How to create professional PDFs for free
Posted on July 26, 2007
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1. Download and install OpenOffice.org (it’s a free software from Sun Microsystems).
2. Open OpenOffice.org Writer and create your file. For the sake of test, just copy contents of a web page (say, this page) into the text editor and save.
3. In the Writer’s menu, select File -> Export as PDF… and follow the instructions (it’s sufficient to point to a folder and enter a name for your new PDF file your content will be exported to).
Interesting notes:
- You may copy/paste web pages, Word documents, text files, etc. into OpenOffice.org Writer and save it as PDF.
- Your PDF s may include links and images.
- Table of contents will be generated automatically if your document includes hierarchical headers (like H1, H2, etc. HTML headers in a text copied from a web page).
- You may specify initial look of your PDFs people will see in Adobe Acrobat when they open your file: whether thumbnails are visible,if page fits the screen, etc.
- You may set protection for your file: encrypt it or restrict permissions.
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