Sadly Adobe holds the rights to the format.. I believe anyone is allowed to
write a reader, but only they are allowed to write software to create PDF's.

Anyway, the capture utility can be found at:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/capture.html

$895 for a 20 000 page license, $14000 for an unlimited license

Cheers
 Roland

PS. Are there any readers beside acrobat available?? - I find it very akward
and irritating...
-----Original Message-----
From: cacciavite@BIGFOOT.COM <cacciavite@BIGFOOT.COM>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 January 1999 11:22
Subject: OT PDF format and Word


>Hi PICer friends,
>
>sorry for this OT but I'm in trouble to trasform a DOC file of Word97 in
>a PDF (Acrobat readable) format.
>
>Anyone can send me the cheapest way to generate PDF file?
>
>Thanks
>
>Leo
>