C. Philip Cutler II wrote:
> Okay i'm still confused though, PDF's have nothing what so ever to do with
> any Micorosft product (directly). Yes i know you install distiller/writer
> and then print to it in Any program including MS ones.
>
> Mostly to create PDF's you have to have Acrobat Writer/distiller in. and
> that costs no matter what OS it is for.?
No. MacOS X and OpenOffice.Org 1.1 and greater have the ability to
write PDFs themselves, without the need for any Adobe application.
Adobe does not have a lock on creating PDFs. Nor reading them. There
are also numerous ways to create PDFs on UNIX/LINUX/BSD systems, who
tend to use PostScript as their preferred format (just run a converter).
Some of those have been ported to Windows as well (GhostWriter),
allowing any Windows app to cut a PDF for free if you're willing to go
through setting it all up.
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