Adobe Create PDF
Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: online, pdf, creator | Themes: Software, The Internet
8. Adobe Create PDF
Adobe Create PDF
Finally, we saved Adobe’s own online PDF service entry for last. The Adobe Create PDF service, like the other ones we’ve tested, allows you to convert your Word and Excel documents and Websites into PDF files.
Unlike other services that have file-size limits, Adobe only offers five conversions for free on a trial basis.
Adobe offers a robust set of conversion options including optimization for Web, print and press. You can selectively convert pages within a document, which is something that no other service that we tested offered. Adobe will also safe guard your file for a 72-hour period.
In our test case, the Magna-Carta- Word-doc conversion to PDF, surprisingly, took the most time of any service tested. Indeed, no service took longer than three minutes to do the conversion.
On the URL-to-PDF test, Adobe’s service did not fare well at all. There are no obvious preference settings to specify landscape, which is a problem.
As you can see above, the actual conversion itself wasn’t right, either. Adobe Create PDF also failed our XLS conversion test with the default optiona
| Service | Zamzar | FreePDFconvert | Neevia | PrimoPDF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Word to PDF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Excel to PDF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| URL to PDF | "Only files found on URLs not a website to pdf tool" | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| PDF to Word | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PDF to HTML | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Delivery | "Browser download - email notification" | "Browser download as ZIP - email notification" | "Browser download
- email notification" | |
| Pricing | Free/ $7 , $16 and $49 month based on storage | Free / $9 month | Free | Free |
| Service | ExpressPDF | PDF Online | Adobe Create PDF | Google Gmail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Word to PDF | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| Excel to PDF | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A |
| URL to PDF | Yes | Widget for developers | Yes | N/A |
| PDF to Word | Yes | N/A | Yes | N/A |
| PDF to HTML | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes |
| Delivery | N/A | "Browser download - email notification" | browser | |
| Pricing | Free | Free | Trial/ $9.99 month | Free |
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I have been in the print on demand and publishing business with a large firm for 18 years. Anytime someone sends native files in Word or Excel, we absolutely cringe. It can be very time consuming to convert the documents and have them turn out the exact way the creator sees the documents on their end. So, I guess you could say that in the end, you get what you pay for. Free service.....I wouldn't expect miracles with Word and Excel.
http://www.pdfescape.com
Good article for those looking to create PDF files though
When you tell a program to print something a print box appears. You can then tell OS X to save the document to a .pdf file.
I do love my Mac.
Glenn
We use at my work and I love it. Very inexpensive too.