How many times have you wanted to convert your document into a PDF version? Well now you can with PDFCreator. This free open source software will easily convert any document into a read only PDF file format. This software WILL NOT allow you to edit the PDF file. It will only convert the file into PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Professional if you want to edit PDF files. The PDF format is widely used and is an ideal format to store and share information.

Visit this link for a tutorial on how to use PDF Creator.

Advantages of using PDF format

1. No need to purchase separate software to view PDF files. The software you need to view PDF documents is freely available, here 
2. PDF documents are highly compressed, so converting your word documents or inserting images will be reduced in size once saved to PDF format.
3. It’s a highly portable format, widely used by government and state agencies.

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