My 4 Favorite PDF Producing Programs (plus a few online options)
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Yesterday I posted about the glories of PDF documents and highlighted features you can easily leverage for your business. I also had a tiny rant about reader-friendly features going unused, and listed some folks who create PDFs that work all the best bits.
Today I’m on the coolest of cool things about Adobe’s PDFs, which is you don’t have to buy a pricey Adobe product to make them! There are stacks of free and affordable ways to create PDFs: downloadable desktop applications, online services, and as a feature in programs we already use.
Here are the 4 programs I use to make PDFs, plus some online options: Read more
Adobe’s PDF (Portable Document Format) files are an author’s BFF, and for good reasons. PDF documents:
- Can be secured against editing, copying, and printing
- Maintain the appearance of the original document
- Can be optimized for small file size
- Can be read on any (maybe every) computing platform and operating system with Adobe’s free Acrobat Reader
- Have reader-friendly features such as hyperlinks, text search, bookmarks, and various viewing and navigation options
I’m a bookworm from wayyyy back, but in many ways I believe PDFs are better than paper, with some clear advantages for business use: Read more
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