i tried to convert a word doc to a pdf and it says i need microsoft office professional edition 2003...is this really neccessary? i don't have this disk... what happened is now that word doc comes out all funky and deleted everything 20 pages of stuff in there. how can i retrieve this and is there a good converter out there i can use? i guess i need to retreive it first and then convert it to pdf.
There is some free but basics converters around (like PDF creator). imho, Acrobat is the king, but expensive.
Acrobat Reader (aka Adobe Reader) is free, but Acrobat Professional costs mucho $$. You can only read PDFs with Reader. My recommendation? Download OpenOffice, then you can open your Word file in OpenOffice Writer (like Word) and save directly to PDF.
the best free converter tool is open office, because you can convert from any ms office format to PDF
http://www.fastpdf.com/ Haven't tried this but it says free ..or this : http://www.doc2pdf.net/ By the way, don't use Acrobat Reader for viewing pdf files. Use Foxit Reader. It's faster & smaller. For long term, use OpenOffice or StarOffice. They're free
open source kicks butt...no doubt about it...thank you so much guys for the input...i got it done and it looks great! super easy to use too! thank you!