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Need to create a Pdf, from a Word document, a PowerPoint presentation or a combination of texts and images?Here are the best free solutions to easily convert files to Pdf.

The Pdf (Portable Document Format) is an electronic file format originally designed by Adobe with a very specific objective: to preserve the layout of a document combining text and images - fonts, implementation, implementationshape, columns, etc..- as it was carried out by its author, whatever the software, the operating system and the device used to print it or display it.Deal !A Pdf appears - almost always - identically regardless of the computer or device on which it is displayed, whether with Windows, MacOS, Linux, a smartphone or an Android tablet, an iPhone or iPad.

The Pdf format is so effective that it has become the standard for exchanging documents worldwide, to the point of being adopted as an ISO international standard in 2008.It is used as well by printing professionals - all books, newspapers and magazines are printed from Pdf - as in companies, administrations and individuals, in particular to exchange documents via the Internet..

Even if it is always possible to download and use the Pdf ACROBAT DC Pdf reader for free, which remains the reference, or one of its free competitors, all current devices allow you to easily view a Pdf document without anythinghave to install, because they integrate the necessary tools and functions as standard.On the other hand, many users wonder about how to create a Pdf.And for good reason: there is not one but several ways to do!

Why create a Pdf?

It is useful to be able to create - more exactly, to be able to generate - a file in Pdf format in many situations.Here are the most common.

How to create a Pdf?

Although Adobe offers a paid application, Adobe Acrobat DC, to create a Pdf document from scratch (or rework those existing to make them interactive, for example), most often, we open a document already created in an application of soundChoice (Word, PowerPoint...), then we convert it for free to Pdf.

If the application proposes the Pdf among its recording formats, it is so much the better.But even if it does not provide it, it remains possible to produce a Pdf by printing the result with a special virtual printer, which generates the Pdf file for you.

Here are some possible ways to create a Pdf on computer:

Note that these methods do not only concern Windows, they almost all have an equivalent on Mac, Linux, Smartphones and Tactile Tablets.

How to convert a Word file to Pdf for free?

There are several ways to convert a Word file to Pdf, whether or not Microsoft's word processing is installed on your computer.

Convertir un document Word au format Pdf

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Convertir un fichier Word en Pdf en ligne

There are dozens of websites to convert Word documents to Pdf file: Smallpdf.com, pdf2go, conv2pdf.com, etc.Their assets: you don't need to have word or install anything on your computer, they take care of everything and you get the result in a few seconds.Free if you only carry out a few operations per day, these services are not limited to Word format and offer many options to convert and/or manipulate Pdf.Demonstration with Smallpdf.com.

Do you work on confidential documents?It may be better to avoid going through an online service, and therefore favor a method that works offline: convert the document with Word if you have it, or use the free LibreOffice office suite (which reads the Word files very well) as explained here.

How to convert Excel and PowerPoint files to Pdf?

Like Word, other Microsoft Office Office Applications Master the Pdf format.Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint slideshow can perfectly generate Pdf from their documents.

How to create a Pdf with Windows 10?

You may not know it, but Windows 10 allows you to convert any printable document to Pdf.Indeed, by taking up the principle of utilities as the famous pdfcreator, Microsoft has integrated into its operating system a "virtual" printer called Microsoft print to pdf capable of transforming a document into a file in Pdf format instead of printing iton paper.And this function is all the easier to use as it is integrated into the system - and that it is free, of course!

In practice, you can use this function in two ways: either from the software that has been used to create the document - a word processor or a graphic design program, for example - even if it does not offer format recordingPdf, provided it offers a print function;either directly from the Windows explorer, without even opening an application.

Obviously, but it is better to say it clearly, it is not necessary to have a real printer at home to "print" in a Pdf file.Just simulate an impression through the Microsoft Print To Pdf virtual printer to recover a file in Pdf format.If you have a version of Windows prior to Windows 10 and/or if you have installed another Pdf printing driver, like PdfCREATOR, to have more options, print with this other Pdf printing driver.

