This category provides several applications for those who do not have the full Adobe Acrobat software. These application will allow the user to convert a variety of documents to PDF format and/or vice versa.
A Web-hosted service that can convert a wide variety of documents, including WordPerfect, Word and other Microsoft Office, web pages, PostScript or most image formats, into Adobe PDF files. Free trial (first 5 conversions). http://createpdf.adobe.com/
Provides Microsoft Office to PDF file conversion application to be installed on any server. It's open-source and a demo is available through email. http://doc2pdf.sourceforge.net/
Web based commercial service to convert Microsoft Word documents to PDFs. Requires payment for conversions, or ads will be displayed on the converted PDF http://www.fastpdf.com/
Developers of ClibPDF,a library of ANSI C functions for creating files via C language programs without Acrobat tools, and TIFF2PDF, a command line program that converts TIFF files. http://www.fastio.com/
A document conversion and formatting utility that produces indexed HTML, PDF and PostScript files suitable for printing and on-line viewing. http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/
Offers two freeware products. FreeDist for postscript to PDF conversion and combining multiple postscript or PDF files to a single multipage PDF file. Mulps21PDF for combining multiple prints from any Windows program into one multipage PDF. http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/
Free online Postscript to Acrobat file converter. It uses AFPL Ghostscript to converts a user supplied Postscript file to PDF file. Provides FAQs, help files. http://www.ps2pdf.com/
Makers of advanced PDF extraction, conversion, indexing, print ad display extraction tools. Products extract text and images in a variety of useful formats including HTML, RTF, WML, JPEG & BMP. Transform tables into SYLK, RTF or HTML and convert hyperlink http://www.iceni.com/
Server-based PDF creator and converter software tools, offering dynamic generation of PDF documents, form filling, and conversion of file formats like Word, Tiff, PS, and HTML. http://www.activepdf.com/
Free online document publishing service. Can convert documents into PDF or HTML file format for free. The process takes place on the server. Sign-up required. http://www.gobcl.com/
A tool for anyone who wants to read and understand the internal structure of a PDF document. Free web service, which converts PDF documents into html or text/pdf. The html format is fully colorized with hyperlinks. The text/pdf format is readable by both http://www.pdfsnake.com/crystal/
Print to PDF in Windows 2000/XP or later. eDocPrinter PDF Pro has features including MUI Selection (English, German, French), N-up, security, auto hyperlink, watermark, font embedding, auto email, and destination control. http://www.iteksoft.com/
Produces multi-platform software to extract text and images from pdf files and legacy systems into flat file, HTML or database format http://www.idrsolutions.com/
Software designed to create and edit PDF documents.(Windows 95, 98, 2000, 2003, ME, NT 4.0, and XP). Includes downloads, FAQ and upgrade information. http://www.pdf995.com/
Specializes in software for creating and converting files to PDF format from document files of Microsoft Office, Lotus, Autocat. http://www.pdfwizard.com/
An application that enables the export of contents from PDF documents into different formats. (PDF to Excel, PDF to RTF, PDF to Word). Permits the handling and processing of PDF contents in other applications. Adobe Acrobat does not have to be installed. http://www.pdfgrabber.com/english/products/PdfGrabber/index.html
Printer driver utility to convert any Windows printer output into searchable document files. Supports 140+ different formats including doc and pdf. http://www.eprintdriver.com/eprint-best.html
Create PDF and convert anything printable to high-quality PDF documents with high printing resolution, copyright information, encryption, access control and fonts embedding. http://www.go2pdf.com
Stand alone product that converts PDF files into Word documents while retaining layout, graphics and character level formatting. http://www.solidpdf.com
Focus on converting PDF to TEXT and XML. Stand alone products and components for end uses, developers, enterprises and software companies. No need for third party software or libraries. http://www.pdf2text.com
Microsoft Word add-in that converts PDF files into Word documents that look like the original - complete with formatting and graphics. http://www.scansoft.com/pdfconverter/
