Now You Can PDF

PDFs are important when it comes to accessibility across the various platforms. If you use Microsoft Word and your friend uses Corel WordPerfect, or Microsoft Works, you will not be able to send files to your friend. Well, you'll be able to, but she won't be able to open and read them. Sometimes they'll open halfway, but all you can see will be a bunch of gibberish.

Enter PDF. Almost every computer has Adobe Reader, which allows your computer to read PDFs. You can't convert a Word document, or an Excel spreadsheet to PDF unless you have a program to do it for you.

I purchased a program from Serif sometime back that will create PDFs. If I remember correctly it cost under $15 for the program plus shipping. I can't find it, hence my discovery earlier today.

Primo PDF - a free PDF creation tool. FREE. Just download, install and it acts like a printer. When you pull down the menu to print in your program, choose the printer you'd like to use, you will see that PrimoPDF has become of your choices.

If you don't want to mess with downloading, and you only need to convert a document into PDF on occasion, they also offer an PrimoOnline, Free Online Conversion to PDF.

Until next time.