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Five Ways to Quickly and Freely Convert Documents into PDFs
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Even though websites like Scribd and Issuu seem intent on killing the PDF by rolling outfeatures that transform all the document-download links on a site into documents that can beviewed inside a browser window, PDFs remain a sought after file format. If you wish toconvert documents into PDFs without spending a dime, you can accomplish this easily by usinga number of free tools. Here's a look at five of the free desktop and cloud-based marketleaders:1.)Bullzip PDF PrinterBullzip PDF Printer caters to people who want to convert Microsoft applications to PDFs. It actslike a special printer, meaning that if you want to turn a document into a PDF all you have todo is go to your file menu and select print. The Bullzip PDF printer will be listed alongside yourother printers. Right out of the box, Bullzip PDF is loaded with a slew of useful features, suchas the ability to adjust the quality setting of the PDF, password protect the file, and add or editwatermarks.2.)Cute PDFThis program also installs itself as a printer in Windows, and since it installs itself as a printer"subsystem," nearly every Windows application can be used to create professionally-lookingPDF documents. Cute PDF won many votes of confidence by not automatically addingwatermarks to the final PDF file (unlike many of its skeevy competitors), and it's alsocompletely devoid of advertisements. This software recently added support for both 32-bit and64-bit Windows Vista.3.)PDF 24PDF 24 is a nifty Wordpress plugin that gives your blog readers the ability to email a PDFversion of your posts to their friends or to themselves. By placing a tiny email address formunderneath your blog posts, readers can now convert your posts to PDFs in the push of abutton.4.)Open OfficeOpen Office by Sun Microsystems is a multi-platform, open-source office suite with a host of features including a PDF creator. To save a document as a PDF, all you have to do is go to Fileand then hit "Export as PDF." In the same vein as Bullzip PDF, Open Office gives you theability to adjust the quality of your PDFs. By default, the image output is set to 90%, butmany prefer to punch it up to 100%. You can even adjust the security settings of the documentby turning off the ability to modify the content of the file and disabling copying. These securityfeatures put Open Office a step above cloud solutions like Zoho Writer and Google Docs.Neither at present gives users the ability to alter the security settings of an exported PDF.5.) Mac OS X built-in PDF convertor.I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Macs come equipped with a built-in PDF convertor(Windows 7 allegedlly will have one as well). This convertor makes turning documents intoPDFs on the fly as simple as pie. To do so, follow these instructions:In OS X 10.4 or later:Choose File -> Print.Click on the PDF button in the bottom left of the “Print” Screen.Select the option Save as PDF…In OS X 10.3 or earlier:Open the document you wish to convert to PDF in the native Mac OS X application.Choose File -> Print, and continue:Choose Save As PDF (Mac OS X v10.2.x), or click Preview and do one of thefollowing (Mac OS X v10.1.x):If Acrobat opens the preview, choose File -> Save As, and then choose Adobe PDF
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