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Best free word processor / converting to pdf

by Johnny1975
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I've been using wordpad to write my book, but there are things that I can't do, such as wrapping text around images.

And when I do a test conversion to pdf to see how it would look, I use PDF Converter - Convert to PDF Online Free


Some questions :

1) What is a good free word processor that I can download that is comparable to whatever is the standard?

2) When it comes to converting to pdf, can you convert any format to pdf, or only certain ones?

3) is PDF Converter - Convert to PDF Online Free good enough to convert to pdf?
#converting #free #pdf #processor #word
  • Profile picture of the author yakim1
    I would suggest using Open Office at...

    Apache OpenOffice - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

    ...to create your ebook pages and convert your ebook into a pdf file. It is free to download and use and functions very similar to Microsoft Word.

    Best regards,
    Steve Yakim
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    • Profile picture of the author deane4567
      Originally Posted by yakim1 View Post

      I would suggest using Open Office at...

      Apache OpenOffice - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

      ...to create your ebook pages and convert your ebook into a pdf file. It is free to download and use and functions very similar to Microsoft Word.

      Best regards,
      Steve Yakim
      I always use this program [mac & windows]
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Fuhrman
    I agree Apache Open Office is great. Google docs is also surprisingly good in terms of functionality.
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    • Profile picture of the author Johnny1975
      Yes Openoffice is good. I downloaded it and although it's going to take me some getting used to, I like it. It's also got a wordcount and spellchecker. It's got everything I wanted, and it's a nice surprise to be able to convert to pdf. The word wrap is a bit fiddly but I'm getting the hang of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author wolfe655
    Gotta go with Open Office. Great free software!
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  • Profile picture of the author extrememan
    Use OpenOffice. Easy to use to covert to pdf. I personally use it to create my own eBooks. You can create professional books with it. Search for openoffice in google. You will find it very useful!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author shadeofinfo
    Open Office.org hands down is the best option to go with. And it's free
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    • Profile picture of the author pcalvert
      Another free, cross-platform word processor is AbiWord.

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  • Profile picture of the author hardworker2013
    Why not use Microsoft Word instead of WordPad, if you have the
    latest Windows 7 install you can convert to PDF form too
    from micrososft word. If you don't have windows 7
    just use OpenOffice.
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    • Profile picture of the author Johnny1975
      Originally Posted by hardworker2013 View Post

      Why not use Microsoft Word instead of WordPad, if you have the
      latest Windows 7 install you can convert to PDF form too
      from micrososft word. If you don't have windows 7
      just use OpenOffice.
      Because it costs money. It's ok I've got Open Office. It's good.
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  • Profile picture of the author LoneWolf77
    Another vote here for Open Office.

    I've been using it for years and never really had a problem.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gordon King
      Another vote for Open Office and if you need a separate PDF converter try Cute PDF.
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    For saving webpages and other stuff as PDF I use BullZip PDF Printer, a virtual printer.

    For converting documents to PDF I'll typically just use the inbuilt word processor function. Until recently that was OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

    Now I'm on IBM Lotus Symphony which has this feature too. Symphony was IBM's free proprietary office suite, itself based on OpenOffice. Support/updates were recently discontinued, unfortunately. But I use it anyway because I'm a fickle son of a b*tch and prefer the interface, and like IBM in spite of some of the disturbing stuff I've read about the company.
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  • Profile picture of the author Geri Richmond
    Hi,

    I really like OpenOffice because its free and easy to use. It's open source software on the Internet. It's at openoffice.org .

    Good luck with what ever you choose. I forgot to tell you about Kompozer. It's also free.
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    • Profile picture of the author Johnny1975
      There's one thing that I'd really like to do, which is to embed videos into pdf. Is there a way to do that in Openoffice?
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      • Profile picture of the author Johnny1975
        From time to time, openoffice completely breaks down and doesn't open files at all. It's so frustrating. I have to restart windows and this is totally unacceptable. It's a shame because it's otherwise a brilliant program.
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        • Profile picture of the author agmccall
          Originally Posted by Johnny1975 View Post

          There's one thing that I'd really like to do, which is to embed videos into pdf. Is there a way to do that in Openoffice?
          Something like that is probably only going to be found in the new Adobe Acrobat which costs quite a lot of money

          Originally Posted by Johnny1975 View Post

          From time to time, openoffice completely breaks down and doesn't open files at all. It's so frustrating. I have to restart windows and this is totally unacceptable. It's a shame because it's otherwise a brilliant program.
          This is more than likely a problem with your computer or the install as I have run open office on 3 different computers and never had a single problem

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          • Profile picture of the author tommcb99
            Try Kingsoft Office. It has versions of all MS office products and the best part is that the user interface is almost identical to MS, although the older version (2003) of MS office. I've used it quite a bit and the word processor and spreadsheet work great.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    I like LibreOffice. You can use the "presentations" feature to create some killer ebooks. One click convert to PDF
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  • Profile picture of the author TheCodex
    Open Office is dead, Libre Office is its continuously updated fork.
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  • Profile picture of the author spearce000
    Another vote for Libre Office LibreOffice 4.2 is here! (not an affiliate link).
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