Best free .doc/.docx to .pdf converter?

[cawblen]

As the title says, your recommendations?
Thanks in advance!

[iHap]

http://OpenOffice.org

File > Export as PDF...

[Doctor Setebos]

Also: http://docs.google.com

[RandoM51]

Yes, just install OO and be done with it. :)

[Scull]

If OpenOffice isn't what you need or want, try CutePDF, which works wonderfully, and is free.

[cawblen]

Yes, just install OO and be done with it. :)

Thanks. Any other recommendations besides the love for OO?

[Troggles]

Thanks. Any other recommendations besides the love for OO?

Here's a recommendation: OpenOffice.


Shit.

[cawblen]

If OpenOffice isn't what you need or want, try CutePDF, which works wonderfully, and is free.

Thanks for the recommendation. What's so good about CutePDF, if you don't mind me asking?

[Scull]

Thanks for the recommendation. What's so good about CutePDF, if you don't mind me asking?
It is drop dead simple to install and use. All it does is setup a virtual printer that generates PDF files. If you can print it, you can turn it into a PDF, and it works from any application, not just Word or other Offices apps. I make PDF files of maps done in Campaign Cartographer, I make PDFs out of images and Excel and PowerPoint, and so on. There is minimal control over the output, but generally it does a great job of optimizing the files.

[Mot Wakorb]

PDFCreator on Sourceforge is good. If you're running Office 2007 with Service Pack 2 however, you can save as a PDF without needing another application. If you're working in .docx, you're probably running 2007, so just update to Office 2007 SP2 and you should be fine.

[civil]

Better than any of those, IMHO, is PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/). It gives a smaller PDF file than either Cute or OO. And IIRC, Cute gives you nag screens/reminders.

OO sucks ass, anyway. Free or not, it blows donkey dicks!


EDIT: Dammit, I'll never be as fast as a Wakorb! :( At least I provided a link!

Oh, and the Office Save As feature will give you a much larger PDF than PDFCreator.

[iHap]

OO sucks ass, anyway. Free or not, it blows donkey dicks!

No. You are wrong again my dear Watson.

[civil]

No. You are wrong again my dear Watson.
:: looks at User Title ::

Sure, man. Whatever. I won't be going to you for letters of recommendation.

[Scull]

Better than any of those, IMHO, is PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/). It gives a smaller PDF file than either Cute or OO. And IIRC, Cute gives you nag screens/reminders.

OO sucks ass, anyway. Free or not, it blows donkey dicks!


EDIT: Dammit, I'll never be as fast as a Wakorb! :( At least I provided a link!

Oh, and the Office Save As feature will give you a much larger PDF than PDFCreator.
I've never had a nag screen with CutePDF.

[nabokovfan87]

Turn on your ad blockers: http://media-convert.com/

That will do any media to anything.

[civil]

I've never had a nag screen with CutePDF.
Then I did not recall correctly, or it has changed in the years since I've used it.

Corrected.

[iHap]

:: looks at User Title ::

Sure, man. Whatever. I won't be going to you for letters of recommendation.
Worst comeback ever. I expected better from you.

Stay classy tho, you are now on my ignore list.

Bye.

[civil]

Stay classy tho, you are now on my ignore list.
Woo hoo! Ignored by a hat!

[cawblen]

Thanks for all the help, folks.

Edit: i'll try all the options provided and see which one i prefer (i'm sticking with MS Office though).

[Mot Wakorb]

Thanks for all the help, folks.

Edit: i'll try all the options provided and see which one i prefer (i'm sticking with MS Office though).

What version of office are you running?

[Karak]

Better than any of those, IMHO, is PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/). It gives a smaller PDF file than either Cute or OO. And IIRC, Cute gives you nag screens/reminders.

OO sucks ass, anyway. Free or not, it blows donkey dicks!


EDIT: Dammit, I'll never be as fast as a Wakorb! :( At least I provided a link!

Oh, and the Office Save As feature will give you a much larger PDF than PDFCreator.

Totally agreed.
I have spent fucking countless hours fixing shit due to OO. I used to love it but now I won't even touch it.

[pomeroy]

Worst comeback ever. I expected better from you.

Stay classy tho, you are now on my ignore list.

Bye.

Thin-skinned much? Wow.

[iHap]

Thin-skinned much? Wow.
No, civil has always been on my nerves. Everytime i read something he wrote on this forum it makes me shake my head and sigh.

I am usually the one to actually not let shit go but I am smarter than to deal with the guy.

[J Arcane]

Sadly, in my time in college so far, I'm growing to agree with Civil somewhat.

OO's not bad for a free program, but mostly it blows. I fight with it constantly, with it's obnoxious tendency to hide the things I need it to do in the last place I would look, to try and be clever and guess what I'm doing and be wrong every time, and it's godfuckingawful autocomplete features, all of which can die in a fire.

Making a simple fucking table should not take 20 goddamn minutes, but it does, because nothing that OpenOffice does makes the slightest bit of sense.

If I could afford MS Office, I would switch pretty quickly.

[muddi900]

Bullzip PDF printer. Just press CTRL+P and be done with it. Its kinda like CutePDF, but better.

Now, let the ecock fight continue.

[civil]

OT: Wasn't there a script where you could see how many people were blocking you? iHap, I'm glad I can give your neck some exercise, and I wish Olde Wolf were here to see your public denouncement of me. He'd love it. He's quite certain many people around here need a manly slap. Maybe you could form a "No civil" club.

Semi-OT: Yeah, the idea of OO is great but I have always felt more impeded by it than helped. We tried it at work for almost two years before finally giving up. It was counter-intuitive in so many ways. But as I said, the idea of it is good.


EDIT: muddi, this was never about penis size. Or was it? Remember, the power of the swing not the size of the bat!

[muddi900]

Everything we do is about our dicks!

[Mot Wakorb]

If I could afford MS Office, I would switch pretty quickly.

Check this out perhaps?

http://www.microsoft.com/student/office/en-us/default.aspx

Only $80 - pretty good deal if you ask me.

[Doctor Setebos]

OT: Wasn't there a script where you could see how many people were blocking you?If I remember correctly, Nick built that over at EvAv. Might want to ask him how hard it would be to port the code over here.