This post is a little different from my usual posts since it’s more technology than teaching-related.
I’ve been accumulating links to PDF converters — online tools that allow you to easily convert any file into a PDF, and thought readers might find them helpful.
First, since, until recently, I didn’t really understand why I might want to convert a document to a PDF, here’s an article listing ten reasons Why To Convert Word To PDF.
Here are links to several online conversion tools:
Sue Waters, in the comments, reminds me that I forgot to include Zamzar. Thanks, Sue!
August 16, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I’d also include Zamzar since it converts to PDF and converts PDFs to Word documents (which is handy if you want to edit them).
August 17, 2008 at 9:52 am
For those using Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft has a FREE add-in for exporting Word, Powerpoint, etc. 2007 to PDF format.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F1FC413C-6D89-4F15-991B-63B07BA5F2E5&displaylang=en
September 10, 2008 at 2:12 am
OpenOffice comes with a ready-to-use convert to pdf option.