Its interesting to me that Adobe is able to monetize PDF creation, when there are good free alternatives. Acrobat itself is too expensive ($300). I now see they are offering other price points for an online service for PDF creation:

- Free 5 trial (5 documents)
- $10/month
- $100/year

Quoted: Create Adobe PDF Online is the easy way to create professional-looking PDF documents. Offered by Adobe Systems, the inventors of the PDF file format.

Amazon is now supporting an "experimental" PDF converter to Kindle format.

You can send directly to you Kindle via attachment at:

<name>@kindle.com

(this costs $0.10)

or, have the converted file emailed to your PC (for download to Kindle - e.g., when you are not getting radio reception, or are too cheap to pay the 10 cents) at:

<name>@free.kindle.com

(The converted file will be sent to your registered Amazon email address).

Quoted: Mobipocket.com sells electronic books, or ebooks, for all PDA and Smartphones (and for your PC): Read them on your Windows Mobile Blackberry Palm Symbian ( Nokia Series 60 1st 2nd 3rd edition, UIQ 2, UIQ 3) or Pocket-PC .

Mobi-Pocket files can be created from PDF's and then downloaded to the Kindle.

This article was written before Amazon started supporting (experimentally) PDF file conversion for the Kindle. Anyway, there are some advantages of doing the conversion yourself rather than using Amazon's email-conversion service.

Need a 2008 calendar printed on a single sheet PDF? Here you go.

Article on using ReportLab for PDF generation from Python.

Quoted: Python for PDF Generation

Send a fax for free. The cover page will have an advertisement on it (mine was for fax services comparison site).

Upload .DOC, .PDF, or paste text into their web form.

Email confirmation required.

Quoted: Free Internet Faxing - Send faxes to anywhere in the U.S. and Canada for free

Recommended by Roy as a good free PDF creation tool

Quoted: CutePDF allows you to create PDF files from any printable document, save PDF forms using Acrobat Reader, make PDF booklet, impose, rearrange pages and much more.