I recently needed to produce a PDF on my XP box at work, but as I didn’t have Adobe Acrobat Professional installed I had to do some digging. Luckily it didn’t take too long to find a convenient solution. Even better, I found an easy and free solution: doPDF. This utility installs itself as a virtual printer, providing the ability to create PDFs by selecting the plugin as the printer of choice in any program, in the same manner as Acrobat’s”Print as PDF” functionality.
It does exactly what it says on the site, even on a 64 bit install of XP.
For folks using OS X – the functionality is baked into your computer!
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I ran into the same thing (for invoices) and gave cuteftp (cuteftp.com) a try. It sets up as a virtual printer as well. I use it at least 3-4 times per month and it’s been great.
Thanks for commenting Chrispian! Did you mean CutePDF by chance?
I may try it out in fact as I discovered the doPDF had issues with semi-opaque objects in my Visio doc.