The best free pdf creator which creates clickable links??

TiffLee

15 years ago

I'm not sure if it is what you are looking for, but I use OpenOffice to create my PDFs.

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Snow_Predator 15 years ago

Nice one TiffLee I reckon OpenOffice is just what the OP is looking for.

Best damn hyperlink-preserving PDF creature I've come across. Plus it's opensource hence free.
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phil.wheatley

15 years ago

Yeah, I forgot about Open office, but I have already created the doc in Word, so if I throw it into open office now, everything moves all over the place. Any other ideas?

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Aarron

15 years ago

Hey Phil,

It shouldn't throw everything out of place, just copy it all and paste it into open office - simples.

Alternatively if you are really having problems and you need this doing ASAP then you could try NitroPDF - it's not free forever but you can get a 14 day trial at nitropdf.com.

If that STILL doesn't help you could try these:

Downloadable/Online PDF Creators
These simply and emminently usable programs will allow you to quickly create your own PDFs.

CUTEPDF: Create a PDF file from almost any printable document. CutePDF has an open SDK and doesn’t bog down their software with popups or watermarks.
PDF reDirect: The freeware PDF reDirect offers loads of robust features, including PDF creation, previews, encryption, and more, that go a long way to replacing Adobe.
CC PDF Converter: This printer driver can be used to create a PDF file from any printable Windows application.
PDF Creator: Use PDFCreator to create PDFs from any printable program, as well as encrypt and autosave files based on predefined terms.
Open Office Writer: Open Office has a PDF export feature that allows you to define compression levels as well as handle thumbnails and hyperlinks.

(source: cogniview.com)

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phil.wheatley

15 years ago

Originally Posted by ramshanked

Hey Phil,

It shouldn't throw everything out of place, just copy it all and paste it into open office - simples.

Alternatively if you are really having problems and you need this doing ASAP then you could try NitroPDF - it's not free forever but you can get a 14 day trial at nitropdf.com.

If that STILL doesn't help you could try these:

Downloadable/Online PDF Creators
These simply and emminently usable programs will allow you to quickly create your own PDFs.

CutePDF: Create a PDF file from almost any printable document. CutePDF has an open SDK and doesn't bog down their software with popups or watermarks.
Adobe Online PDF Creator: The online version of the popular Adobe Acrobat.
PDF reDirect: The freeware PDF reDirect offers loads of robust features, including PDF creation, previews, encryption, and more, that go a long way to replacing Adobe.
CC (Free) PDF Converter: This printer driver can be used to create a PDF file from any printable Windows application.
PDFCreator: Use PDFCreator to create PDFs from any printable program, as well as encrypt and autosave files based on predefined terms.
Open Office: Open Office has a PDF export feature that allows you to define compression levels as well as handle thumbnails and hyperlinks.
Scribus: Use this desktop publishing program to create interactive PDF presentations and forms.
HylaFAX: HylaFAX is an open source fax server that can be configured to deliver in PDF.

Oh wow, cool, that's quite a list.

Many many thanks!!!!

Phil

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amalrichard 10 years ago

Originally Posted by phil.wheatley

Oh wow, cool, that's quite a list.

Many many thanks!!!!

Phil

I like to go with Open office for PDF Creator.
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BIG Mike

Banned 15 years ago

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Brian Kirkpatrick 15 years ago

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

MS Word 2007 also comes with a free one that works great...

Hey Mike,
I just downloaded that from Msft but Word 2007 has been very confusing for me to find my way around.Looking for a clear tutorial on how to do bookmarks and links in a word doc. Can you help? Thanks much!
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NicolaTewhare

15 years ago

pdfonline.com do a free conversion. They sell the software but you can do it online. And the links are clickable.

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netnits

15 years ago

MS Word 2007 and 2010 have inbuilt PDF creator. The links are clickable.

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Riz

15 years ago

As Big Mike mentioned, MS Office 2007 works great for me.

You mentioned tou have created your document in word - what version do you have?

