PDFs & the Web
Search PDF content online
Previously we’ve covered online PDF search engine PDFoo.com, but now it appears that there are a number of other online PDF search engines appearing on the scene. A recent blog post, PDF Search Engines Begin to Emerge, from Investintech, talks about three other options:
Data-Sheet
Pdfgeni.com
pdf Search Engine
PDFoo.com
All of these search engines allow you to search PDF content online [...]
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 [...]
PDFescape - free online PDF editing tool
A number of online PDF editors are starting to emerge, and I believe it’s a trend that’s only going to continue, perhaps culminating in Adobe releasing a truly online version of Acrobat.
Previously we’ve looked at PDF Hammer and now we’re going to look at PDFescape. I found PDFescape generally pretty easy to use and the [...]
A PDF experts initial relections on Google Chrome
Long-time PDF expert Duff Johnson has shared some of his initial thoughts on Google’s new Chrome browser:
I had wondered if Google was going to (try to) write their own PDF viewer for Chrome. Not this time; the installer seems to find and use the Acrobat/Reader plugin, assuming it’s already installed into Firefox or (presumably) IE. That’s [...]
PDFHammer.com: free online PDF editor
There’s a few online services that offer free PDF creation, but there are barely any that offer free online PDF editing, like PDFHammer does. It allows you to merge PDF files together, reorder and delete pages, apply password-based security and add and edit document metadata fields like author, title, subject and keywords.
All from the comfort [...]
Convert web pages to PDF with Ubiquity
Mozilla Labs have just released Ubiquity, an experiment in using command-like calls to interact with web services. Users of the Google ‘command-line’ — if you don’t know what I’m talking about at this point type time in new york into Google — will most likely find this tool pretty useful. By the way, it’s a [...]
Publishing documents online
Over the past week we have blogged a little (here and here) about viewing documents online as Flash documents, instead of PDFs. Today I am going to look at a few of the online platforms that can be used to publish your documents online.
Scribd - Scribd is a document sharing website that claims to host over 350,000 [...]
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 [...]
PdfMeNot.com - a free online PDF viewer
If you’re sick of waiting for PDFs to load in your browser or downloading them to your desktop, then check out PdfMeNot.com. This site helps you to quickly view PDFs — without a PDF Reader insight — by converting the PDFs to Flash documents and then quickly displaying the result in your browser.
My first thought [...]
Convert web pages to PDF with one click using PDF Download 2.0
PDF Download 2.0 is now in beta. You can sign up for the beta program here. New features will include:
Web to PDF (new)
One-click web-to-PDF conversion, all while retaining the page layout and active hyperlinks. The full support for HTML and CSS creates great looking PDF files ideal for archiving, sharing and emailing.
Better PDF to HTML
Convert [...]
Google Docs now supports PDFs
Google Docs now includes support for PDFs. You can upload and share PDFs just like you can Word or Excel files. It also allows you to copy and search text in PDFs.
As you would expect, searching text in PDFs using Google Docs is lightening fast compared to Acrobat.
