What is the best alternative to acrobat for creating pdf. It is for formatting a book and will only use once?

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I use The Print Shop version 15, though I know newer version also let you save files as PDFs. Did a holiday cookbook back in 2005 for my cousin's daughter, saved it as a PDF, and copied it to disk. Perfectly readable on Acrobat.

If you go this route, I suggest using the Newsletter project and starting from scratch. Then make your own page template and saving it for use on a variety of projects. Once you start a news letter, down on the bottom left corner it should say page 1 of 1 with a goto next page to the right. Clicking the arrow brings up a menu that lets you select how many pages you want to add, whether their before or after the current page, and whether their a copy of a page (and wich page their a copy of) or to be blank. So I'll add X number of pages that are copies of page 1 (which is usually the blank template I use), then work on those pages leaving at least one set up as the page template. That way if I need more pages than I originally selected, I can make more copies of the template then work up to the template page again. When everything's done I can delete all unused pages before saving as a PDF.