>We need to be able to send documents in a readable format to many places. I thought about Adobe PDF files.
>
>Does anyone send their data in PDF format for viewing by others? If so what does it take to be able to save data in that format. I have a call in to Adobe and am waiting on a response. I wanted to check here also, so maybe I do not have to reinvent the wheel.

There are two free ways to create pdf files:

1. Aladdin Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)

with RedMon (http://www.ghostgum.com.au/)

I use the following pdfwrite.rsp file with Aladin :

-Ic:\aladin\gs7.00\lib;c:\aladin\fonts
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-r300
-dNOPAUSE
-dSAFER
-sPAPERSIZE=a4


For RedMon Port/Settings/Argument For ... field use

@c:\aladdin\pdfwrite.rsp -sOutputFile="%1" -c save pop -f -


2. 5D PDF Ceator NikNak ( http://www.ctrlp.com )