Whenever you go to print, you may have noticed an option called "Microsoft XPS Document Writer" as a printer option. This is something that appears in XP, Vista and 7. XPS is Open XML Paper Specification; a document technology developed by Microsoft. If is not PDF, although it does act like PDF does. XPS is classified as an international...

PCMech reader, Mary, wrote in via our tip form with the following: I like to keep things “in house”…still don’t feel comfortable throwing much info/docuements/photos out to web sites but I have found this neat site (makeuseof.com) titled CreatePDF (http://www.createpdf.in/) It is wonderful if you want to print a website in PDF and for the...

Portable Document Format, which you know as PDF, is just as much of an established standard as Microsoft Word’s DOC concerning documents. What makes PDFs great is that what you see in a PDF reader is exactly what will print out on paper, and that they look exactly the same no matter what operating system you’re using (even on mobile OSes). The...

Recently, I have been reading a lot about a relatively new PDF reader product, Nitro PDF, so I decided to give it a try. After about a week of usage, I am pretty impressed. In fact, I have uninstalled SumatraPDF and CutePDF writer from my system and solely use Nitro PDF. This free product boasts an impressive list of features which most free readers do not...

If you very seldom have the need to print to PDF or do not want to install a PDF printer then using an online PDF converter is really your only option. While I would highly recommend a PDF printer, when this is not an option PDF Converter will do the job. Usage is simple: just upload a file, provide your email and then the resulting PDF file is emailed to you....

The Portable Document Format, which you know simply as PDF, is in fact a very good format for documents mainly due to four facts:They’re usually significantly smaller compared to a DOC (especially if there are images within). They look exactly the same no matter what OS you use. It is true WYSIWYG concerning printers. What you see on screen is...

People save web pages to ensure they can retrieve information later without having to load it on the internet. It also is a way of retrieving a web page just in case the original web site has an outage or goes offline for whatever reason. There are two basic ways of saving web pages, that being via the browser or "printing it" to a PDF. Via the...

I have posted about several tools to create PDF files, so today here is a tool to help you manipulate them. PDF Split and Merge is an open source program which does exactly as its name says:split your pdf documents (into chapters, single pages, etc.). merge many pdf documents or subsections of them. extract sections of your document into a single pdf...

It seems like in the past couple of weeks a lot of security risks are popping up. So to add to the list, I read about a critical security risk with Adobe Reader versions 8.1.2 and lower (this exploit is not applicable to version 9). The vunerability comes from the use of JavaScript inside the PDF file: Engineers from CoreLabs determined that Adobe Reader could...

A feature of the OpenOffice Writer word processing application is the ability to easily export a document as a PDF. This is built-in to the software. There may be times you will want to set security permission on the exported PDF to prevent printing or modification of the document itself (such as when sending contract agreements to clients where the document...

Recently I had to reinstall Windows XP on my laptop and had to view a PDF but didn’t feel like installing the Adobe software. As most people know, the PDF viewer from Adobe is huge, clunky in operation and a huge memory sucker. Furthermore the modern variant of the software does that "view inside the browser" crapola which is extremely...

One of the easiest ways to make money on the internet is to write electronic documents (i.e. a PDFs) and post them for sale. These documents could be about whatever you know. They can be short or long but longer is obviously better. However you don’t want to put a whole bunch of time and effort into writing something only to get a few sales and nothing...

I made an interesting discovery today when I was exporting some Word Documents to PDF. I had previously been using the PDF printer installed on my machine (CutePDF), but this time I used the Microsoft Save add-in to save the document as a PDF. I found the Microsoft add-in worked much better. Not only was the file saved to PDF faster, but the file size was...

Some have found Adobe Reader to be annoying, bloated, and just a plain pain in the rear. There are alternatives like FoxIt, but if you want to abolish PDF readers all together and still be able to look at the occasional PDF, here’s a nifty service called PDFMENOT. This service allows you to either view PDFs that are linked somewhere on the web, or upload...