Free PDF writer
 

Hi Guys, does anyone know of a free PDF writer that can do more than one page and DOESN'T have a watermark.

My grandad made a family history book with a lot of type written text, plus on the same pages would be newspaper clippings, birth cerificates, execution notices (just jokin') and photos. I'd planned to scan each page, I guess as a .jpg, and then add them one by one to a PDF writer. I've never actually done this so I'm guessing this is how it would be done.

I'd like to produce an electronic copy of my grandad's book so that all extended family members can have a copy on their PCs and would be able to click through the pages. So any better ideas are much appreciated :)

OpenOffice.org

Open Office will output anything as a PDF. It's free, you could scan it, use OCR software to load it in, then you could adjust the spelling or whatever, clean up images, etc just like any Word document.

Cutepdf will print stuff out without a watermark. I have used it on several PCs over the years with no problem. it's free too.

Try cutepdf.com.

Thanks guys. Neil I tried Cutepdf but it would only do one page of a jpg. meaning as I print to the pdf it converts the .jpg to .pdf I was wanting to add pages to do the whole 100 or so pages. Am I doing something wrong?

Use Word or Powerpoint or something to put all the pictures in one document and then print to CutePDF and it should let you do a multi-page.

Would that work for you?

I put CutePDF on everything too, but the drawback of it is that it's just a printer emulator, not an actual app that would bind things together.

I've been using Open Office for sometime now. It's great.
I can take any of my text proposals/invoices, copy and paste them as a new text document in Open Office and export it as a PDF. Very cool.


KT

Umm, thanks guys. I think I need to put my thinking had on and get the whole thing, text and images on the same page, then the 100 or so pages into open office and output it as pdf. Or into word then output to cutepdf.

Primo will probably do it.

http://www.primopdf.com/

I've used PDF Creator on win boxes - it installs as a printer, works fine:

http://en.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDFCreator

Same here. I even rolled it out on our default system images at my last company.

I have 3 different programs (plus Openoffice) that can produce PDF files. I make a lot of PDF files for the business and Adobe 9 really works the best. I doubt you'll need the features I use.

DeskPDF is an inexpensive, functional PDF maker like CutePDF. Openoffice is probably the way for you. One of the companies I worked for used Cutepdf for most people.

At home I use doPDF as a print driver - works from essentially any program.

At work I have Acrobat Pro since we do a fair amount of stuff with it, like assembling proposals and so forth.

+1 on Primo PDF
works great for me