Question Free .PDF editor

[george7378]

Hi all,

I am looking to publish a tutorial, but I need a free .PDF editor to make it before I can do so.

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I write things using word, make it look how I want, then convert it to a .pdf. There an multiple web sites that will do this for you totally free.
Here is what I usually use...
http://www.freepdfconvert.com/

 

[eveningsky339]

I use PDFCreator on sourceforge.

 

[Sam]

Open Office's word processor can export to PDF. If you want to see a sample of a finished product, I used it to do this tutorial:

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4127"]Gemini semi-optical rendezvous tutorial (v 0.3)[/ame]


Like the rest of Open Office, it's somewhat clumsy to use (IMO) compared to similar commercial apps, but it is free.

SAM

 

[Bj]

Hi all,

I am looking to publish a tutorial, but I need a free .PDF editor to make it before I can do so.

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks.

Also a plugin will allow office 2007 export pdf's

 

[ex-orbinaut]

Useful Word Plug_in...

http://www.pdf995.com/index.html

 

[StarLost]

Open Office's word processor can export to PDF. If you want to see a sample of a finished product, I used it to do this tutorial:

Gemini semi-optical rendezvous tutorial (v 0.3)


Like the rest of Open Office, it's somewhat clumsy to use (IMO) compared to similar commercial apps, but it is free.

SAM

Yep, my choice. Open Office is still free too (for a while at least, who knows what will happen with the Sun Microsystems acquisition).

Of the various flavours available, my preference if for OxygenOffice.

 

[llarian]

Another good alternative is Scribus. This is a document compositing tool, an acceptable alternative to Quark, that also produces output in pdf format.

It's also another freebie.

 

[RisingFury]

Foxit PDF editor. I know the reader is free, but not sure if the editor is.

 

[Mandella]

Foxit PDF editor. I know the reader is free, but not sure if the editor is.

Sort of. If I recall correctly, there is a shareware version of the Foxit editor but it stamps big obnoxious watermarks on the finished product.

Interestingly, the only free pdf editor I've been able to find that can also edit finished pdfs and not just output from some other format is one that runs only in Linux.