Yarnification

I’ve been using this for a while now for patterns I get online that I don’t want to either print right away or save in Word format (inevitably, if I save a pattern in Word, I will mess it up when I go to reopen it later and then spend ten minutes trying to get the formatting back the way it’s supposed to be). And I know I’ve seen a few people here and there wondering if there’s cheap PDF software for publishing patterns, too.

Anyway: PDFCreator. It’s free, and it works great. You can use it from any windows program—it gets installed as a printer driver, so you just go to print and pick the PDFCreator as your printer, and it’ll save whatever file you’ve got as a PDF file. It’s been working out really well for me. This is the first free one I’ve ever run across; everything else I’d seen that would do this was shareware and I am all about the free software, so I jumped on this when I saw the link in one of my newsletters…