What is PDF?
PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It was defined by Adobe. Adobe's acrobat pdf reader is free.
Why would companies want a Notes to PDF facility?
Creating a PDF version of a document or contract or invoice pr purchase order allows it to be emailed printed scaled and it is read only.
Solutions Overview
Most of the solutions take the part of printing to a PDF print driver.
PDFCreator is one free driver: NB PDF Creator (two words) is not free.
Direction on using it are here: http://www.mrbass.org/freeware/pdfcreator/
Alan Bell uses ghostwriter to do it. I have seen this one in action and works for lots of applications as well as Lotus Notes:
http://www.dominux.co.uk/dominuxblog.nsf/htdocs/ABEL634RY5.htm
Another option Alan Bell showed me was to open the document in http://OpenOffice.org writer and then save as PDF.
I never acquired the code for this, so if he is reading this please send it!
One option I use is to create an HTML file based on the notes document that can be emailed. This is even more portable!
There is a commercial solution by PrimeApple called DominoPDF . I have not used this.
If you are a subscriber to LotusAdvisor try: http://lotusadvisor.com/doc/16670
Here is some code for an Access PDF solution if you really need one. :)