Word processor documents are for authoring, PDF documents are for sharing. It’s a fairly simple concept, to which even the developers of these Word Processors have cottoned on to. Yet there are still users who insist on sharing their Word processor documents with colleagues, colleagues who do not need to make changes to the document and are only reviewing them, in this authoring format, instead of converting these document into a file sharing format, like PDF.
Is there really any excuse for this given that most decent Word Processors include support for export to PDF? Here is …

The number of different ways to create PDFs is growing daily. A few years ago if you didn’t have Acrobat, your options for creating PDFs were quite limited, but today there are hundreds, if not thousands, of free and commercial PDF conversion utilities out there that will allow you to create all the PDFs that you could possibly desire. In this post I will list a number of different free online PDF converters.

PrimoPDF Online – Simply browse to the file to be converted on your machine and upload it for …

It’s an issue that causes heart palpation’s for new users of PDFs every day. You spend two hours primping and pruning your PDF document — editing a word here, adding a comment there — and then save your document and try to attach it to an email message only to discover that it’s file size has tripled and your email client won’t accept it. What the hell is this crap you scream!?
In a fit you shoot off an email to some forum in cyberspace, begging for help and …

I recently stumbled across a very insightful post by Max Wyss about “one of the little secrets of Acrobat since version 4″, which could be very useful for anyone who creates PDF forms for the web. Basically, if you create a PDF form for the web and you save the document with “Optimize for Fast Web View” turned on, then it has the opposite affect and actually makes the PDF form slower to load in a browser.
To find out the reason for this, read the full article here.

The release of Adobe Acrobat 8.1 has been announced by Lori DeFurio on her Adobe Blog. This minor release includes support for Windows Vista, Office 2007 and 64-bit Citrix and Windows environments. The update is apparently available as of today, but so far the check for updates function in my Acrobat installation hasn’t picked up anything.
There are no real surprises in this release, but there is a feature that might get some Outlook 2007 users excited. According to Lori:
“Now, when you open an email message in preview mode that has …

My dislike for viewing PDFs inside an Internet browser grows every time a website finds a way to automatically bypass the PDF Download add-on that I have installed for Firefox and loads inside my browser. Don’t get me wrong. I am a big fan of the PDF format and use it whenever I can — but I just don’t like to use it in a way that affects the usability of my browser. I prefer to download the PDFs to my desktop and open them at a time of my …