Actually, Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 is available as a free download. See: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/46...at-8-free.html (note the serial# mentioned there).

Once downloaded and installed, the user can create a Word file into a .pdf file using (or printing to) the "Adobe PDF" option. I use this quite often and actually prefer it over the option provided in Word. (This may be too much trouble for an option to create .pdf's but, it works.)