Thursday, April 29, 2010

Create PDF file

Sometimes you need to create / convert to a PDF file (PDF - portable document format) from other application like words / excel files, pictures, and etc. Here is a few softwares available out there that allow you to create or convert them into PDF file.

Before we get into creating PDF file, you should by now at least have an application to let you to open a PDF file. You could download a common free PDF Reader from Adobe Reader here.

Software
1) Adobe Acrobat Professional (Paid)
2) PDFCreator (Open Source, free)
3) CutePDF Writer (Free)
4) Win2PDF (Not sure)

It is worth to mention also that some of the programmer like to automate the PDF file creation from their report in Microsoft Access program using VBA code. The above software may allow you to do that. Here are some other links with tutorial for your reference.

Links
1) http://www.lebans.com/reporttopdf.htm
2) http://www.excelguru.ca/node/21
3) http://www.freeware995.com/misc/vbacode.txt

- If you are interested on how to merge or split file, view previous tutorial here.
- Check out how to copy pictures from PDF here.

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