DIY Mind Gangsterism: Part Four

[mistersleepless]

Tools for taking over people's minds via the internet:

PDF995: haven't tried it myself, but it looks less Star Trek than fPDF. If you understand PHP and codemonkey things, you might want to look at fPDF too. Making PDFs is a useful thing, for making flyers, pamphlets, magazines, anything that you'd want to either emulate print or present print-

Comments

[reverend_pain]

FYI: I use PDF995 and it works like a dream. Very easy to use too, no ads or shareware messages added to the PDFs themselves, which is what you want. They also offer other useful software for free, for editing PDFs and for adding digital signatures, if you're worried about your PDFs being used the wrong way...

[kermix]

OpenOffice also has PDF capability, though it's part of a larger MS Office-like suite; any idea how it compares?

[mr_wombat]

It kicks the holy hell out of MS office, that's for sure. I don't think it's so hot on the Powerpoint end of things (last I saw of it) but for word processing it rocks.

[kermix]

My own fault for not clarifying; I meant, in terms of the PDF export, compared to more PDF-specific applications (which I'm not familiar with, unlike OpenOffice).

[mr_wombat]

Ah, not so sure there, It's been a while. To be honest I wouldn't expect there to be much difference between open office and PDF995 since they're both just PDF printers (unless openoffice has changed dramatically since I last used it).

[reverend_pain]

Personally, I'd have to say that I didn't like OpenOffice last time I tried it, but I let's not get into application fetishism discussions.

As for your question, I can't really give any useful input on the PDF capabilities of OpenOffice, but judging from what mr_wombat says its PDF printer seems pretty much the same.

If you ask me, I'd go with PDF995, it's smaller.