Printing with no printer

I have been helping an organization work on a system to transfer documents to and from each other and down to its members. The problem isn't that they have trouble creating the documents, the problem is the organization is made up of members that are scattered around and not located in a single place (common for smaller non-profit organizations) and thus documents are being created in different formats

You have some people created documents in Word, Excel, Publisher, and even Word Perfect. Since these documents have to be viewed by the members and you can't always be sure how or what their system has installed I started working with Portable Document Format (commonly called PDF) Printer.

What a PDF Printer does is install a virtual printer on the users system that prints to a PDF document. Then anyone can view the document using a tool like Adobe Acrobat - which is loaded on most computers and if not can be installed from the Adobe website in seconds.

Now all you have do is download and install PDF Creator on anyone's computer that has a need to create a document that will be distributed widely. Then all they have to do is print, like normal, choosing PDF Creator and a PDF document is created.

You can find more information and more tools at Planet PDF.