pdf files

[Tom England]

Not specifically FM related but a while ago I remember someone posting a website that would convert a word doc to a pdf file (without downloading any software). I used it at the time and worked a treat. Have searched but can't find the website address anywhere on FM Forums - I suspect it was within Outputting issues somewhere. Can anyone help?

[StevenB]

Hi Tom,

Here is a site that will convert your doc to pdf. It is free - but it places ads in the file.

http://www.fastpdf.com/

And here is another site that will convert it to pdf or html.

http://www.gohtm.com/

HTH

[danjacoby]

Converting (or "printing") to a .pdf file is what the Adobe Acrobat printer driver does. It's supposed to be available only when you purchase Acrobat. Anything else that purports to do this for free is suspect -- and probably illegal.

[AndriesV]

Try http://www.ps2pdf.com/ On their website to they point to their freely available AFPL Ghostscript Software, it does the trick in our situation.

It may not have all the features and options of the official Adobe solution like e.g. protected pdf files. Some fancy colored pictures don't always get converted nicely, but our (black) logo's and formatted texts end up perfectly in pdf. For us there is no vissible diffence between a direct Filemaker print to paper or the printed pdf file.

[douglasgifford]

If you are lucky/clever enough to be using Mac OS X, you can output pdfs from any application that prints by choosing Output Options; Save as File in the print dialog box.

It won't let you create input forms or do anything else fancy, but if you want a file that looks right on any machine, there it is.