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How to make PDFs for absolutely nothing!
Interested in a list of all of the PDF creation and generation software that you can download and install totally free of charge? And when we say free, we mean that there’s no annoying watermarks, headers, footers built into the software — nada.
Just straight up PDF.
It’s on our sister site — 4xPDF on our constantly updated page, [...]
Sony Reader Guide to create PDF files for the Reader
Sony have released a 43 page guide on how to best create PDF files for the Sony Reader. Topics include:
Creating PDFs from Word Processing Documents
Creating PDFs from Presentations
Creating PDFs from Professional Layout Applications
The Sony Reader guide for creating optimized PDF content can be downloaded from here.
Firefox add-on ‘pdf download 2.0′ goes primetime
Rowan reported back in late June that (very) popular PDF Download 2.0 Firefox add-on had hit beta, well, now after almost a month, its ready for center stage.
One of the main benefits it offers is the generation of active hyperlinks within the PDF — which has been a common complaint amongst other free online HTML [...]
Creating eBooks in a Flash
I’ve had a lot of questions over the past few days about how to create an ebook. A good place to start is this ebook by Adobe.
Summary:
“Creating eBooks that can be bought, downloaded, and viewed online has never been easier or more secure. In Adobe’s How to Create Adobe PDF eBooks, you’ll find the [...]
PDF, Acrobat, Camelot and Interchange Postscript
I’ve been in the PDF business for at least 12 years now — back in the early days when Acrobat had just one toolbar (wow, that was a while ago) — and when you had to pay for a PDF reader — $50 it was. Now of course, you can’t count the number of [...]
Nitro PDF releases Nitro PDF Professional 5.4
Nitro PDF Software have released version 5.4 of Nitro PDF Professional and it includes enhanced PDF forms, more accurate PDF to Word conversion and content editing, amongst other improvements. Read more:
Nitro PDF Professional available for immediate Free Download
An introduction to forms in Nitro Pro 5.4
Nitro PDF Professional 5.4 Release Enhances PDF Forms and Content Editing
Nitro [...]
Create PDFs on the Eee PC
The ASUS Eee PC comes with either Xandros or Windows XP installed by default. Since there is a ton of different ways to create PDFs on Windows XP (just search Google for ‘create pdfs free xp’), this post will just focus on creating PDFs on Xandros.
In this tutorial we are going to use CUPS-PDF to add print [...]
Native support for PDF in Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Microsoft have announced that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will include native support for PDF.
With the release of SP2 users will be able to save documents directly to PDF from within Office applications, without having to install any additional add-ons. This marks a return to Microsoft’s original plan for PDF support.
When planning for Office 2007 Microsoft [...]
Create PDFs from web pages using PrintPDF (a Firefox Add-on)
We’ve previously covered Loop for Firefox which allows you to “Upload, convert and combine your files to PDF from a tidy toolbar, without the conversion getting in the way of your Web browsing”.
But if you’re just looking for a Firefox add-on that helps you convert web pages to PDF then you should check out PrintPDF.
Currently [...]
Gutsy Gibbon installs PDF printer driver by default
I’ve just finished upgrading to Gutsy Gibbon, the latest release of Ubuntu, and I am very happy to find that a PDF printer driver is now installed by default. Previously I’ve covered some PDF creators that are available for Linux operating systems and have generally found that they are lacking in both functionality and numbers [...]
Creating PDFs on Linux
It’s easy enough to create PDFs on a Windows or Mac machine, but what about Linux? A quick search of the web will show you that Linux doesn’t have half the number of PDF creator options that Windows and Macs have, not even close, in fact your options on Linux are quite limited (which is [...]
