Use windows 'Print to file' option and Linux to create PDF files
I try to keep my computers as vanilla as possible. Recently I make a purchase online and wanted to keep a copy of the receipt. I wanted a PDF copy of the page but I wanted the software I installed to be kept to a minimum. Here's a quick and dirty way of creating a PDF if you a Linux machine handy. The trick is to send the job to a postscript printer and but selecting the "Print to file" option in the Print dialog so that the results are saved to a file instead of sent to the printer itself. Once you have the postscript file, you can transfer it to a Linux machine and run ps2pdf.
I originally sent the job to an HP printer but ran into errors on the ps2pdf so I installed the Generic Postscript Printer and that worked without a hitch.
To automate this process even further, Henrik Schmiediche has instructions on installing all the tools necessary to omit the Linux machine from the process entirely.
[patrick@sprout pdf]$ ps2pdf output.ps %%[ ProductName: GNU Ghostscript ]%% %%[Page: 1]%% %%[LastPage]%% [patrick@sprout pdf]$