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[blade1269]

Hey,

Is there a free or open source Docx to pdf Coverter? Please Help!

[neingesicht]

Just use a pdf printer like cutepdf or pdfill

[neingesicht]

Sorry, if you're trying to do it batch style i believe there is a program called pdftk, i think

[rfirth]

blade1269, on 06 May 2012 - 05:49, said:

Hey,

Is there a free or open source Docx to pdf Coverter? Please Help!

Just in case you haven't realized, this is built-in to MS Office. You don't need any special converters.

[blade1269]

No I just need to do one file, maybe more down the road.
Thanks

[Gerowen]

LibreOffice doesn't, as far as I'm aware, have any issues reading DOCX files. The only issue I've ran into is PowerPoint presentations created with MS Office. That being said, here are two options I recommend.

1) CutePDF - It creates a fake printer, that when you send a print job to it, just converts the print job to a PDF document. It is free software.
Website: http://www.cutepdf.com

2) LibreOffice - The continuation of OpenOffice by The Document Foundation, it has native PDF export capabilities, and works perfectly fine with most MS Office documents (except MS Office created PowerPoints as I said above). LibreOffice is free and open source software.
Website: http://www.libreoffice.org

[blade1269]

Awesome! Thanks!

[blade1269]

rfirth, on 06 May 2012 - 06:23, said:

Just in case you haven't realized, this is built-in to MS Office. You don't need any special converters.

How do I do this in office?

[rfirth]

blade1269, on 06 May 2012 - 06:32, said:

How do I do this in office?

Go to File > Save As. Choose PDF as the format to save in.

That's all you have to do in Office 2010. In Office 2007, you have to install a free add-in.

[Cute James]

Google docs --> print to PDF.

[UXGaurav]

If you apply Office 2007 SP2, Save as PDF is built-in. Or you can download doPDF which unlike CutePDF doesn't depend on requiring to install Ghostscript.

[psreloaded]

Office 2007 service pack 2 onwards, the capability to save as PDF is built in. So if you have office, you should be good to go.

[sibot]

There is a PDF plugin for Microsoft Office available from Microsoft. Otherwise I use doPDF for saving webpages as PDFs.

[TEX4S]

All of these silly suggestions for something that as simple as a "Save as" click...