

http://www.pdfsam.org/

- Nate