January 13, 2006 11:01am by Steve | 
Every once and a while you stumble across a real gem on the web. Just found one… PDFOnline.com. They will convert a DOC (and many other formats) to a perfect PDF for you on their website in about 2 minutes… for free. Three steps: 1) Select a document on your machine, 2) Give it a name, 3) Give them an email address.
Two minutes later you get an email with your PDF attached. There’s no “watermarking” or any other branding on the PDF. It’s clean and perfect.
UPDATE – [BillServo] gave me a suggestion that apparently blows my “great find” out of the water.
He suggests using CutePDF to create your PDFs locally. Free software. No uploads.
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You could also go the CutePDF route- local on your machine and you don’t need to upload sensitive documents anywhere.
It has even worked when Distiller has failed on me.
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp