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Our billing company prefers the invoices printed in PDF format. We send them daily batches via secureFTP for them to process. There is a really good program that their IT person recommended that I will share here. This program creates PDF documents simply by choosing a printer in MSWindows print dialog. Very easy to use and it is free!

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

You will need to download both the GPL Ghostscript 8.15 (5.01MB), a convertor and the CutePDF free download (1.54MB)

I am curious, putting cost of Adobe Acrobat Standard or Pro versions aside, is this program better than Adobe? Or is cost savings its biggest attribute?

There is a similar program called Win2PDF that is also a printer driver converter which will transform documents to .PDF format.

I happened to need some pages converted to PDF tonight (at home, with a crummy scanner and no Adobe Acrobat), so I downloaded this program and tried it out.

It interfaces with your programs like it's another printer that you can select off the menu. There's no program to turn on. You just print your document and CutePDF is one of the printers you can select. You select it and hit print, and it asks where you want it, and that's all there is.

It was very simple! I liked it.

Cost savings are a big attribute to be sure. It lacks some functionality you would expect such as opening multiple files in a single session (I noticed this only after I edited a PDF document and deleted pages - it closed the original one I had open. but it does everything you need to separate out a single PDF into separate files, edit, rotate, etc. for price, I can live with shortcomings vs. full adobe acrobat version

I tried it and it was easy and I thought it was great. The pro version is only $50 and worth it to manipulate pdf files.

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Nice PDF program, I was needing one of those at work. Funny, where you find things at times...

The acrobat professional allow for document security and form generate functions that most people would not need for simple printing. CutePDF is a great program and I use it all the time.

Geoffrey Thomas, DO