Monday, October 15, 2007

How to convert to PDF

Do you want to convert a Word, Spreadsheet or even a Web page to PDF?

If you do not have Adobe Professional, there are 2 alternative methods to do this:

1. Via an application at Google
First you need to have a Google account e.g. you have Google Gmail account. Then you use iGoogle.com and add the PDF converter. To convert the document, you upload it and hit Convert, the application will email you back the PDF version of your document.

2. Using PDFCreator
You go to PDF Forge and download their PDFCreator program. After you install it on your computer, you will have a new printer called PDFCreator. Anything you can print using a normal printer, you can send to PDFCreator. It will convert your document (including Web pages) to PDF and you can either email it or save it as a file.

This application works well most time. Only one time when I tried to convert a very long Web page to PDF, it converted only the first few pages.

My vote is with PDFCreator, I think they did an excellent job.

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