{"id":27,"date":"2003-10-03T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T09:05:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-03T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-03T09:05:56","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Easy way to make your own PDF documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered a surprisingly useful bit of software yesterday, namely <a href=\"http:\/\/sector7g.wurzel6.de\/pdfcreator\/index_en.htm\">PDF-Creator<\/a>.  It provides an easy (and completely free) way for Windows users to make PDFs, without having to buy something expensive like the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/\">Adobe<\/a> suite.<\/p>\n<p>PDF-Creator installs itself as a &#8216;printer&#8217; on your system, so you can create PDF documents from any application that can print, e.g. Microsoft Word, your web browser etc.  Apart from anything else, this will result in a &#8216;safer&#8217; document than a Word document, because all the hidden meta-data (see <a href=\"articles.html\">Why Microsoft Word may be bad for your health<\/a>) will not be present in a PDF.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen similar things in the past, but this one actually works.<\/p>\n<p>Also, on the same theme, I note that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/dev_docs\/features\/1.1\/index.html\">new release of OpenOffice<\/a> has a handy &#8216;export to PDF&#8217; feature built-in.  Haven&#8217;t tried that myself, but that sounds pretty useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered a surprisingly useful bit of software yesterday, namely PDF-Creator. It provides an easy (and completely free) way for Windows users to make PDFs, without having to buy something expensive like the full Adobe suite. PDF-Creator installs itself as a &#8216;printer&#8217; on your system, so you can create PDF documents from any application that can&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=27\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}