Adobe has some expensive software tools for creating PDF files, but open source fans need not despair, there's an easy was to create PDF files using the tools that ship with most flavors of Linux.

Adobe created the PDF format and, therefore, has a large share of the market when it comes to software that creates portable documents. Many businesses use Adobe Acrobat to create PDFs. However, ...

Portable Document Format (PDF) is considered one of the most reliable formats for communication because of its immense security. While Adobe has always provided free Acrobat Reader for opening and ...

A few years ago you wrote about GhostScript-based PDF creation tools – we haven’t been successful with this and wonder if there’s an update or another open source option for creating PDF files on ...

In the PDF-XChange Pro 2012 bundle, you get a complete PDF reader, writer, and editor. Tracker’s PDF-XChange Pro 2012 ($74) bundles a number of PDF-XChange apps that together attempt to create a suite ...

Since it is installed as a so-called virtual printer driver, it is free software that allows you to create PDF files from software that can execute any "print" command. It is a point that it does not ...

The main advantage of creating and sending PDFs is that you can control exactly how the document will look at the other end and can show the contents of a file even if your recepient doesn’t have your ...

Most of us take PDF files for granted. Years ago, Adobe created a universal file format with their Acrobat software that produced documents which could be opened on PCs, Mac and Unix/Linux computers.