Creating PDFs for free on Windows

The tech liaisons had an email exchange recently about creating PDFs from Word Documents on Windows, because a faculty member wanted the ability to do this but did not have the full version of Acrobat. Mac OSX has this feature built in (through the print dialogue), but Windows does not... of course.

In my blog reading today, I came across a solution for Windows users:

CutePDF - Create PDF for free, Save PDF Forms, Edit PDF easily.: "This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!

FREE for personal and commercial use! No watermarks! No Popup Web Ads! "

I tried it out, and it seems to work just fine. Requires downloading two small executables, running them, and restarting the computer. After that, you can create pdfs through the print dialogue by selecting it as a printer.