Adobe Acrobat Pro

[Jim Bell]

Any one know where you can get either a freeware equivalent to this or this
at a realistic price, not $400+

 

[Peter Gordon]

Any one know where you can get either a freeware equivalent to this or
this at a realistic price, not $400+

If you are trying to convert postscript to
PDF, ghostscript does this. Basicly it is free for
non-commercial use, read the copyright carefully,
as it is unusual.
Ghostscript is available for download at:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
My command for converting a file called out.ps to out.pdf is:
gswin32 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -
dBATCH out.ps
Modify to taste.

 

[H-Man]

Any one know where you can get either a freeware equivalent to this or this
at a realistic price, not $400+

In my opinion there is no PDF maker equivalent to Acrobat Pro, for fullness
of features. The one I like the best is PDFCreator,
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm
There are others, but I like this one the best.
Whether or not this fills your requirement depends on the feature set you
require.

 

[Don Boring]

Any one know where you can get either a freeware equivalent to this or this
at a realistic price, not $400+

You could buy the latest version of Serif's PagePlus 10.03
that only costs about $125 US. It has full desktop publishing
capabilities and is comparable to Quark or Indesign and you
can export Press Ready PDF files or .TIF proofs with this software.
I use it for a variety of things including a newspaper and Zine and
it is great. I can use it with commercial printers, or copy shops,
either way. The ship free of charge and you can get it in the
continental US within 7 days. Includes Users Instruction Manual.
View product details at: http://www.serif.com/pageplus/pageplus10/

You CANNOT open and edit existing PDF files with this product however.

Don Boring
Glendora, CA. USA

 

[Mike Dee]

Any one know where you can get either a freeware equivalent to
this or this at a realistic price, not $400+

OpenOffice.org prints to a nice basic PDF.

However, addon tool "extendedPDF" to OpenOffice and you've got
something pretty close to Acrobat Pro

<http://www.jdisoftware.co.uk/pages/epdf-home.php>

This works in OpenOffice up to vers. 1.1.4 - I haven't tried it in the
the ver. 2 beta.