Hello listers, I would like to find a program to help me create PDF files, from e.g. MS Word. I need document security, i.e. at least to password protect the PDF from changes. Please give me suggestions of software to do this. I'm trying to keep costs down, so freeware would be the best. I am also interested in positive or negative comments on the programs. I have made some research and found the following products so far: *** Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Standard Price: USD 299 Security: Yes *** PDFCreator Price: free. Security: No https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ *** FreeDist http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/ FreeDist is a freeware frontend for Ghostscript. It will watch in a folder for postscriptfiles to be placed in and converts them automatically to PDF. Security: ? (I am not familiar with Ghostscript) *** Free PDF http://www.webxd.com/zipguy/freepdf.htm Free PDF is a short simple program. Other Programs (namely RedMon ... and ... Ghostscript ...) do the hard work. Security: ? *** Zeon DocuCom PDF Driver Version 6 Standard Price (USD): $49.95 Security: You can assign passwords and encryption level (40 or 128bits) to PDF documents created. "Copy", "Print", "Annotate", and "Modify" can be separately controlled http://www.pdfwizard.com/eng/include/INDEX.ASP *** Jaws PDF Creator Price: 79.00 usd/eur Security: Access to all PDF files created by Jaws PDF Creator can be limited by giving the files passwords and restricting certain features, such as printing and editing. http://www.jawspdf.com/pdf_creator/features.html *** The pdf995 suite of products - Pdf995, PdfEdit995, and Signature995 Signature995 offers state-of-the-art security and encryption to protect your documents and add digital signatures. The free versions display a sponsor page in your web browser each time you run the software. A suite key sold for all three products is also available for $19.95. http://www.software995.com/ (I am not sure Signature995 provides the kind of security I am looking for...) *** Win2PDF Pro USD 69 Password protecting PDF files with 40 or 128 bit encryption. Set file permissions to restrict printing, copying, and future modifications to the document. http://www.win2pdf.com/ *** pdfFactory PRO Price: $99.95 (bundled with FinePrint : $109.95) Security: Yes http://www.fineprint.com/products/pdffactory/ *** PDF-XChange 2.5 Security: Yes Price USD 39.50 (including free upgrade to version 3) http://www.docu-track.co.uk/index.php?page=22 [Disclaimer: I do not state the list is complete, nor correct.] However, the list might serve as input for some of you. Please, comments? Please, hints about other programs? Regards, Göran Halfvarson, Sweden Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml