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Submitted by souri on

Does anyone know any good (preferably free) applications that create/edit PDF files? I'm totally clueless about PDF, and I've only just googled a bit about the format, but I don't know what the most popular/easiest package is for doing PDF stuff. I know you can export in Photosop to PDF, but I don't seem to be able to have seperate pages in the exported PDF and Photoshop gets a bit silly when you have a 10,000 pixel long picture to work with.. I spent 5 hours on "The Guide", but when I opened the darn thing up the next day, it aparently didn't save anything from when I changed the screen size to that length..

"The Guide" will be a quartely updated Sumea project, with listings and info on developers, developer services, game dev schools, portfolio advice and other stuff on the industry that is already on the site but as a downloadble pdf file.

Submitted by arcane on Tue, 03/08/04 - 4:13 AMPermalink

I generally use Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) for creating PDFs, but unfortunately it's not free.

Submitted by Daemin on Tue, 03/08/04 - 11:54 PMPermalink

There are plenty of websites that will create PDFs for free, but you can also get ghostscript and some other GNU programs that do the same things. Or the other option is to use Mac OS X as the printing services there allow you to print to PDF.

Submitted by awf on Tue, 03/08/04 - 11:58 PMPermalink

OpenOffice can export to pdf

Posted by souri on

Does anyone know any good (preferably free) applications that create/edit PDF files? I'm totally clueless about PDF, and I've only just googled a bit about the format, but I don't know what the most popular/easiest package is for doing PDF stuff. I know you can export in Photosop to PDF, but I don't seem to be able to have seperate pages in the exported PDF and Photoshop gets a bit silly when you have a 10,000 pixel long picture to work with.. I spent 5 hours on "The Guide", but when I opened the darn thing up the next day, it aparently didn't save anything from when I changed the screen size to that length..

"The Guide" will be a quartely updated Sumea project, with listings and info on developers, developer services, game dev schools, portfolio advice and other stuff on the industry that is already on the site but as a downloadble pdf file.


Submitted by arcane on Tue, 03/08/04 - 4:13 AMPermalink

I generally use Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) for creating PDFs, but unfortunately it's not free.

Submitted by Daemin on Tue, 03/08/04 - 11:54 PMPermalink

There are plenty of websites that will create PDFs for free, but you can also get ghostscript and some other GNU programs that do the same things. Or the other option is to use Mac OS X as the printing services there allow you to print to PDF.

Submitted by awf on Tue, 03/08/04 - 11:58 PMPermalink

OpenOffice can export to pdf