There was a time when you had to give your commercial printer a Quark document, along with the fonts and images required to produce your document. It was prone to error - they might not have supported your version of Quark and, when InDesign came along, wasn't supported at all; initially at least. Commercial printers soon realised that PDF documents enabled their customers to output their document - along with the fonts, layout and images required - and simply hand over for printing. They could then duplicate without error. Problem is for Windows users, there is no PDF support built in to the existing operating system and you'll need a PDF tool to convert your work to the format.

doPDF 6.1.287 is a free PDF printing tool that does little more than enable you to choose doPDF as your printer and output to a PDF document. It will output as a high-quality PDF suitable for commercial printing or a low resolution document required for web download.

doPDF link.

31 Jan 2009