Protected Document Format (PDF) files are electronic documents used to distribute content, that is not meant to be edited.
To create PDF’s yourself from any program, you simply need a “PDF Printer Driver.” This allows you to print from any application and have the output saved as a PDF document. A good piece of software for this is doPDF (www.dopdf.com), and its free!
Simply put:
- Download the program here: http://www.dopdf.com/download.php
- Install it
- The open the file or document that you would like to convert to PDF,
- e.g. open the MS Word document (in MS Word)
- Go to Print (File >> Print)
- Select doPDF Printer Driver as your printer
- Click OK to print
- Customize the output settings if you like
- Save your output and you’re done
