Converting Word to PDF on the Cheap
10 February, 12:20 PM
I maintain the website for my daughter’s preschool, and from time to time I get a Word document that they want posted as a PDF. One of these days I’ll purchase a conversion program, but I needed to do a quick conversion of a couple small documents and in any case I’d rather use someone’s demo-ware than buy something not knowing whether it really worked. I tried a few services:
- PDF Online accepts a Word doc upload and emails you the results. Unfortunately, I never got the email, even after retrying.
- Doc2PDF did the job for free but completely messed up the fonts on one doc – the text was there but it was difficult to read.
- PDF Converter – Ended up doing the job the best. As a free service, it has certain limitations. You’re limited to small documents (no problem in this case), and you’re limited to one conversion every 30 minutes. The pay service is online-only, and membership-based, which is unfortunate – I don’t need to do these conversions all that often and a monthly service doesn’t make sense. That said, I was impressed and if I did need to do Doc => PDF conversions routinely, I would definitely consider them.
— Gordon Weakliem
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Assuming you don’t actually need to do an online conversion – That you have the software for the source document on a Windows PC, then CutePDF Writer should meet your needs just fine. It is completely Free, and has worked great for me.
CutePDF Writer : http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp
— Kevin H · 10 February 2010, 15:39 · #