Acrobat/PDF
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General Acrobat/PDF Resource Sites - also see my plug-in reference.
Adobe offers
a thorough Resource
Center w/ tips and tutorials and hosts forums on Acrobat
and Reader.
Youblisher.com
is a free remotely hosted service which creates flip books from pdf files.
It's like having a real book.
The PDFZone is an all purpose resource; pdf tips, email lists and forums ...
Planet PDF is an overall resource; tips, news, tools, etc.
See the developer section.
Guru Lair - Acrobat library loaded with tips, techniques, tutorials, utilities; even two way page linking (pdf/html).
The PDF Research Companion w/many articles; see HTML/PDF comparison & the 'how-to' page.
About.Com has a series of PDF tutorials
, miscellaneous articles and news.
Acrobat 6 and 7 Features
PlanetPDF offers a range of articles on Acrobat 7; a first look, their take (w/ chart of new features), family feature matrix ...
PDFZone has a detailed review of Acrobat 7; CreativePro also offers a useful review of 7.
Acrobat 6 and accessibility from Adobe and now Acrobat 7 and accesibility - including how-to guides.
New features of Acrobat 7 Standard and Professional from Adobe.
ZD Net announces the release of Acrobat 7 and overviews the new features.
Creating PDFs - Other Options
OpenOffice offers PDF export without the need
for any additional third party software.
Leadtools
Eprint Pro converts between HTML and PDF.
PDF IT is a Firefox extension that allows easy conversion of webpages
to PDF.
PrintToPDF is
a shareware Macintosh printer driver that creates PDF files.
PrimoPDF is
a free product that creates PDF files. There is also PrimoOnline; a free
online service.
WIN2PDF, Jaws
PDFcreator, sector7g
PDFcreator, easyPDF,
Sonic
PDF creator and PDFmail -
low cost PDF creation tools, some with additional editing and manipulation
capabilities.
CutePDF Writer, pdf995, the NLM's DocMorph and MyMorph, PDF reDirect, PrimoPDF, Sourceforge's PDFcreator and WinPDF. are free PDF creators - some have pay versions w/additional features.
Adobe's subscription online
pdfmaker;
Try this free online service from pdf
online (gohtm and allPDF converter are now pdfonline); also a desktop
application is available.
Click to Convert tools
can create PDF or HTML from a variety of formats.
Tools for Conversion into other Formats and Extracting Elements from PDFs
About.Com article on extracting text and images from PDFs with tutorials.
Adobe has an online pdf-html converter (can be used on your own site), a converter that goes both ways and conversion to HTML or plain text via email.
Investech's Able2Extract converts
PDF tp Excel, Word, RTF, HTML effectively. The Pro version also
converts scanned PDFs.
Iceni Technology's Gemini converts PDF to HTML, RTF, image formats, text.
ABBYY PDF Transformer converts PDF to word, excel, html, text. Opens directly in desired app.($50)
Other conversion options include: Magellan and PDF Converter to HTML, Sourceforge html-pdf converter, various BCL Technologies tools, Freebird to image formats. Redwing extracts text and tables from PDFs. pdfMachine is a print driver that enables pdf creation; Tailor Made's Flatout converts autocad to pdf (& other formats); IDR's Storypad extraction tool.
HTMLDOC generates indexed HTML, Adobe PostScript, and PDF files from HTML. PDF-o-matic converts a single URL to PDF online.
PDF Utilities - either Extend Acrobat - or Acrobat Replacements
Adobe's Save as XML can save TAGGED PDF as HTML w/CSS; use the MakeAccessible plugin to create tagged PDF that is accessible and can saved as RTF.
ARTS tools include splitter and linking tools and additional STAMPING tools for acrobat; PDF Workshop is for file management.
PDFsoft has a family of plug-ins for form/database integration, easier ways to add content and meta data to PDFs and the like. There is an online hosting for PDF froms and a free boomark creation tool.
Appligent tools merge PDFs and FDFs, stamps multiple files, more; free plug-ins like a page reverser.
pdf995 is a comprehensive acrobat-like tool - pdfedit995 facilitates link creation - free with ads in browser;
low cost otherwise.
Impress from Mapsoft enables text to be added to a range of pages in a PDF file. Other plugins can mask sections of pages, change page sizes quickly, add PDF functions to pagemaker.
DTSearch spiders and searches PDF, HTML and XML collections; on the web or on a network.
ACRO Buttons is
a plug-in that creates toolbar buttons with enhanced functionality; PDFSPy extracts
attributes from a PDF file.
Specific Tricks/Issues
.PDFResearch How-To section
(under WWW) on linking to a specific PDF page with HTML.
Pdfwebsearch (pricey) enables
search of multiple pdfs online. Google now
can include PDFs in its index and ATOMZ can
search your PDF site.
Searchtools.Com
discusses PDF search and lists options.
PDF for Prepress from About.Com.
Transitioning your pdfs into a slide show.
Reduce PDF file size w/ PlanetPDF or PDF Enhancer or pdfCompressor or pdfShrink. Try Adobe for hints.
How to run Acrobat Reader
from a CD.
Here are other CD
autorun tools.
Adobe has tips for learning javaScript as it pertains to Acrobat; also see planetPDF for tutorials.
The first accessibility FAQ for 5.0. A Guide for creating accessible PDFs.
Abbyy's FineReader OCR will take PDF as input or output; will produce Word from PDF.
Adobe's Tips for putting PDFs online and troubleshooting PDFs that do not come up in the browser.
PDF vs. Postscript; how do they differ?
The PDF colorspace error and how to fix it.
Pagerecall provides powerful security tools such as different protection levels for different pages.
When a PDF doesn't appear in the browser window.
Acrobat/PDF Books - or see other pdf books at Amazon
"PDF Reference Version 1.6 (5th edition)" by
Adobe Systems, 2004.
"Adobe Acrobat 7 Pdf Bible",
Ted Padova, 2003.
"Adobe Acrobat 6 PDF for Dummies",
Greg Harvey, 2003.
"PDF Hacks",
Sid Stewart, O'Reilly, 2004 - tricks and tips.
