Have I stumbled across a simpler-to-install way for my wife and her friends to make PDFs, than using that "FreePDF" thing I blogged a long time ago? That thing was such a bear to install that I had told my wife that unless her friend wanted to bring her laptop over and let me install it for her, she'd be better off just forking over the money for the real Acrobat.

StarOffice, and I think even OpenOffice both have save to PDF features. For a while, my wife was creating a document in Word, then opening in OO to save to pdf.

Then I got her a Mac, which has print-to-pdf built into the OS, and apparently has for a long time.