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Billboard Benefits - Mart Gil Abareta
Billboards have become an important part of business marketing. It has turned out to be an effective means of advertising a company’s products and services. It has also been widely used by television networks and movie producers in the promotion of...
Make Time For Family - Terri Seymour
As I sit here thinking about my two boys, Jesse who is 16 and heading to college next fall and Dustin, my baby, who is almost as tall as I am, I realize that no matter what happens in our lives we have to make time for the most important thing that...
Protecting Your Inventions--http://www.newideatrade.com/inventions.htm - Neil Armand
The intellectual property transfer market is now estimated to be worth over $100 billion. If you have a new idea, a patent or an invention, you may be able to license it or sell it for millions of dollars. Many Fortune 500 companies are now making...
"Employer of Choice" - Just Another Buzzword? - Harry K Jones
There's a certain point in your business life where buzzwords become a nonentity. You've heard them all a million times. They soon mean nothing and actually become an annoyance. The list is endless ... quality, empowerment, walk-the-talk, open-book...
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How to Create Cheap PDFs
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Written By:
Kane Deng
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*Introduction
Do you want to create your PDF ebooks? PDF is the industry publishing standard, and most of ebook authors are using PDF as their ebooks publishing format. But the problem is - the commercial tools, which can be used to create PDF documents, are very expensive, and this is a heavy burden for most ebook authoring starters.
Now good news is - there are a few ways to create Adobe Acrobat PDF files without having to spend a lot of money…
*Cheap PDF tools
Microsoft Office doesn’t come with built-in PDF support, so if you want to convert an Office document into PDF you have to purchase Adobe Acrobat, use an online conversion site, or download and install a special program or printer driver. You can learn more about this at
http://www.aexx.net/Arcane/doctopdf/
Unlike Microsoft Office, Corel’s Word Perfect Office DOES support PDF creation straight out of the box. You can download a 30 day evaluation copy of Word Perfect at
http://corel.com
Of course, what started this whole journey into PDF-land was a desire on my part to create PDFs cheaply. So buying a whole new office suite, even if that suite doesn’t carry the Microsoft logo, kind of defeats the purpose. There is a different suggestion: use OpenOffice. OpenOffice comes with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and a drawing program. The latest version of OpenOffice – OpenOffice 1.1 – even comes with PDF and Macromedia Flash export.
Oh, and OpenOffice is completely free. You can download it at
http://www.openoffice.org
If downloading and installing a whole new office suite doesn’t sound too appetizing, fear not. There are many other PDF tools we - continued below ...
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recommend!
For online document conversion (a la Adobe’s createpdf.adobe.com), we recommend goBCL at
http://www.gobcl.com
and an entirely different Carnegie Mellon’s TOM Server at
http://wheel.compose.cs.cmu.edu:8001/cgi-bin/browse/objweb
Both services appear to be free, but Carnegie Mellon’s can be a bit flaky at times.
If you have Postscript files that you would like to convert to PDFs online, we recommend PS2PDF at
http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert/index.htm
If you’d rather download and install a PDF converter on your computer, you have a BUNCH of options. There is a free converter called “Gymnast” at
http://www.oakworth.demon.co.uk/gymnast.htm
The registration code is in the yellow box at the top of the page.
And, if you’re willing to ditch Windows together [or partition your computer so that you can run multiple operating systems], you can try Mandrake Linux 9.1, it comes with a built-in PDF printer driver. Other flavors of *nix may offer the same features. Check around.
*References
Links to PDF Resources:
http://www.geeyo.com/docs/pdf_resources.html
Kane Deng
Bring to you valuable & fresh information on Internet business, and let you keep up with all the latest major Net business opportunities.
http://www.geeyo.com/ezines.html
kane@geeyo.com
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Managers: Why Not PR Like This? - Robert A Kelly
I mean public relations that presumes from the get-go that the right message, strategy and communications tactics can change perceptions among each of your business, non- profit or association audiences. And do so in a way that produces the...
Do You Have an Exclusive Market Segment? - Robert A Kelly
You do if you’re a business, non-profit or association manager with important external stakeholders whose behaviors affect your department, division or subsidiary the most. In your own best interests, here’s what you’d better be doing about...
All Successful Entrepreneurs Do This - John Baker
Everyone wants to make money! Some want to make money by owning their own business. All successful entrepreneurs have the self discipline to build their business. Most of us have heard the saying "you need money to make money". Basically what...
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