PDF

The Portable Document Format developed by Adobe - essentially Encapsulated PostScript with a few indexing,crypto and security features thrown in.

Resources:

• CutePDF - works properly under Terminal Services, Citrix, etc. (my current choice)
• Primo PDF - doesn't work properly under Terminal Services.
• PDF Creator
• Ghostscript
• RedMon
• PrinceXML - converts XHTML into hyperlinked PDF documents.

Mac OS X uses Display PostScript (part of its NeXT heritage), so you don't need anything to view or create PDFs in it (just save the Print Preview results to a file).

Tools:

Viewers:

(I rely exclusively on Mac OS X Preview and Linux has plenty of them, so this is mostly Windows-oriented):

• Foxit PDF Viewer - very fast, very small, somewhat buggy image display and font rendering. Lets you remove all toolbars, advertising, etc.
• Adobe Acrobat 6.0.2 - the only bearable one, since 7.0 is full of unsightly bloat.

Toolkits:

• Multivalent PDF Tools - written in Java

Libraries:

• FPDF, a PHP class to generate PDFs
  • Ruby port
  • (incomplete, outdated) Python port

Samba/Ghostscript Printer:

[smbpdf]
  comment = PDF Generator
  path = /var/spool/samba
  printable = Yes
  print command = gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q - \
  sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%H/%s.pdf; rm %s