I'm trying to find a free program (for our office) that can save PDF files (When i fill a PDF form, Acrobat Reader cant save it), and create PDF files from any program (but thats not a must, since we now use PDF creator which does the job well.). Cropping PDF files would be a useful tool too.  Anybody know a free program that could do that?

Paying 400€ per computer for Adobe's program to do that is just way too expensive.

I've been looking for a similar solution myself. If you want to create static PDFs, you can use many a program such as CutePDF. If you want to create fillable PDF forms (e.g. FDF), I've heard that Scribus can do the job.

For completing and saving PDF forms, I _thought_ that you could do that with Adobe Reader. If not, I believe that FoxIT reader does (their pro version includes many Adobe Pro features for under $40 per license (much less depending on how many you buy)).

The final thing that I explored was automated form filling from XML. I think that it's rare anyone will use this (it's a bit like a mailmerge for PDFs), but it may fill a purpose. No product to suggest for this - you can find them easily enough with a web search.

I didn't find a solution that worked for me, but the above are a few alternatives. If anyone has any more, I'd live to hear as well.

Stuart

Quoting snarbo:

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Have you looked at CutePDF.?

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Yea have tryed that, but for printing PDF's we settled with PDFCreator Free, light and does the job.

DariusKyrak, we dont need to make PDF forms, we need to fill PDF forms AND save them (Acrobat doesnt let you do that). Just downloaded that Foxit readers free version and its looking good, super light compared to acrobat and lets you save the PDF forms. Tabbed windows and all. -> i'm loving it. The pro version doesnt really offer anything usable to be worth the price tag. (cropping and merging might have been usable, they have added those to a diffrent program). Anyway, just installed it to 2 computers, if it works well enough, it'll be installed to everyone.

Quoting JP_S:

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I alwasy used PDF995 until I got Adobe Acrobat.
This always worked fine, except that it is adware (only adds from PDF995) I believe.

Got bad reviews on Download.com and i dont really want to install commercials to my work computer.

I'm a software tech and my office uses pdf's frequently. We use Doro PDF Writer and the entire office loves it.

I've just found one problem with pdf995 - no rotate image. There is an option for it in the editor - but it doesn't work. 

Quoting Robert_NO:

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Only wish there was a funtion to print in more pages to a document.
Like you can print several images into one pdf file, if you get what I mean.
Sort of how it works when you scan in documents in pdf.

PDF Creator (posted a link to it in one of my posts) does that. If you want to try it out, i can give you more detailed instructions how to do it.