I bow before the linux gods and goddesses. I'm an old relic who use to fumble through cpm, dos, windoze and now Mac 9.1 and Tiger. I'm esentially an end user who gets hoodwinked into making things work.

Here's my question. At my new job, I'm working on wdoze XP, on a network, and a portal to a linux server. All of the Office software is kinda current, but the linux and windoz accounting software is super old. All I want to do is have the ability to print to pdf's so I don't have to get up and down, go to the printer and then stick the stuff in a copier that scans and makes a pdf. I'm semi-disabled, and by the time I get up and down, I want to pass out.

Would buying Adobe Acrobat Professional or Standard (it's up to 8 now) solve my problems? Their literature and website says that they can make a pdf from anything that prints. Is this true? Does the Adobe pdf become a virtual print driver?

I have all of this stuff on my Mac Powerbook, Adobe professional and all the latest software, and everything works seamlessly, but I don't quite understand the process. Am I correct, or am I on drugs?

Anyone who helps will be sent a big boatload of good mojo.

Bambi