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Bundle Multiple JPEG Images As A PDF Album With JPGasPDF

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If there's one problem with picture albums, they are comprised of multiple files and between transferring them or editing their copies, one can end up missing out on a few. While there is still no standard or universal format for photo albums, PDF files support image content and can be perfect for the purpose, since most of us have access to PDF viewers on our computers and mobile devices. Though not many of us would want to use a PDF editor just for this purpose. Fret not - compiling your JPG/JPEG images into PDF albums is now as easy as it gets, thanks to the quick and nimble JPGasPNG. Although I would've liked to see a couple more options included, such as support for other popular image formats such as PNG (after automatic conversion to JPG to keep the file size in check), the software is quite flawless in its execution, and leaves little to gripe about. Not convinced? Take a closer look after the jump. Read More

Create, Edit, Convert PDF Files & Export As EXEs With PDFCool

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We have covered plenty of PDF editors for desktop, web and mobile platforms like PDFzen for Windows, Web, iOS and Mac OS X that allowed editing and sharing PDF files in a collaborative manner. PDF Mod was a another comprehensive option for Linux. In a nutshell, there are many PDF tools out there, all offering their own feature-sets and functionality. Should you be looking for another one to try out, give PDFCool PDF Editor a go. It’s a free PDF viewer and editor for Windows that bundles a variety of PDF-related tools in the package. Read More

Batch Compress PDF Files, Set Custom DPI & Remove Select Elements

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Saving document files in PDF does make sense, because it is generally more secure against unintended modifications compared to other formats such as TXT, RTF, DOCX and more. Therefore, many of us rely on PDF these days when it comes to sharing files that contain sensitive information. One drawback of this is that PDF files are often larger in size compared to many other document formats. If you require to send a document through a channel that has certain file size limitations, you probably want to keep your files as compact as possible. Previously, we've covered some really useful PDF compression tools such as PDF Compressor, PocoDoc or Nice PDF Compressor. If you've already tried those and are looking for something more effective at compression, ORPALIS PDF Reducer Free is yet another option with a decent output quality and batch processing mode. Read More

Batch-Convert PDFs To RTF & Extract Their Elements With PDF Shaper

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PDF is one of the most convenient and secure ways of distributing documents that will always render and print with the same formatting of your choice, and others won't be able to easily modify them. Given such advantages along with the ability to password-protect PDF files, the format is widely used when it comes to sending confidential or important documents via emails attachments, file sharing sites, and through other file transfer mediums. However, at times we do encounter situations when we require to convert a file in to another format such as TXT, DOCX or RTF for the sake of making changes or extracting certain objects from the file. We have covered plenty of PDF converters in the past like 7-PDF Website Converter, PDF24, PDF To Word Converter, Doxillion Document Converter, just to name a few. If you’re looking for a PDF converter that can specifically convert files to RTF, PDF Shaper has the answer. Not only is it capable of converting a full PDF file or selected pages from it, but can also convert a batch of files in one go. Read More

Save Webpages As PDFs With Selectable Text In Safari For iOS

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The Cydia store has a handful of tweaks that let users cache Safari content for offline viewing. You can even find one or two that convert webpages into PDF files, which can be read and exported in a variety of ways. The new PDF Printer for Safari, however, is at the pinnacle of this genre of tweaks. Don’t be confused by the name, as it doesn’t have much to do with printing. The biggest edge PDF Printer enjoys over its competitors is its ability to refrain from rasterizing text on the page, so that you can copy and edit it with ease from the generated PDF document. Another great thing about the tweak is its support for various apps. In fact just about every app installed on your iPhone that can handle PDFs is listed in PDF Printer’s ‘Open With’ menu. Read More

Save Web Pages As PDF To Hard Disk Or Google Drive & Fax Them In Chrome

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When Google introduced Google Cloud Print, it added a really great tool for sharing a printer and perhaps made a lot of lives easier in the process. The Chrome print dialog is well equipped with options, providing you with a preview of the document you want to print, allowing you to choose which pages to print, and letting you change the layout and margins of your document. If you never ventured to the Google print page because you don’t have a cloud printer set up, here are three other things you can do with it that might make you visit it more often. The print dialog allows you to not just print with a cloud printer but also a network printer and should your printer double as a fax machine, you can fax documents from Chrome’s print dialog as well. You can also save a web page as a PDF, and even connect Chrome with your Google Drive for saving web pages directly to it. Intrigued? This post details exactly how you can do each. Read More

Batch Compress PDFs To Reduce Size Without Loss Of Quality

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If your common method of sharing PDF files is through email, or any other internet-dependent medium, it is important that the documents are small in size. The purpose of any compression app is to reduce the size of the file without bringing down its quality, but unfortunately, many do bring down the quality while compressing. If you are looking for a way to reduce the size of your PDF documents without decline in noticeable quality loss, you are in luck. PDF Compressor is a brand new Windows app that allows you to compress your PDF documents and reduce their file size. The app is capable of processing thousands of PDF files at one time in batch mode, according to the developer. The best part about the app that it's touch enabled, which means you can use it easily on a Windows 8 Pro tablet. The simple interface ensures there is absolutely no learning curve for common users. Read More

Sony’s Reader App Brings An Alternative eBook Store & Viewer To iPhone & iPad

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I won’t pretend that until this morning I even had a clue Sony is into the eBook business, but now that I have taken a look at the online Reader store, I have to say that it is good enough to give any similar service a run for its money. The web version of the service has been around for quite a while, the Android app was released a while back, and now, the official Sony Reader client has come to iPhone and iPad. The universal app can be used to manage all the purchases made from the Reader Store, but if you aren’t interested in that, Reader for iOS can prove to be a pretty good eBook and PDF viewer for books you already have from other sources. The app has a slick interface, and can really hold its own against iBooks in terms of features. Read More

[Giveaway] PDF PROvider For iPad: Convert Photos, Webpages & Documents To PDF Documents

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Most professional documents are stored as PDF files, because of the fact that the chances of accidentally altering the text and other content of the file are really slim. An iPad is used by a lot of people for business purposes, and that makes PDF files and iPad a good combination. Maybe that is why there are a lot of iOS apps dealing with PDFs, and most of them are really popular with iPad users. Despite all the competition from similar apps, PDF PROvider is surely among the most comprehensive PDF-related apps for the iPad. The app lets its users create PDF files out of webpages, images, maps and Dropbox documents. Not only is it a good PDF converter, it is also perfect for viewing PDFs, as the viewer in PDF PROvider lets you add annotations, stamps, text and illustrations to files. In addition to all that, PDF PROvider has the option to append existing files with content from sources you find at a later time. Read More

PDFrizator: Create Animated PDF Presentations With Background Music

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To maintain the presentation composition on multiple platforms and systems, you may want to use the PDF version of the original file. This is useful for printing purposes, but for presenting you have to sacrifice the transitions and effects not supported in PDF. PDFrizator makes up for this drawback by allowing you to add effects like page transitions and background music to create attractive PDF presentations. This can be achieved either by importing any PDF or a set of images that will be saved in the PDF format. With a powerful file explorer supporting both local and internet browsing capability from audio and image search engines like Picasa, Flickr, Twitpic, Bing Images (plus Windows Azure Marketplace), SoundCloud and Google Images, PDFrizator allows you to make the most of useful information around you. In addition, you can convert multiple image formats (like gif, jpg, png) and comic books (in cbr, cbz formats) to PDF using this tool. Read More

Free PDF Image Extractor Lets You Save Images From Multiple PDF Files

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While working extensively with PDF files, we often need to extract high quality images from the PDFs for creating separate documentation in other formats. Earlier, we have covered Fusion PDF Image Creator for Windows and PDF Toolkit for Mac OS X, whereby the former only supports image extraction from a single PDF file and the latter provides numerous PDF manipulation features, but limited only to Mac OS X platform. Although, it takes up a lot of time in extracting images from PDFs manually, you can save more time if a large number of PDF files could be automatically converted and saved in respective folders. Today we discovered Free PDF Image Extractor, which allows you to effortlessly extract images from multiple PDF files and automatically organize them for the better. Read More

PDF Toolkit: Compress PDFs, Extract Text And Images In Different Sizes [Mac]

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Feature rich free PDF tools and/or editors are hard to come by. PDF is one of the most common formats for viewing image rich documents on a slew of devices and that leaves you with little choice except to pay up for a halfway decent PDF tool or use several free alternative apps instead of a single one. PDF Toolkit is a PDF editing app for Mac that normally costs $4.99 but is free this month (makes you love Summer, doesn’t it?). PDF Toolkit isn’t for editing a PDF file i.e., you cannot add or remove text and images from a file. What you can do is merge multiple PDFs into a single file. Unlike free tools that only let you merge 2 files into one, PDF Toolkit gives you the freedom to merge as many files as you want. It can extract pages from a file, either in order or as per user specifications and create a new PDF from the extracted pages. Additionally, you can extract text and images from a file and compress it on four different standards to reduce the size. Note that this compression does not mean adding it to a zipped file, compression with PDF Toolkit is different and discussed in detail below. Read More

Digitally Sign A PDF Document Using Mac Preview & Your Webcam [Tip]

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Electronically signing a document is much easier and faster than printing it out, signing it with a pen and then scanning and emailing it. Normally, you would go looking for an app that, in addition to editing a PDF, also supports adding signatures. While you can dish out some bucks and grab such apps from Mac App Store, if you just need a method for adding digital signature, there is already a built-in way to do it in OS X Lion. Preview in Mac is more than just an app for opening files; as covered in earlier tips, it does much more, such as taking screenshots and adding e-signatures to PDFs. All you need is a good webcam - possibly a high quality one - and adding a signature is only a matter of a few clicks. Read More

ManualsLib: A Massive Library To Find & Download Any Product’s Manual [Web]

