TIP: Creating PDFs for free.

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Another warrior posted a nugget in the war room about a freely available program suite that I think everyone should be aware of.

As you know, most ebooks and programs delivered today contain the content in a PDF. This stands for Portable Document Format, and many people have purchased add-ons applications or printer substitutes for their computers that a
llow them to create documents in PDF format. Fear not, fellow warriors, there is a free piece of software that can do this for you.

This will be also great for those of you on the PC platform that don't particularly like Microsoft...

The software is called Open Office Writer, which is part of the open office suite:

download: OpenOffice.org Downloads

You can download the entire Open Office suite from there, (It's in the green area near the top of the page) and installing is very simple.

It also gives you several benefits, beyond just creating PDFs.

* Open Office Writer includes a built in PDF producer
* Open Office Writer can be used to write very professional looking documents
* And... Open Office Writer can also load documents produced by Microsoft Word.
* So no matter what you use to write the document -- Open Office or Microsoft Office -- you can use Open Office Writer to produce a PDF quickly and accurately!

If you choose to not purchase Microsoft Office, you can save documents in Microsoft Office format, so the files are interchangeable with anyone using Microsoft Office.

On a PC, installation is pretty simple.

Once you have the program installed, creating a PDF is really easy.

Go to your start menu, select Open Office, and start Open Office Writer. Then load the document (a .DOC file if you wrote it with Microsoft Office). Then click File->Output As PDF.

THATS IT.

Simple as simple can be.

You will probably find the other programs in the Open Office suite useful as well. There are functions for most of what you need to do from a business standpoint.
Writer is a document editor with features like MS Word.
Calc is a spreadsheet application
Impress lets you make presentation documents (like MS Powerpoint)
Draw is a drawiing program
Base provides database functions (similar to Access).

All in all, well worth the download, even if you never use it for more than creating PDF files.
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidMarsigne
    Thanks for this useful tip.
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  • Hi Everyone.
    This is the first time i have been here so I'm not sure of what I'm doing but I just read the posts about PDF writers and I have tried a few of them. They do work well aqnd get the job done but I find that CutePDF writer is faster and easier to use.

    You just write your document using any woer processor and when finished click on the print button. A print menu opens and then click on CutePDF writer and print. In just seconds you have a complete PDF ready to send to a viewer.
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    • Profile picture of the author chaos33
      an important warning for everyone...

      Make sure your embedded links are working when you convert from word to pdf. Most free pdf converters do not allow embedded links and you end up creating a pdf document with links that don't work...which of course has no value for an internet marketer.

      I learned it the hard way after my free report went viral.. until I found out the links are there but are not clickable

      Hope this helps.
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      • Profile picture of the author Wealthyclark
        I love and use open office on a daily basis, it's a great tool and you can never best the price. It's free!
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Ogbin
          OpenOffice is the most program that compete Office (Microsoft Office) so hardly, because the openOffice has a lot of functions similar to Microsoft Office and sometimes has some tools that are not in the Microsoft software itself.

          These softwares such as OpenOffice, are able for forcing Microsoft to sell their products cheaply in someways.
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  • Profile picture of the author craig j
    Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

    I use PDFCreator. It will even allow you to run a job for say 100 "prints" in a batch and then merge them all together into one giant pdf.

    Only thing is that it installs a toolbar so you need to remove it afterwards.
    If I remember correctly I'm pretty sure PDF Creator gives you the option of installing the toolbar or not during the installation process. It think it's just a matter of unchecking the box.

    That said, I've used both Open Office and PDF Creator for years and they are both excellent pieces of software.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ivelin2008
    I just use Microsoft Word and save it as a .PDF In version 2007 and higher you can do that..
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