Creating PDFs

[snubbed]

I need to create pdf files from scratch. Are there any softwares for doing that ?
I could only find softwares which converts doc files to pdfs & from other formats to pdfs.

[ThinkFree]

Some free softwares claim to provide this , but they are not good at all. Though you can get good ones if you are ready to shell out some money.

[Cool Joe]

You can do it with Foxit PDF suite. It is paid, but it is a lot cheaper than Adobe's products. It's not as feature rich as the Adobe one's though.

+1 for ThinkFree

[Garbage]

AFAIK, there are softwares which can EXPORT to PDF. There is no such thing like building PDF from scratch.

Create document n export as PDF.

[Krazzy Warrior]

+1 Foxit PDF suite

[sakumar79]

You can use OpenOffice.org to create your file and then export it to PDF format...

Arun

[Cool Joe]

^^PDF Creator gives more flexibility while exporting.

[webgenius]

First create the document you want to convert to PDF format. Then convert it to PDF using PDF995. It's a FREEWARE. Believe me it'll satisfy most of your requirements.

[NucleusKore]

Use OpenOffice.org
Available for both Windows and Linux

[Cool Joe]

Why don't you guys understand that Open Office.org just exports the file to a PDF and does nothing else? With other software like PDF Creator, you can change a lot of settings before exporting. You can make it write, print protected. You can't do all that with OOO.

[ThinkFree]

^You get the options like password protecting, making the file write protected, opening the file in full screen mode by defaults etc. in openoffice as well.