Creating PDF Documents in Windows Using PDFCreator
One essential action that Windows users need is the ability to print PDF documents. Over on the Mac platform is easy to create a PDF document, this feature ships with every copy of OS X. Windows users, are not so lucky but do not fret. A free open-source program called “PDFCreator” is available for download from SourceForge.net. This program creates a new printer on your local system, which will emulate a real printer to all your Windows applications. Although I haven’t played with it in this mode, it has the ability to become a network printer and listen on a local area network for incoming print jobs.
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I frequently see other peoples computers when asked to resolve a problem or conflict. One tool I see rarely-but-wish-I-saw-more-often on these computers is a free file compression tool called 7zip. I think it is one of the best tools nobody has heard of.
You can go get it from here: http://www.7-zip.org/
For those of you whom just left on that link, I’ll wait until you return…
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Your back! Good!
Here are some quick reasons why you want it
- It can compress multi-gig files / directories without slowing down (as the file size increases).
- It can handle UNIX/Linux style .gz or tar.gz or bzip files
- It can unpack RAR files
- It has a nice right-click extract feature
- Its GNU Free Software
- Its lightweight and not bloaty
- It is fast enough for me.
- With respect to free software, its stable and well rooted (good community mass, “mature” project)
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