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dmcnickle
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Oct 20, 2009, 11:12 AM
 
Is there an application to create or author pdf documents besides Adobe Acrobat?
I want to combine different text documents, photographs, graphics etc. into a pdf document and was hoping to find something other than Acrobat. I can find applications to merge pdf documents.

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Oct 20, 2009, 11:38 AM
 
Set up your document in a word processor, when you Print, select the PDF drop down in the lower left corner and choose Save as PDF. Do you need something more than that?
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Oct 20, 2009, 12:19 PM
 
PDFPen is a great (albeit not free) alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

I use that a lot.

But I agree with Gregg: the layout needs to be done in a separate app. Acrobat or PDFPen is only to give it the finishing touch.

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Oct 20, 2009, 12:27 PM
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I have used the "save as PDF" option before when saving documents. I also need to combine several "text" documents, graphics and photographs into pdf format. Right now they are all separate documents and I want to create one pdf document with all of them.
Will PDFpen do that? What other choices are there?
     
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Oct 20, 2009, 01:13 PM
 
What Gregg was saying is to dump everything into something like Pages or Microsoft Word, which both display picture files as movable text boxes.

And the text documents you can copy/paste in. Any word processor might work (not sure if TextEdit handles image files though).
     
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Oct 20, 2009, 01:47 PM
 
Originally Posted by OnTheKeys View Post
What Gregg was saying is to dump everything into something like Pages or Microsoft Word, which both display picture files as movable text boxes.

And the text documents you can copy/paste in. Any word processor might work (not sure if TextEdit handles image files though).
Yes, that's the quick and easy way to do it with existing software on most people's computers. I've always loved the save as PDF feature which comes standard with Macs.
     
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Oct 20, 2009, 02:23 PM
 
Also, on Leopard and Snow Leopard, you can use Preview to drag pages from one PDF to another. Easy way to combine PDFs without having to d**c around with a layout app.
     
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Oct 20, 2009, 02:39 PM
 
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