Peter,
As always, thanks much for your detailed review. (And always good to include recommended alternatives.)
“FREE Adobe CS Acrobat Pro PDF writer yeah, FREE, web search for it.”
I hope that this is not the same (circa 2008 ?) Adobe free edition that has been mentioned in the past. The one I’m thinking of still had too many assembly or setup hoops to jump through, some modules (like .DLLs) that were either outdated or required replacements one had to hunt around for, and in the end — despite closely following the instructions — I could never get it to work under Win-7. For a solution to really be viable, you should basically just have a straightforward one-shot install, and then off you go.