Jack wrote:

 >On my setup (old Macs) I can generate PostScript from some
 >applications for free (I think, haven't tried lately) but
 >creating Acrobat files needs a utility that costs money. Is
 >there a way to do it free on any current platform?

For Macs, there's a wonderful answer in PrintToPDF, a $20
shareware package that can be found at:

   http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html

It works like a printer driver. You put it in your extensions
folder, choose it in the chooser and when you print any file it
makes a pdf instead of driving a printer. It even sets up a
desktop icon for drag-and-drop use. The author claims in his FAQs
that Adobe has no objection to any of this.

Two limitations: 1) it only works on Macintoshes and 2) it doesn't
embed fonts, and only works with a small number of ubiquitous
fonts. All others will either be replaced with the standard fonts
or converted to bitmaps (at the user's discretion, of course).
It's great for graphics, however.

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