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Firlefanz
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  		   Posted 3/27/2008 8:07 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Open Office has a button to create PDFs straight from a normal file. Works like a treat.

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Google PDFCeator. It is an open source program that has worked well for me in the past. Don't think it can add much features like bookmarks and such to it, but it prints right from your word processor or any windows program and will create a readable PDF. It can even merge multiple files into one document. Good for creating a basic pdf file of your work.

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  		   Posted 3/24/2008 12:23 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
well, for 1) it doesn't matter what you use to create the .pdf with, as long as acrobat reader can open it

for 2) you best talk to the publisher before you create that pdf and find out what they want and if they make them, themselves.

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  		   Posted 3/24/2008 11:16 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hmmm...I'll just worry about the first chunk of this question, tabling DRM and encryption and all that for now.

What to do with the PDF after its created? Well, I suppose:

1.) Make it available to people so that they can receive it via email or direct download and read it. A Table of Contents, bookmarks and embedded hyperlinks would all be a plus. Discouraging text selection and copy/paste would be a plus.

2.) Send it to a publisher so they can print it.

Basically I'm interested in the read-only aspects of PDF. I've heard of features that provide for document collaboration, editing, etc. but that's outside of my scope, for now.

I saw that SourceForge has PDFCreator, has anybody tried that one?

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  		   Posted 3/23/2008 7:53 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
depends on what you plan to do with them after they're created.

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  		   Posted 3/23/2008 7:48 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
So I hear there's free/cheap software around these days to do this.
 
Can anybody recommend something?
 
What about encrypting PDFs, preventing them from being copied more than X times, read on multiple computers, etc? Has anybody done much investigation in that area?
 
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