Create PDF’s for Free at PDFOnline

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Want to create files in a way that everyone with a computer can read them but no one can change them, like real paper? Want to do it for free? If this intersts you, then the Frual Techie has found something you don’t want to miss. Read on to find out about PDF’s.

PDF or Portable Document Format, is something you use every week, perhaps everyday, but may not be aware of it. It is, in some sense, the standard format by which electronic paper is distributed on the web. By Electronic paper I mean a format that is not alterable but deliverable electronically.

PDF was invented by a company named Adobe Systems. Their invention is part of a number of technologies that help make the web and the documents or content that makeup the web, readable by just about anyone in the world who wishes. But readability is only half the story. PDF makes documents placed on the web unalterable, meaning the author can put them on the web without fear of them being changed. This makes the web move accessible while at the same time protecting an author’s content.

I’m sure we’ve all read a document in PDF format. You click on it and “TaDa” a little popup comes up indicating you’re doing so and presto the doc pops up perfectly integrated in your browser or via launching of your PDF reader. If your certain you’ve never clicked a PDF before, click to the Nutrition Action Newsletter site and you’ll open up a nutrition article stored on their site as a PDF at this link HERE.

PDF’s allow organizations to share documentation with other companies in a form that is pretty much universally accepted, meaning, just about anyone can open a PDF version of a document you create. What are some uses?

1. To send brochures out
2. To send newsletters out
3. For final signed versions of legal documents (after having been scanned in).
4. For reprints of articles
5. For anything you want to send and have read but for which you want no changes made or even the content reused

With all this PDF goodness you have to wonder how you get the original document into PDF in the first place. Well there’s a few ways. One way is to buy such software from Adobe themselves. You can do that by clicking to the Adobe site at this link HERE. You could also use Open Office to write your documents in. They have a built in PDF generator in their software. You can click to Open Office at this link HERE. Finally you can use whatever tool you like today and then convert it into PDF for free. That’s right FREE.

The free tool to do that in is PDF Online. You can reach PDF Online at their site at this link HERE. We’ve been playing with this tool for about a month now and it has worked flawlessly. PDF Online is a tool that allows you to upload your documents to it, then it converts them to PDF and sends them back to you! We’ve found the tool to be flawless in execution taking everything we could throw at it. It’s really a great service and lets you get the goodness of PDF in an easy and painless way. Give it a try to share your documents worldwide!