Open Source .PDF Converter
July 26, 2007 by Anne Wayman
Filed under Jobs
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.
Write well and often,
Two newsletters:
Abundant Freelance Writing – a resource for freelance writers including 3x a week job postings.
Writing With Vision – for those who want to get a book written.
Hi Anne,
Thanks for this writeup and for the previous post. We will try to continue writing/making useful stuff.
I’ll be back for sure ;)
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.
sounds good, thanks
If you write with OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/), you can save directly to PDF. And OpenOffice is free and open-source.