Word Processor documents are for authoring, PDF documents are for sharing…

Posted by Rowan Hanna
June 27, 2007

Word processor documents are for authoring, PDF documents are for sharing. It’s a fairly simple concept, to which even the developers of these Word Processors have cottoned on to. Yet there are still users who insist on sharing their Word processor documents with colleagues, colleagues who do not need to make changes to the document and are only reviewing them, in this authoring format, instead of converting these document into a file sharing format, like PDF.

Is there really any excuse for this given that most decent Word Processors include support for export to PDF? Here is three well known Word Processors that support this much valued functionality.


Create PDFs, Free PDF stuff, Sharing Documents, Word Processors

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Comments
Comment by Stephen Jones on July 14, 2007 @ 10:41 am

Hello

I guess this goes for blogs / RSS feeds too, as you can share them offline via PDF, e.g. http://www.rss2.co.uk

Regards

Stephen Jones

Comment by bert m. drona on August 3, 2007 @ 4:13 pm

how can I add/attach a pdf on my blog so readers can download it? thanks

bert

Comment by Row on August 3, 2007 @ 10:53 pm

Hi bert,

I’ve written a new post that covers the issue that you’ve mentioned in your comment.

http://pdfblog.rowanhanna.com/2007/08/03/question-how-do-i-link-to-a-pdf-on-my-website-or-blog/

Does the blogging service that you use provide you with the facility to upload files for your posts?

- Row.

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