


With Word, for example, Microsoft’s save as PDF options let you specify ISO 19005-1 compliance (PDF/A, the version best suited for electronic consumption), or password protection-but not both. Output options are more plentiful as well. GDoc Creator’s options include PDF variants optimized for different uses. And the GDoc Creator printer driver can generate a PDF from any document that Windows can print. tif), diagramming files, and even e-mail message formats. These include popular image formats (.bmp. But the desktop version of GDoc Creator can create PDFs from all the Microsoft document formats (whether or not you have Office installed) as well as formats Office doesn’t support. Of course, current Microsoft Office apps already allow you to save their documents in PDF format. The settings window lets you specify which flavor of PDF you want (more about that below) where to save the new document (either the source file location or a location that you type in), whether to open the new document when the conversion is done, and whether to alert you with a sound when a conversion is done (which might be a few minutes if you’re performing a batch conversion). It has only four icons: An X to shut down the app, a wrench to bring up the settings window, a question mark to get the help file, and a small grid of dots as a handle to move the app window. Hovering the cursor over the app summons a tiny grey toolbar that flies out on the top half of the right edge.
