Waiting for Zamzar

[Dimocritus]

So, I was going to do my final paper for my film as lit. course until I realized that it wasn't due 'till Friday. Y'know what that means?

Procrastination time!

Time that I spent putting together a couple of posters. Now I'm waiting to get an e-mail from Zamzar.com with my shiny, brand new pdf's and I've got nothing to do in the meantime.

Sooooo... What's going on, peedee?

[Suu]

Why are you using Zamzar? There's plenty of us here who can convert them for you.

[Dimocritus]

Oh. I didn't know. I'm a sort of Luddite. That's good to know for the future.
Also, how about that fief?

[Template]

For that matter, there's PDFcreator.

http://en.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator

[Cramulus]

my favorite freeware way to make PDFs without messing with adobe:

bullzip pdf printer

it installs a virtual printer. When you go to print, you'll see it on your list of printers. If you print to bullzip, the output is a PDF rather than a physical page.

[Dimocritus]

So, a possible stupid question. For some reason, when I transfer doc. files to pdf, the images are getting kind of pixelated. I don't remember this happening before. What could a reason for this be?

[P3nT4gR4m]

Protip - Open office saves to pdf. It's just like all those other free pdf generators except for the fact that it isn't a buggy little pile of gobshite.

[Cramulus]

wait, open office IS or ISN'T buggy? I suspect you and I have had different experiences.

Whenever I dump an open office doc to PDF, I lose tons of layout

[Template]

Protip - Open office saves to pdf. It's just like all those other free pdf generators except for the fact that it isn't a buggy little pile of gobshite.

Hey, the one I use comes from Sourceforge!

[Captain Utopia]

wait, open office IS or ISN'T buggy? I suspect you and I have had different experiences.

Whenever I dump an open office doc to PDF, I lose tons of layout

I've never had that problem personally - is that when you use the Bullzip PDF writer, or the built-in export PDF option?

[Cramulus]

I've had problems with OpenOffice's built in PDF export. Some kinds of formatting (like fonts & odd frames) got a little jumbled. To be fair, that may have been fixed in subsequent builds.

But bullzip is good for if you want to make an image into a PDF, or a webpage, or anything that you can't quickly paste into openoffice.

[Cain]

Open Office has been eating up my processing power of late, so I tried MS Word 2007, and there is a plugin you can download with it to convert files into PDF, which works like a charm.

[Dimocritus]

File's done.