Not sure if I'm in the right forum but I have to start somewhere. I'm starting a website to sell an ebook. I thought I had everything lined out until I tried to write the book in pdf(using adobe acrobat). Adobe then tried to have me sign up for a monthly subscription. Is this normal. Do I need to do that to even write my book in pdf format? Anyone with ebook sales experience please help!!

Open Office has a PDF export function in it.

PrimoPDF will let you save any file that can be printed (word doc, image etc) into a PDF.

Photoshop will let you export to PDF, but you can, obviously, use Adobe Acrobat Professional (OWTTE).

I use Adobe Acrobat (not acrobat reader) without any problem. Maybe you used the most up to date version that comes with more annoying features. For me Adobe Acrobat 6 7 8 works really great!

You would want to purchase Adobe Acrobat the box software, not to be confused with Abobe Acrobat Service. The former you pay once for the box with CD which you install on your computer. The latter you pay Adobe a monthly fee for web service will generate PDFs for you.

I would get the box software; it will let you club together multiple PDFs into one PDF. And after you install it in Windows, all your windows print dialog will give you the choice to print to PDF file.

Alternatively, you get free equivalents such as CutePDF and PrimoPDF.

More info about printing to PDF.

If you have office 2007, you can get a plugin that allows you to directly save as > PDF.

I love my Mac - it lets me save as PDF