Anyone know a free easy PDF creator/converter? I'm using windows XP.

http://www.freepdfconvert.com/

Can't vouch for the one above but have used a couple of freebies in the past – forgotten their names – but they leave watermarks or are fairly clunky.

Have used Nitro PDF which is good, but you need a fair amount of horsepower to run it smoothly. And it costs a few quid.

cutepdf – simple, slick, no water marks.

I use http://www.cutepdf.com/

The in-build one in Open Office works a treat for me.

As above – cutepdf – it's even free for commercial use.

Primopdf

another vote for cute pdf for simple stuff.

The in-build one in Open Office works a treat for me.

The in-build one in MS Office 2007 works a treat for me. 😛

thanks people I shall look at cute PDF.

Just a quick update cute PDF whilst quite quick shrunk my document so all the text was there but instead of being a full page was two thirds yet still in proportion. Uplinks link was alot slower but did the same job as acrobat would.

Primo is a nice and easy converter. It has a better viewer than Adobe, too.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

The appropiately named PDF creator – open source, no advert crap.

i use PrimoPDF It is very simple to use, it just prints to a PDF file, so you can print from any prigram 🙂

We use FinePrint PDF Factory, cos it just works so bloody well.

Primo PDF

+1

have you checked the output settings in CutePDF? I've never come across what you've got there, having outputted from all sorts of progs!

I use PrimoPDF at work and CutePDF at home… no noticeable difference really!

We use CutePDF at work, dead simple and free. 🙂