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Michael Mayo

15 years ago

Hi Phil,
I was looking for a way to merge pdf's and came across this today!
PDFill PDF Editor with FREE PDF Writer and FREE PDF Tools - www.PDFill.com and it's Free!

I've only just started playing with it although it looks interesting and seems to have
a lot of bells and whistles.

Hope that Helps,
Have a Great Day!
Michael

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yukon

Banned 15 years ago

Open-Office does clickable hyperlinks inside a pdf, all day long...

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Michael Mayo

15 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Open-Office does clickable hyperlinks inside a pdf, all day long...

Not on my 8Meg file it won't. Didn't even work at 4Meg. Open Office is what I
would normally use it just couldn't do it this time...lol

I even created a html file, loaded it into my browser and then tried to use
Snag-It using the scrolling capture feature and it also failed... Neither of the above could handle
the huge file sizes.

Next is PDFill PDF Editor with FREE PDF Writer and FREE PDF Tools - www.PDFill.com
I'll report back in after I put it through the tests.

Have a Great Day!
Michael

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yukon

Banned 15 years ago

You must be doing something wrong, because it works for me.

Are you creating the pdf/text inside open-office, or are you copy & paste into open-office from another editor?

Originally Posted by yukon

Open-Office does clickable hyperlinks inside a pdf, all day long...

Originally Posted by Michael Mayo

Not on my 8Meg file it won't. Didn't even work at 4Meg. Open Office is what I
would normally use it just couldn't do it this time...lol

I even created a html file, loaded it into my browser and then tried to use
Snag-It using the scrolling capture feature and it also failed... Neither of the above could handle
the huge file sizes.

Next is PDFill PDF Editor with FREE PDF Writer and FREE PDF Tools - www.PDFill.com
I'll report back in after I put it through the tests.

Have a Great Day!
Michael

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Matt Morgan 15 years ago

I give another vote for office org, and it is free.
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Jermaine Tabor

15 years ago

Go to cashkeywords.com and download their marketing research toolbar. I know you're not looking for another toolbar but this 1 have some advantageous features when ever you doing niche research & all @ your finger tips.

It also have a pdf creator with clickable links module you can add to your toolbar. The pdfs are not branded and btw that site is not an affiliate link.

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TheBrainteacher

15 years ago

I used DoPDF until I bought Microsoft Office Pro 2010, which makes PDFs too just a bit more easily (save file as). Before DoPDF I has bought Scansoft PDF Create, yet DoPDF worked just as good and was free!

Here's the link. Give it a go! My PDF files are 16Mb and the links are retained fine. All you do is print to DoPDF and it makes the PDF like magic!

Download PDF converter doPDF and create PDF for free

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BillPill

15 years ago

If pasting your Word content into OpenOffice Writer moves it all around, try pasting it into OpenOffice Draw instead. That should retain everything much more nicely and still can make .PDFs all day long. This has got to be the simplest way.

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JohnVerb

14 years ago

PDF-XChange certainly does do click-able links (including embeded links) and if you are having a problem - you should let us know and we will take a look ASAP - and the PDF-XChange Viewer (even the FREE version) will allow you to add them to any PDF file - so we would be interested in seeing an example file for sure...

Cheers

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NickBhakta

14 years ago

I proudly use Open Office and love it. Once you create your document, all you have to do is export it to a .pdf file. All images and links export just fine. Best of all, Open Office is free!

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Itachi 14 years ago

If everything is out of place try saving it in another format and open it again.

OpenOffice is nice, I don't know about the other softwares suggested here but I know the professional software for PDF is Acrobat X pro it is'nt free though but it's really nice just like any Adobe program.
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Mark Haskin

10 years ago

I found a command-line app called PDF Link Creator that searches for text strings and replaces them with clickable web links. It can search by string lists or by numeric masks. Works in bulk, so no actual editing. Useful for many documents, lots of pages or search strings. hosted here product2opencart.com

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