Open Source .PDF Converter
Codswallop announced an open source .PDF converter. In addition to doing the usual, it makes it easy to insert a creative commons license into your documents. The program is in beta testing and won’t, at the moment, allow color printing or clickable links… but it’s a good start.
The creative commons license is an alternative approach to copyrighting, allowing freedom of use, etc. and worth considering for at least some things, like free ebooks and what-have-you. I’m still thinking through the whole creative commons approach. My intuition says it’s a good thing.
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5 opinions for Open Source .PDF Converter
Codswallop
Jul 26, 2007 at 11:47 am
Hi Anne,
Thanks for this writeup and for the previous post. We will try to continue writing/making useful stuff.
Anne Wayman
Jul 26, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I’ll be back for sure ;)
Scott
Jul 26, 2007 at 6:47 pm
That’s definitely one piece of software that I have to try. Another Open Source PDF tool for Windows that’s worth a look is PDFCreator (http://pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator). What I like about that tool is that if you have a network (even a small home wireless one), you can install PDFCreator on a single computer and print to PDF from any PC that’s using your network.
Anne Wayman
Jul 27, 2007 at 8:43 am
sounds good, thanks
Pat J
Jul 28, 2007 at 11:05 am
If you write with OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/), you can save directly to PDF. And OpenOffice is free and open-source.
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