Créer un Pdf avec une application Windows

Grâce à l'imprimante virtuelle Microsoft Print to Pdf, vous pouvez générer un Pdf à partir de n'importe quelle application du moment qu'elle comporte une commande du type Fichier > Imprimer.You can for example convert a web page to Pdf to consult it more easily offline.Thanks to its print order, your internet browser (Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer...) can thus convert a long web page into a Pdf document comprising several pages in A4 format - printing has never been the strong browsers, the layout is sometimes a little turned upside down, even disappointing, but the Pdf format n'is not in question.

Convertir un fichier en Pdf avec l'Explorateur de fichiers

This method is especially useful if you want to quickly convert dozens of documents (for example Word or created documents with LibreOffice) in as many Pdf files.Favor otherwise the classic printing method in your application.

To produce Pdfs, even if you do not need to open the application yourself that was used to create the original documents, it is of course necessary to open them and print them be installed inWindows (to convert Indesign files to Pdf, for example, you need the Indesign app or an app capable of reading its files).If you do not have the application that was used to create the document, see the method presented later Create a Pdf with a free online service.

In the following method, the first and last steps (change the default Windows printer) are superfluous for certain file formats, but imperative for others.We give you the generic method that works every time.

How to create a Pdf with LibreOffice?

The LibreOffice Office Suite has more than one tour in her bag: she is free and free, in French, regularly updated, and even if her functions are not always as advanced as those of Microsoft Office, she is completelycapable of producing professional quality documents.She also knows how to convert documents in Pdf format with many options, and even offers the possibility of creating Pdf forms that the user can fill in his computer or smartphone.

Last asset: she reads and writes Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.Even if Microsoft office applications are not installed on your computer, after installing LibreOffice, you can therefore open a Word or PowerPoint document in Libreoffice to convert it to Pdf;If your documents are confidential, it seems safer than going through a free online Pdf conversion service.

How to convert a file to Pdf with a free online service?

Many online services - such as Quesmallpdf.com, pdf2go, conv2pdf.com - allow you to convert different documents of documents to Pdf files for free, but also to merge Pdf, to split them, to compress them, to transform them into Word documents, etc..Most often, only a few operations are offered per day (and the size of the original file or the generated Pdf is sometimes limited), regular use involving payment of the online service.

These services are very practical because they do not impose the installation of any application on your computer.You do not need to own the Word or PowerPoint application to convert a word text or a PowerPoint presentation into a Pdf file.

All these services promise you that they delete their servers the documents they deal with for you.But to convert confidential documents, it still seems to us to go through an application to install on your computer (the LibreOffice Office Suite, for example, which reads the documents created with Word, Excel and PowerPoint and can convert them toPdf) rather than sending your files to the web...

Here, for example, how to convert Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or images with the Smallpdf online service.

How to create a Pdf with PdfCREATOR?

PdfCREATOR, a free application in French, is provided to you with a virtual printer driver to produce Pdf from any application capable of printing a document.This driver works as the Microsoft Print To Pdf driver from Windows 10 but offers you more options.

Please note, there are two applications called PdfCREATOR, we are talking about that published by PdfFORGE.Download it for example on our site.During the installation of PdfCREATOR, Decline (Decline button) The installation of optional applications (Adblock, McAfee Web Advisor...) or any other software that would not be useful to you.The joint installation of the partially free application Pdf architect, of the same publisher as PdfCREATOR, is therefore not imperative (it offers you some free functions including the deletion of pages in a Pdf document, for example, and many other functionsin paid version, so it's up to you).To avoid installing Pdf architect, click on the gear when the PdfCREATOR installation procedure.You can also install it to test the application then, if it is not useful to you, uninstall it via the usual Windows procedure, while keeping PdfCREATOR.

You can also launch the PdfCREATOR application to convert documents to Pdf, but an application capable of reading and printing this document must imperatively be installed on the computer.

How to scan a document to create a Pdf?

A USB or Wi-Fi printer is connected to your computer?It is surely a multifunction model, which combines printer and scanner functions, to scan paper documents.Demonstration with an HP model, but the options are comparable regardless of the brand of your multifunction, cannon or Epson printer for example.

Unless your scanning application includes an optical character recognition function (OCR, Optical Character Recognition), the Pdf pages will be scanned in image format, as if it were a photo: it will therefore not beNot possible to select and copy/paste text in the Pdf.

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