Go4Covert: A Good Online Service for PDF Conversions

Alena Baronava Special for TCC You must have experienced a good amount of frustration, when you have opened a file sent to you, only to fine gibberish splashed all over the page. Now imagine the seriousness of the situation, when you send your resume for a job interview, and all that the interviewer can see…

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An Excellent and (Free) PDF to MS Word Converter

© Ugur Akinci Here is an excellent PDF to MS Word converter that I’ve tried for two large documents, one 10 Megs and the other 25 Megs in size. Both documents were converted without a hitch. With other documents that had sophisticated visual design and formatting, the utility created some formatting issues (see below) but…

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6 Enterprise PDF Productivity Tools by Adobe Acrobat

Here are five non-free tools offered by Adobe Acrobat that may increase your productivity significantly if you have an enterprise-level office that churns out a lot of large-size technical documents, PDFs, forms, invoices, surveys, reports, etc. on a regular basis. Even though they are not free, they may prove to be cost efficient if you’re going to…

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How to Add a SEARCH Bookmark to a PDF Document

Usually a PDF document’s bookmarks are generated automatically by the “Distiller engine” based on the paragraph tags you define in the PDF configuration settings. These are usually based on standard tags like “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Chapter Title” etc. But what if you also wanted to add a SEARCH button to your bookmarks so that…

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How to Create a PDF Form with OpenOffice Writer

© Ugur Akinci Think of  OpenOffice Writer as the free equivalent of MS Word (free download at http://www.openoffice.org). Did you know that you can create perfect PDF forms by using nothing else but OO Writer? Here are the basic steps: (1) Launch your OO Writer and create a new document. (2) Select View > Toolbars…

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How to Fix a Font-Related PDF Generation (Printing) Problem

© Ugur Akinci Sometimes you will not be able to generate a PDF copy of a MS Word or Adobe FrameMaker technical document because of a font problem. More specifically, your PDF will not be generated because you have the “Rely on systems fonts only” setting turned on in your printer preferences. This will create…

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7 Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for Creating PDF

© 2011 Ugur Akinci Adobe Acrobat is an excellent software for generating PDF copies of technical documents. Once something is converted to PDF, you can view it on any OS platform in the same format. However, Acrobat is not a cheap software. That’s why you might want to have a look at these more affordable and/or open-source…

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