Saving files as PDF

brianjo — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:23:00 GMT

I caught a great article from Codswallop on PDF writers via Digg today. PDF can be useful for sharing documents with users who don't have Office installed, for archiving, or for when you want to print out something and you suddenly realize that your printer is out of ink.

I don't save files to PDF that often, but when I need to, I've got a couple of specific tools that I use that makes the process really simple.

Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

This utility lets you save files as PDF from within Office applications. This Office 2007 add-in lets you optimize your saved files for print or online use.

CutePDF

CutePDF comes in both freeware and a commercial versions. The freeware version is free for both personal and commercial use. The commercial version offers a list of great features and is currently priced at around $50.00 US.

If you use PDF a lot, you should also check out Sarah's post: Outlook 2007 Tip: Preview PDFs Automatically.

Full Text PDF Search Tool

sarahintampa — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:03:00 GMT

The Foxit PDF IFilter is "designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents & then quickly find text within these documents." Whether files, email attachments or database records, Foxit PDF IFilter helps you find the text you are looking for. The tools supports the following Microsoft products: Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and all other products based on Microsoft Search technology. If you download this to use with Vista's built-in search, you will need to rebuild the search index. To do this, open the Indexing Options dialog box from Control Panel, click the Advanced button, and then click "Rebuild." Thanks to Ed Bott's blog for this great tip!

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Saving files as PDF

Full Text PDF Search Tool