Make a PDF for free! Easy!

See if any of these situations sound familiar.

• You need to create a PDF, but don’t have the full version of Acrobat.
• You can’t take advantage of the Macintosh’s built-in PDF maker because you are running Windows.
• You are on a Mac and someone sends you a Microsoft Publisher file.
• Someone sends you a file that you don’t have the program to open it.

PDF Online could be your answer. PDF Online will let you upload a document and will convert it to a PDF and email it to you for free. It will convert the following formats:

• MS Word (DOC)
• HTML (MHT)
• MS Word (RTF)
• Text (TXT)
• MS PowerPoint (PPT)
• JPG, PNG
• MS PowerPoint (PPS)
• BMP, TIFF
• MS Publisher (PUB)
• WMF, EMF, GIF
• MS Excel (XLS)

After a little poking around on their site, I discovered a few other things they have:

1. A printer driver you can download to print to a PDF. It has a free trial period and only costs $14.95 for a single license. While it only works on Windows, that’s okay for Macintosh users too since they already have a PDF maker as part of the operating system.
2. Convert a PDF to Word. (FREE)
3. Add a button to your websites that will “Save page as PDF” for your visitors. You have to sign-up, but I think this is also a free service.
4. A (FREE) PDF service for your iphone or other handheld device. This allows you to send an email to a specific address with attached documents. The documents are converted to PDFs and then emailed back to you. And, if you don’t have an iphone – you can still email your docs and have them sent back as PDFs. Neat!

This is a pretty nice little tip to have in your toolbox of tricks. So, if you need convert a document to a PDF, check them out:

PDF Online – FRee PDF Services