Comments on: How To Create A PDF Newsletter The Easy Way With MS Paint

By: youthworker

youthworker — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:59:44 +0000

I vote open office as well- internal and external links are clickable, and text can be cut and pasted, which i don’t think is possible in a paint document. I’ve also seen PowerPoint (and, i guess, Open office Impress) used to make a serviceable one page flyer, since these programs handle boxes of text quite easily.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:29 +0000

or use doPDF

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/use-dopdf-to-convert-documents-to-pdf-for-free-windows-only/

By: Thor

Thor — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:57:45 +0000

Agreed, Owen.
Open Office Writer is so much more appropriate for this kind of task, and it makes PDFs with one click, directly on the toolbar. And it’s all free.

By: Doug Anderson

Doug Anderson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:26:01 +0000

You can get a PDF printer driver free from SourceForge; it’s called PDF Creator. There is also a commercial product of the same name. Either one installs as another printer; you use whatever software you want to compose your newsletter, including MS Word, Open Office, even Paint, then print the document to the PDF Creator printer. It creates a proper PDF file.

However, using PDF Creator, URLs are not clickable.

A better way is to upload your document to http://www.acrobat.com where you can create PDF documents free and the links within the document are clickable.

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:00:42 +0000

I’d opt for doing it in Open Office instead. It’s free – it makes seriously high quality PDFs. You can set up a template and use it again and again. Import graphics or paste them. You can also use text and embed live links to either graphics or text. In other words you make a better PDF that is easier to recreate week after week and it will be clickable…