disadvantages to free pdf creation software?

[Superior Content Creation]

Hey, can you guys tell me if there are any disadvantages to using free pdf creation software for ebooks you intend to market and sell? If there are no major reasons not to, can anyone make a reccommendation?

[greenovni]

What do you mean by a "free e-book creator"? The software to turn your document into a pdf file?

[Superior Content Creation]

Yes, exactly. lol I edited the original post for clarification...

[edman]

I haven't used ebook creators in some years now, however at the time, I did do a lot of research on free creators, but unfortunately there were too many limitations.

However ebook creators make exe files which limits the users to only windows users. Also I find ebooks created by these software a bit limted as they are not as comfortable to read lik the PDfs... The ones I like are those that compile html files, so the ebook actually acts like a browser for your ebook.

a cheap good one I used was eBOOK CREATOR...75% Off For a Limited Time Only!, by Jimmy D. Brown, however you may wantto askthem if they upgraded the software as all my ebooks that were compiled stopped working for newwer versions of windows without a windows fix kit, and this wasn't guaranteed too.

But if they did fix this, then I would reccommend this one anytime

[edman]

Originally Posted by dru-man

Yes, exactly. lol I edited the original post for clarification...

ohh.. in that case, this is a good solution for you

pdf 995: create PDF documents easily for free

[rondo]

Openoffice.org is free and it's one of the best tools for making pdfs.


Andrew

[greenovni]

I second openoffice

[stsnelson]

Dru-man, there are really no disadvantages anymore. Just download open office or use an online tool to convert your file and you will be fine. It's easier than you think.

[Feral1]

Hi, also a PDF creator right here at Warrior forum : http://www.warriorpro.com/WarriorPDF.zip

As mentioned Open office and PDF 995 are both good
Doesn't seem to be any problems with free ones as long as they allow linking.

[Minisite Nerd]

Another vote for Open Office here.

It's free and like one click to turn what you have into a PDF. Very few problems with converting links that are "live".

[radhika]

Originally Posted by dru-man

Hey, can you guys tell me if there are any disadvantages to using free pdf creation software for ebooks you intend to market and sell? If there are no major reasons not to, can anyone make a reccommendation?

Basically you can create pdfs even with free pdf creators. But you don't get advanced features like pasword protecting pdf, including your company watermark etc. But if you dn't all those bells and whistles, then you can use any free pdf creator.

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[JayXtreme]

Yup..

OpenOffice vote from me too, there really is no need for any other .pdf creation tool.. OpenOffice is the biznassssss

Peace

Jay

[abo28]

The biggest disadvantage from my point of view: the links in the PDF were not functional. You could not click on them.

The solution: OpenOffice - again.

[Woody C]

I use a word processor such as OpenOffice or Microsoft Office. You can use these to edit and write as you please. You can create headers, footers, links, etc in these just as with a .pdf creator.

Then I simply run the .doc file through Convert MS Word (doc) files to Adobe Acrobat files (pdf) for free. No login required. and it spits out an exact copy in .pdf form. It's easy and free.

[MeTellYou]

I personally HATE open office -- way too bulky, but yeah... for PDF's it's great.

[Spinethetic]

to convert between file formats try using Media Convert - free and on line - convert and split sound, ringtones, images, docs -, includes good file size compression ration.

[stanwa]

OpenOffice always works for me.

[tladouce]

Hi Everyone,
New to the Warrior Forums and hope to be an active member. Thanks for the tip on OpenOffice. I have bee struggling for weeks trying to figure out how to make PDF's with clickable image links. I have had OpenOffice on my computer for months just never bothered to check it out. Great tip. Thanks.

Terry Ladouceur

[mekap04]

This may be a silly question but after creating the pdf files or pages, how do you put them all together in one pdf file or the finishing ebook?

[nebraska]

Originally Posted by rondo

Openoffice.org is free and it's one of the best tools for making pdfs.


Andrew

Definitely...Haven't seen PDF creation software since last century.

[Camagu]

openoffice all the way!

[mmacken]

Originally Posted by Woody Crenshaw

I use a word processor such as OpenOffice or Microsoft Office. You can use these to edit and write as you please. You can create headers, footers, links, etc in these just as with a .pdf creator.

Then I simply run the .doc file through Convert MS Word (doc) files to Adobe Acrobat files (pdf) for free. No login required. and it spits out an exact copy in .pdf form. It's easy and free.

Ill second that, all links are active in the pdf's and its quick and easy. No fancy stuff though but if you are just after basic pdf creation, it does the trick.

[ricsale]

You can't really beat OpenOffice. I had been using DeskPDF (paid version) for some years and this would hang when processing some large Word documents.

Since swapping over to OpenOffice a few months back I have had no such problems.

Cheers

Rich