Aaron2004 Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 My boss wants me to buy Acrobat standard for over 20 people. Even with a volume license, this could get pretty expensive. We will also inevitably be upgrading to Vista in the next year, which is supposed to have the new 'PDF' killer, XPS. After doing research on Google, I found a lot of year-old articles....including the possibility of a free PDF generator from Adobe. Does anybody here have any insight on something like this? I hate to buy all these versions of acrobat to have them go free next month. Aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 At my old firm we used DeskPDF from docudesk.com. It did most of what we wanted for somethink like $30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron2004 Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 MMm..Thanks, Andrew. Money aside, was it as good as normal acrobat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 No, there were some thing I occasionally did in Acrobat that it wouldn't do, but it was quite good nonetheless. It could handle things you wouldn't expect like Autocad plotting to a vector PDF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmowry Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 We use a program called "PDF995" here at my firm. Creates PDF's like magic - no size limitations like Acrobat Standard vs Pro, and our IT guys say it costs about $9/seat. Looks like the website has a suite of programs for editing PDFs as well. http://www.pdf995.com/ -Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasteen Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 I've owned Acrobat Professional for several years. Over time it becomes unreliable for creating pdf's from various programs. I experienced this on two different pc's. Last I check only the Reader works with 64bit OS's. I started using various free pdf creators and I'm much happy with them. However none of them use the more advanced features of Acrobat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt McDonald Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 We use a program called CutePDF office wide. And then have a couple of copies of Acrobat Pro on community workstations for more advanced things that you don't do very often. I find the setup pretty handy, inexpensive, yet still full featured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron2004 Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 Thanks guys for the cheaper PDF options! No insight though on XPS? Mmmm....Oh well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nazcaLine Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 i use the free primopdf and works well. i use it with autocad, word, excel, etc. and works fine. but of course if you want to make something more sophisticated i guess you should look for something else. Eduardo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigroo Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 We use Acrobat Pro 7.0 & PDF factory. 2 different ends of the scale but the cheapo does the job for plotting fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Clementson Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 If you are getting a volume license from Adobe then you could look at Acrobat Elements - its only available via volume licensing. Not used it so I don't know what the limitations are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt McDonald Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Thanks guys for the cheaper PDF options! No insight though on XPS? Mmmm....Oh well! I'd be leery of it until it truley became a widely adopted standard but almost everybody knows pdf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamir Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Being able to harness the power of PDF’s in today’s architectural office is a must. We have found that most PDF convertors come short when it comes to conversion of bitmaps imbedded in documents. There is hope however: Blue Beam is a relatively new company which is focused on the creation of PDF conversion software, dedicated for design professionals, and offers many possibilities for PDF creation and editing (we have downloaded the trial version few days ago) Their pricing scheme seems reasonable as well, and their website is great: Check it out: http://www.bluebeam.com/web07/us/?src=99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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