Best PDF making tool. (Campaign Handouts)

[greyscale1]

I am looking to start working on my campaign handouts soon, and was thinking it would be nice if they were all formatted and nice like the one in the recent dungeon article:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dudc/20080716

What are Enworld's favorite programs for this sort of thing?

Any good templates? Graphics? General suggestions?


Thanks!

 

[Kzach]

Pages on a Mac.

it's fast, intuitive and so easy to use despite being quite powerful. The Mac OS has in-built PDF creation from any application that can print, so I get nice PDF's from it.

Oh, and at $79 for the iWork (Office equivalent) package, it's a bargain too

 

[keterys]

I picked up pdfcreator from sourceforge and it's done pretty well by me. It's not perfect, but beggars can't be choosers.

 

[Northern Guard]

I use OpenOffice to create PDFs from documents.

 

[Syrsuro]

I also use pdfcreator. I like the fact that I can use it to print pdfs from any program (you print to pdfcreator to create a pdf file) so I can use it for both word docs or edited graphics images, and even to create PDFs of spreadsheets (i.e. Heroforge characters).

Carl

 

[Thanee]

Well, the obvious answer is... Adobe Acrobat. However, it is hideously expensive.

PDFcreator is a great free tool to make PDFs out of documents, for example (i.e. put everything together in Word then print to PDF with PDFcreator).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Khaalis]

Personally, I now use Office 2007 which includes its own PDF generator. Its similar to the freeware versions I used in days of Office 2003 and back, but is truly integrated to Office and thus doesn't have some of the formatting issues I've seen with pdfcreator, etc.

I'd love to simply use Adobe, but as Thanee mentioned, its very expensive.

 

[generalhenry]

I'm using primo PDF

 

[Oldtimer]

I use PDF-XChange 4.0 Lite. You just print to it, similar to PDFCreator. Works perfectly.

 

[Greatwyrm]

I've had good results with OpenOffice and PrimoPDF.