There are many ways to create PDF files, and many utilities used to accomplish this. If you have Acrobat Professional running on your machine, you have probably discovered that the Acrobat’s installation process installed a print driver for you. It’s called Adobe PDF, and can be used to create a PDF file from ANY application that has print capabilities. Some of you may even use this feature exclusively. Now suppose you are away from your computer, and you find yourself at someone else’s machine, or you have a PC that does NOT have Acrobat Professional installed. You need to produce a PDF on the spot, but without your Adobe PDF print driver at hand, you’re stuck. .. or are you?
Adobe has added another terrific service to their cloud. It’s called Adobe CreatePDF, and it offers some pretty amazing features. This is not Adobe’s first online-PDF creation utility, but it certainly is the most flexible and capable. It will allow you to convert many file types to PDF. As useful as this is, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. You can convert multiple documents into a single PDF file, and if you’re using Windows, you can download and 
install a special print driver that will allow you to create a PDF file online from any application that can print. All this functionality is available for computers that do not have Acrobat Pro installed. Amazing!
Is the service free? No – well not exactly. You can convert five files to PDF as a test drive, but the combining multiple files to a single PDF won’t be available to you unless you subscribe to the service. The cost to use this service with unlimited conversions is only $9.99 per month. Visit https://createpdf.acrobat.com/welcome.html to give it a try or to subscribe to the service. You can access the tools from your Acrobat.com account too.
I believe this is more than reasonable if you will be at various computers throughout your schedule, and Acrobat Pro is not always at hand. Remember, you can log in to the service from ANY machine with web access and a browser!
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[...] Mankin – trainer, blogger, community member and Adobe Certified Expert – recently wrote a very nice summary of the new Adobe CreatePDF online service on his Acrobatix! blog. In the article, David gives an [...]