Okay guys, just a few days ago I was tasked by my boss to find a cheaper alternative to Adobe Acrobat. However, his main aim to just to convert all sorts of files to PDF, so I suggested to the brilliant businessman that you can get it for free if you just need to do conversion. His eyes suddenly brightens up when he heard the word “free” and he was hopping around mad like a bunny rabbit. And so I decided to go around the Internet and look for some great software to convert files to PDF. Some of which have quite a number of very useful features included as well. Don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars.

doPDF - I like lightweight software and this is certainly one. Fast and works without problems and doesn’t have any advertisements or adware in it. If you are just looking to convert your files to PDF and don’t need any additional features, this is it. Best it doesn’t require that huge download of a file called GhostScript. From it’s website, it says that it supports 64-bit Windows.

PrimoPDF - Feels a bit sluggish on my low end PC but it should be okay for others. This works very well and I have been using it for sometime now. The latest version supports merging of files so if you have several files with you would like to merge into one, this software does it. There is no advertisements or adware installed. However, Ghostscript is needed for operation.

pdf995 - A very long time friend of mine, this powerful software has tons of feaures which you can add-on through their other upgrades like PdfEdit995. However, the installer takes up a lot of space (for a converter) and it does use up quite an amount of resources. And those irritating advertisements and pop-ups really gets to you after a file, especially if you need to convert a lot of files. Go to their website to see the entire list of features supported by this powerful software.

CutePDF Writer - I don’t understand why everyone likes to call their software “cute”? I mean, I need a lean and mean program, not one that looks cute, unless you are a 10-year old litle girl. Then perhaps cute is important. Okay, now back to the software, this software does it work well but it is just a PDF converter without any other features. I would say both doPDF and CutePDF Writer are in the same league. Lightweight and lean. Cool. Only thing is that it still requires GhostScript, so I would recommend doPDF.

PDF Creator - Open source PDF converter. However, it doesn’t seem to get updated often, the latest version is more than a year old. Anyway, sadly it loads very slow on my system, a bit too slow for frequent use. But then it supports a number of useful features like files merge and encryption. There are no advertisements or adware installed with this software either. And Ghostscript is needed for it to work properly.

Hope this is useful to you. If you have anymore PDF converters that is not shown here, please let us know. Thank you.