Word-To-PDF Converter (What's Good?)

[TheUltimate]

I just discovered that PDF995 sucks! The pdf files that I created can be highlighted & copied, there's no security at all. On top of that it's hard to add hyperlinks.

What a dummy I am, I've been using it for over a year because it's free.

Any recommendations on which software is good yet not too expensive, hopefully easy to use! All I need is to be able to disable copy function, add hyperlinks easily, password-protect, etc.

Thanks.

 

[brianpaxton]

OpenOffice.org: Home works great for PDF creation with some protection.. And it's FREE!! although a big download..

You'll use the writer for PDF conversion, and it opens up ANY WORD DOC for easy conversion too..

 

[TheUltimate]

Thanks, I'm downloading it now.

 

[electrojham]

PDF Creator

PDF Creator is pretty sweet. You simply select it from your print menu. You can download it here:
SourceForge.net: PDFCreator

 

[Mike]

I second OpenOffice. It is by far the best office software package available. IMHO.

 

[catman]

I completely agree on OpenOffice. I have Word and prefer OpenOffice Writer as a word processor and the export to PDF couldn't be simpler.

 

[Fewleftstanding]

Check out PrimoPDF, I used to use PDFcreater but switched. I've heard OpenOffice is good too.

 

[Waterboi]

If you wanna keep links i would say openoffice

 

[zul200289]

yeah.. open office

 

[megrisoft]

openoffice seems to have the most number of votes I am going to try it now.

 

[Icecube]

another vote for openoffice here
I've been using it for 2-3 years and it rocks

 

[TheUltimate]

PDF Primo's my choice! Thanks guys.

But I still need PDF Edit 995 to add hyperlinks.

 

[LazyHippy]

OpenOffice is great! (Didn't realise it could do pdfs.. makes it even better!)

Would never go back to M$

 

[soj]

for online word2pdf conversion checkout Create PDF Online free, PDF API, PDF .NET Server, VB, ASP, Consulting, takes a few minutes and they mail it to you, i use it all the time for uni assignments

 

[battman323]

wtf?

takes a few minutes? who the hell has time to waste?

open office baby

 

[zayroy]

I agree.. openoffice is fantastic