PDFs can be a great way of displaying content to your users that doesn't necessarily need to be the centre-piece of your website.
However, once a PDF has been created they can be notoriously difficult to alter. This is where the folks over at Smallpdf.com come in - their website offers a number of PDF-related tools that will make your life so much easier.
Their suite of PDF tools consists of:
- Compressing your PDFs to a smaller, more web-friendly size
- PPT to PDF conversion
- PDF to PPT conversion
- JPG to PDF conversion
- PDF to JPG conversion
- Excel to PDF conversion
- PDF to Excel conversion
- Word to PDF conversion
- PDF to Word convesion
- Merging PDFs
- Splitting PDFs
- Rotate your PDFs
- Unlock a PDF
- Protect a PDF
All of these tools are available free of charge at www.smallpdf.com and can be a huge time sizer - it's a tool that Cosmic uses almost daily, especially the web team who handle a lot of PDFs which need to be altered for client websites. The website is incredibly simple to use and is a brilliant time-saver for any webmaster or developer.
Another free tool available where you can change documents to pdfs is through Adobe.
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