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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, [...]
Read your docs out loud with SpokenText
Have difficulty seeing the screen, or maybe just sore eyes — heck, you might even want to make your own audiobooks — well, SpokenText has got all the answers (well, many of them so it seems) with its mostly free service for converting documents into audio recordings.
You can record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint, RSS [...]
PDF resources (news, forums, blogs)
I just posted a semi-comprehensive list of all of the the websites devoted to PDF over at 4xPDF. It includes news sites, forums and blogs. If you’re interested, click on the below link.
Wanna hear more about PDF?
PDF, PDF, PDF and guess what?? …. PDF
Heads up! For those amongst you who can’t go a day without finding out the latest and greatest in the world of PDF — we’ve started a new blog running which caters only for those with a penchant for PDF.
You can find it here: 4xPDF - PDF News, Articles, Tips and Rants
Check it out — you won’t [...]
Pear Note: not a bad apple here…
Useful Fruit software, a relatively new company run by Chad Sellers, a former system-level security developer who worked in the Linux environment — has just released their Mac-based software, Pear Note — which is designed “… to help users take and understand notes”.
In detail, Useful Fruit say that:
Pear Note records audio and/or video while you take your [...]
Acrobat 9 an “emergence into adulthood”
Back in November 2006, Thad McIlroy, publishing consultant and analyst from The Future of Publishing sent a scathing letter to the Planet PDF Editor, Dan Shea:
I think that Acrobat 8 is one of the weakest upgrades I’ve seen in years. Adobe is apparently angry with me for saying so, but that’s just Adobe getting all imperial, [...]
Upcoming seminar - PDF & Flash
Drum roll please!
On Wednesday, September 17, 2008, The Acrobat User Community Team will be hosting an eSeminar on how to drop a flash file inside a PDF without the need for any additional media players.
It’s an interactive 75-min eSeminar, sign up here, get some popcorn, an ice-cream and come along!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
10:00 am US Pacific / 1:00 pm [...]
Rosebud acquires a patent*
Rosebud PLM has moved to the next level with its WYSIWYG collaboration tool, Rosebud, based around Adobe PDF.
They announce that:
…”our unique method of collaboration on the Web — ‘Method and Software for enabling N-way collaboration work over the network for computers’ is officially designated as ‘patent pending’.”
and that….
Rosebud enables full lifecycle document review [...]
Spread the word…
We’re always interested to hear about new developments in digital documents whether they be online, offline, xps, flash, pdf, or in fact, anything at all — even a notepad text file, if you’ve got a cool way of using it.
Our number one concern is sharing the knowledge — so if you’ve got something worth [...]
What’s going on with XPS?
In 2006 Microsoft revealed XPS (codenamed “Metro”) to the world, it’s an an XML based final-form-file-format (try saying that 3 times in a row), with similar goals to PDF.
They included a XPS writer and viewer in Windows Vista, a Save to XPS add-on for Office 2007, as well using it as the internal Vista print [...]
Re-riding the bullet and Planet eBook
As a follow on from my previous post, for those interested in PDF-based eBooks, I should draw your attention to the free books site Planet eBook — a site I co-founded with Planet PDF.
Whilst it’s now dedicated to to publishing a variety of classics — as unlocked free ebooks (and if requested, will hunt [...]
