So there is this dire vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat PDF writer for Windows XP (albeit Microsoft now admits it’s is actually an XP bug) and sure enough an exploit is now in the wild. Sure there is a work around and both Adobe and Microsoft promise fixes at the end of this month. By the way I find it more than a little odd that both companies are fighting over responsibility for this until I considered that Microsoft’s Silverlight product is in direct competition with Adobe’s acquired Flash technology. But fooey on all that I decided this morning. I stupidly paid a bunch of money for Acrobat 6 way back when because it was actually a good and useful product but today I de-installed the printer driver because I found something better.. and of course it’s GNU! It’s called PDFCreator and can be downloaded here from Source Forge. I tried PDFCreator and it works great from Firefox. Unlike Adobe the printer driver remembers the last directory I saved to (I have a master directory where I save my receipts). Here are some screen shots of it in action (click on the thumbnail and then click on Close to return).