Z, One other possibility is to have folks import their Word docs into OpenOffice, and then Save as PDF. OO does a very nice job. I don't have experience converting Excel to PDF in OO, but that should be OK too.
Hope this helps, Mike McCallister On 5/23/06, Syed Zaeem Hosain <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote: > My questions related to the fact that we need to get PDF creation > ability for *all* the employees in our company, and the price of > Acrobat Pro (or Standard, too) would be very prohibitive. These > folks mostly do not use FrameMaker ... most are simply using Word > and Excel for their daily stuff. > > Right now, I am leaning towards either Acrobat Elements or PDF995 > as the "preferred" solution for this new policy ... those seem to > have garnered the most "votes" too, but I do plan on quickly looking > at some of the open-source freebie stuff as well. > >> > >> Hence, my questions: > >> > >> 1. What are you all using for PDF file creation? > >> > >> 2. Does it allow forms? I.e., for external folks to fill in fields and > >> send back the form! > >> > >> 3. What would you recommend we do, if you were setting up a similar > >> policy? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> Z > > _______________________________________________ -- Mike McCallister Technical Writing Consultant, Compuware Author, "SUSE Linux 10 Unleashed"