PDF and Alternatives to Acrobat {WAS Re: Where on Adobe is the info/link to renew my maintenance contract for FrameMaker?]

[Shmuel Wolfson]

I apologize if this is off topic, but here is a list of Acrobat 
alternatives. (Please feel free to send me corrections or updates.)

Free:

- A free plug-in is available for Word 2007; comes with 2010

- Bullzip PDF Printer

- PDF995

- PrimoPDF

- CutePDF
   www.acrosoftware.com/Products/CutePDF/Printer.asp

- Create PS file using any PS printer, then use GSview to convert to
   PDF (GSview requires GhostScript, also free)

Not Free (prices are as of Sep 27, 2012):

- PDF Fusion ($49.99)
   www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4100140
   Creates bookmarks and links from Word.

- Nitro Pro ($119.99)
   www.nitropdf.com
   Creates bookmarks and links from Word.

- Nuance PDF Converter Pro ($99.99)

- Jaws PDF Creator ($64)
   www.jawspdf.com/products.html
   Creates bookmarks and links from Word, but does not support
   Windows 7; probably not Windows 8 either.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133

On 04-Apr-13 5:04 PM, Stuart Rogers wrote:
> On 2013-Apr-03 11:44 AM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>> I virtually never edit the PDFs I generate myself, but I sometimes
>> use Acrobat to extract and combine pages from various PDFs,
>> consolidate comments from multiple copies of a PDF, and OCR scanned
>> documents.
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>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
>> (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
>>> But, I also do not do much editing of the PDF output. I use that
>>> file as the way to distribute review copies pretty regularly when
>>> working on a document, and having to edit it each time to fix
>>> things would be time-consuming. For the final release, about all I
>>> do to the PDF is add certain meta-data properties.
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