Have you checked the price of Adobe Acrobat lately? Well, not even just lately… Acrobat has always been pricey (not the Reader, which is free, but the full Acrobat package). Although not out of reach or even unreasonable for serious professional use, it’s definitely not inexpensive.
If you can’t afford it (or just don’t want to), I recommend you check this out. Heck, even if you already have purchased Acrobat, take a look at this anyway… it may just do everything you need. If it does, then you’ve just saved yourself from the $100 or so annual Acrobat upgrade expenditure.
Simply put, I think PrimoPDF is the best free alternative PDF creator out there. And a surprisingly powerful one. For our wordpreneurial purposes, no doubt about it, you can use this for pumping out those infoproducts.
And using it is dirt simple: After installation, simply select “PrimoPDF” as the printer to print to from just about any Windows app you happen to be using (like MS Word). Out pops your PDF. That’s really all there is to the basics of creating PDFs with PrimoPDF.
There are more features and advanced options, but really, I don’t think you’ll have any problem figuring it all out. And quickly. Let me know what you think. — EES
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January 11th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thanks for the heads-up on this, Eldon. As fate would have it, I have the need for this very thing.
As usual, it’s Wordpreneur on the spot!
Over and out,
Michael Werner
January 11th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Just a qauick note to thank you for including my Writers’ Digest 101 Best Website award-winning blog on your blog roll. Love Sharing with Writers!
Best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Author of the multi-award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers
http://www.howtodoitfrugally.com
Blogging at Writer’s Diges Top 101 Websites http://www.sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com
January 12th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Michael - So what do you think of Primo?
Carolyn - You’re welcome! Won one of those WD 101 best website thingies too a few years back. Completely forgot all about it until you reminded me.
January 13th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
All right, E-Man, you know me… if it ain’t dirt simple, I’m likely not going to fool with it. Primo was SOOOOOOOO simple I thought I was doing something wrong.
Great find, and… thanks!
Michael
January 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Now that’s a Primo testimonial.