Create PDF’s for Free (Windows)
Ever since leaving college I have had to create PDF’s on almost a daily basis. The companies I have previously worked for always used a copy of Adobe Acrobat to accomplish this. Acrobat is a great program but once I left the corporate world and started my own business I have always looked for ways to cut costs and finding an alternative to the $299 Adobe Acrobat was an easy way to slash expenses.
A simple google search for “free pdf creator” will pull up a large amount of products that claim to produce pdf’s for free. Most of these products will do just that but some will embed a logo, work very slowly, or eat up enough computer resources to compute a mission to Mars.
I use MS office 2007. Yes, this alone could have been a cost cutting feature but I will save that for another day. Due to the fact that I use this fine microsoft product I am able to install an Add-in called “Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS”. This Add-in allows for me to convert virtually any document used in the MS suite to a pdf file. Once installed the option is found under the Save As menu and it quickly and easily produces a pdf file.
Find it for free here:
Thanks so much! I have been using my scanner software to make pdfs and it was not efficient at all, this is much easier.
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