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disadvantages to free pdf creation software?

by Superior Content Creation
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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?
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  • Profile picture of the author greenovni
    What do you mean by a "free e-book creator"? The software to turn your document into a pdf file?
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  • Profile picture of the author Superior Content Creation
    Yes, exactly. lol I edited the original post for clarification...
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    • Profile picture of the author edman
      Originally Posted by dru-man View Post

      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
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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  • Profile picture of the author rondo
    Openoffice.org is free and it's one of the best tools for making pdfs.


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    • Profile picture of the author 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?
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    • Profile picture of the author nebraska
      Originally Posted by rondo View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author greenovni
    I second openoffice
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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".
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  • Profile picture of the author radhika
    Originally Posted by dru-man View Post

    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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  • Profile picture of the author JayXtreme
    Yup..

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

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    • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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    • Profile picture of the author mmacken
      Originally Posted by Woody Crenshaw View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author 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

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  • Profile picture of the author MeTellYou
    I personally HATE open office -- way too bulky, but yeah... for PDF's it's great.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author stanwa
    OpenOffice always works for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author Camagu
      openoffice all the way!
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