[LMB] OT: AKICOL PDF transformerbot

[Mark Allums]

Bill Johnson wrote:
> 
> <snip>
>> Kirsten, I'm an OpenOffice.org partisan; among its virtues is the "export
>> to PDF" button. Any time I want to make one, that's what I use. Compose
>> the document in OO, including any pictures, and export to PDF. I've no
>> idea whether or not Microsoft Office or WordPervect will do as much, I've
>> never used them.
>> <snip>
> 
> Ditto. In fact I have to regularly use OO to repair damaged Micro$oft files.
> Wordeperfect does do export to pdf, office (up to 2003) does not.
> 
> I do quite a few training documents for a living, I have (and can justify
> the cost of) Adobe Acrobat Pro. I use it -OFTEN-. That being said, Open
> office (http ://www.openoffice.org) is free, it include most everything you
> would need (Docs, spreadsheets, database, support, many plug-ins, google
> docs compatibility [with plug-in], PDF compatibility [native]) and is very
> very easy to use, even on limited resource computers. Big download though.
> 

Office 2007 can "print" to PDF with an add-on, but you may not want to 
commit to Microsoft Office for assorted reasons, some good, some silly.

OpenOffice.org is free, and reasonably open, and gets better all the 
time.  I recommend that whatever you use, that you still also have OOo 
as well, it comes in handy sometimes.

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Mark Allums