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If you recently bought a product and misplaced it’s manual, finding it online can be really easy with ManualsLib. This handy web application can help you save both time and effort as you browse the web to find a particular manual. ManualsLib’s database has a massive collection of PDF files for all types of products, and has a slick interface, with Popular and Last Search categories. The service is quite easy-to-use; all you have to do is enter your query in the search field and quickly find what you're looking for. Search results include product's name, description, model number, date, size and number of pages. Once you’ve found the manual you're looking for, you can either read it online or download it to your local system. Moreover, these documents can be shared on various social media websites, like Facebook and Twitter. More after the jump. Read More

PDF Presenter Lets You Annotate PDFs & Present Them As Slideshows

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Most of the people rely on MS PointPoint for making slideshow presentations. However, even though it lets you insert PDF documents into your slideshows, native Adobe PDF reader like support still seems  unlikely. If you're looking for a free application that let you present your PDF documents in an MS PowerPoint-like presentation, then you should give PDF Presenter a shot. It is an open-source, java-based utility, designed to let you display PDF documents the same way you’d present PPT (or PPTX) slideshows. Not only that, but you can also annotate your documents with an integrated Pen, Marker and Text Box tool. In addition, it provides you with an option to view your PDF documents (or a Whiteboard) in full screen mode. This feature can be used in countless situations, for instance, whether you’re demonstrating a class lecture or compelling your boss to accept a lucrative business deal. The tool is quite easy to use and contains an elegant user-interface design, with support for both mouse and pen input. Keep reading for more details. Read More

Air Projector: View iPhone Photos & PDF Files In Any Desktop Web Browser Over WiFi

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Getting photos out of your iPhone is a fairly easy task. You don’t even need to launch iTunes to access your images. Nevertheless, you still have to use a cable, which is why there are still plenty of apps that make this task even easier. Air Projector is an iOS app that serves a similar purpose, but not just for extracting images. Using Air Projector, it is possible to display photos and PDF documents on any desktop computer without even transferring the data to it first. The app streams your media and documents to a web browser of your choice. The app doesn't even need a desktop client as everything is done over Wi-Fi and HTTP. Read More

PDF Reader Pro Is One Of The Most Comprehensive Document Viewers For iPhone & iPad

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An iOS app that handles PDF files might not sound like something too exciting, but PDF Reader Pro has so much more to offer. The app lets you view PDF files on your iPhone or iPad, but that’s not all it does. It rises above the crowd owing to the staggeringly large number of additional features it has on offer and is undoubtedly one of the best if its kind out there. PDF Reader can handle images, videos, HTML, iWorks files, common document formats and, of course, PDFs. Most of the formats compatible with the app can be converted to PDF with a single tap, regardless of the file’s size. In addition to all this, PDF Reader Pro comes with some amazing sharing options, and you can get files in and out of the app over WiFi, via email, iCloud or just about any other cloud service you can possibly think of. The app’s reader is sleek, and comes with a lot of options to improve your reading experience. Read More

FlipPDF To WORD: Convert PDF To DOC In Bulk Or via Hot Directories

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The PDF document content can not be altered very easily that is why it's considered to be one of the safest ways of sharing documents, among your clients, coworkers and other associates. Sometimes however, we need to convert a PDF file back to an editable format such as TXT, RTF, DOC(X) etc., in order to make a few changes to the document. FlipPDF To WORD provides this facility and does the job in an efficient manner. The application enables you to convert multiple PDF documents into DOC (MS Word) format, in one go. Aside from the typical conversion, the application also provides Hot Directories Mode, which automatically converts PDF files to DOC format as soon as you place a PDF file in a specified folder. In contrast to the GUI, it also comes with a CLI mode to quickly perform PDF to Word conversions from within the Windows CMD utility. More details after the jump, containing screenshots. Read More

Convert PDF Documents To SWF In Bulk Using 3DPageFlip PDF to Flash

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Just a few days back, we featured 3DPageFlip’s PDF to HTML converter. The program, along with CLI (Command line-interface) mode, lets you perform PDF to HTML conversion using a simple GUI-based Batch Mode. Recently, we came across another application from the same developer, called 3DPageFlip PDF to Flash. It offers somewhat similar PDF conversion options, but instead of converting PDF documents into HTML files, this particular application converts PDF file into the SWF format. It may come handy in situations where you need to convert multiple PDF document into SWF files and embed them into HTML pages. The program includes three different conversion modes, namely Batch Convert Mode, Hot Directories Mode and Command Line Mode. Read past the jump for details. Read More

The Faculty Project Offers Free Online Courses From The Best Professors In The World [Web]

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The Faculty Project is a useful web application that provides virtual access to the best professors from around the world, right on your desktop computer or mobile devices. The service offers students with free courses, alongside an option for enrollment. Included in the offering are lectures from some renowned institutions, such as Northwestern University, Dartmouth College, University of Southern California and more. The courses are conducted through Udemy's platform of video, slides, and PDFs. Moreover, the courses offered encompass across diverse fields, like history, economics, anthropology, and so on. Read More