Today PDF is one of the most popular multi-platform formats that are widely used in printing, website development and book archives. Using PDF, you can create your own documents and distribute them on the Internet, having previously protected the files from copying. You can write PDF documents in several ways: create them in the mode, or use paid editors for files of the required format.
Write PDF file online
To write documents in PDF format online, it is better to use the Google Docs service. Sign up with Google and follow these steps:
1) Open Google Docs service.
2) Place the columns, upload images and text of your document in the field of the online office.
3) Print the document in PDF format (Print to PDF option) or save it to your PC.
If you need to convert a ready-made Word document to PDF, you can use free online converters for this. There is no shortage of them today. Just enter the phrase "PDF converters" in the search bar and follow any link.
PDF recording with dedicated software
You can also create PDF files in the paid text editor MS Office 2007, as well as in later versions of this program. MS Office allows you to save both text documents and presentations to PDF. To convert any document to PDF, open the File menu, select Save As, and then select the desired format.
There are also special programs for writing and creating PDF files: HelpCruiser, Bullzip PDF Writer, PDF Writer, CutePDF, TinyPDF, PDFCreator, etc. Bullzip PDF Writer and PDFCreator have certain advantages among them. In these programs, you can add watermarks, edit metadata, and create password-protected files. In the process, you can use 40 and 128-bit file encryption. The rest of the programs belong to the category of simpler applications for creating and converting PDF documents. They have a small installer size and perform basic functions for creating PDF documents.
To print text, images or tables in PDF format, use special PDF printers (for example, doPDF). These are free programs that you can easily download to your computer. After installing the program on your PC, press the Ctrl + P keys and select a printer from the list provided.
All of the above applications will help you easily and quickly burn or convert any documents to PDF format. Most of these programs are freely available, but some services and applications will need to be purchased for a moderate fee.
I would like to share a new fashion from my university (Universidad de Barcelona - Spain). There are 70+ people in our group. Learning to be a Computer Engineer. The first year everyone went with papers, notebooks, notepads ... But when I saw the method of teaching the lesson of most teachers (presentation from the spotlight), I decided to take my laptop with me and found a note program for pdf format. It is in this format that teachers give us material. After a couple of classmates saw this program from me, every day the number of laptops in pairs began to increase. Even some teachers began to use it by poisoning us with reports on work with annotations of this program.
So, PDF-XChange Viewer... The program allows fine tuning and includes a huge set of necessary functions about which you can read about on the off-site in the Feature List section.
What I like the most:
What is the convenience?
And the fact is that everything is done quickly and it is possible, while the teacher is showing the same document on the spotlight, to take notes on the fly exactly in those places where the teacher points with his laser pointer.
If everything is customized, here is my example of some commands:
Then you can reduce the time for selecting a function with the mouse and returning to the document.
How do I get to these settings?
Right-click on one of the panels, unlock if locked, and press the right button again to select "Configure". Then go to the "Commands" tab.
And here's how it all looks:
Original:
With notes:
General form:
Yes, I forgot to say, all settings can be exported and imported. In the latest versions of the program, there is an OCR function.
UPD: for OSX there is an alternative: Skim
In PDF Professional, you can create a comment report and print the PDF document with it. Comments include notes, text boxes, callouts, highlights, strikethroughs, underlines, and graphics. For attached files and sounds, icons with the attachment name are displayed, but the contents of the attachment are not displayed. The comment report is a PDF editing log. The current state of a comment can be changed in the Comments panel or using the context menu.
Create a comment report
Do one of the following:
Select the File\u003e menu item.
Select the Comments menu item\u003e.
Open the Comments panel, click the Options button, and select Create report on comments ....
Select to report comments presentation style.
In the Comment Report dialog box, set the options shown below.
Document with comments linked by lines on separate pages
Document with comments linked by lines on the same pages
Comments only
Document with numbered comments on separate pages
Sheet Size: Set the size of the pages of the comment report.
Font size: Set the font size of the text in the comment report: small, medium, or large.
Comment type: Specify which comments to print (all or only currently displayed).
Sorting: Specify the sort order of comments in the report (by author, by date, by page, or by type). When sorting by page, comments are displayed in a natural order; this is the default choice if comments are linked. If you select numbered comments on individual pages, any sort order will work. Sorting by type groups callouts, text boxes, graphics, and more.
Page range: Specify the range of pages to be printed with comments.
Binding line: Set the color and transparency of the link lines between the document and comments.
Include pages without comments: Specify whether to print pages without comments or exclude them.
Click OK. A temporary PDF "Comments Report for [source file name]" is generated containing the annotated document in the specified presentation style. If necessary, save it under the suggested name or some other name.
To specify options in the standard Print dialog box, click Print.
It is very difficult to write reviews of office programs. And not because I understand little about them - I understand much more than the average user. But because it is difficult to describe all the functions of such applications.
Someone needs a program to just do what it is supposed to do. Someone needs a program to support fairly specific operations. Someone wants the program, in addition to its main responsibilities, to replace all office programs. It's hard to please everyone and get the perfect view.
Therefore, I will be guided by the comments that came to our site ... Several times in the last couple of months, the issue of PDF reading was raised, but not just reading, but the ability to make notes in PDF texts. Such a function is available in decent readers. Shortbook , iBooks etc. have the ability to make color marks directly in the text. But Epub or fb2 formats and simple text selection are one thing, PDF is another.
- a program for adding notes to PDF files. It can do a lot in this area - this is what can justify the price of $ 10 (by the way, as for serious office products Pages or Numbers). It is also convenient to use the program as a library of PDF files. More about these and other functions in the review.
IAnnotate PDF Review
File Management in iAnnotate PDF
The program is good at this. It is very convenient to manage files. iAnnotate supports folders and subfolders. Files are scattered by simply dragging them into a new folder. You can select folders and files and carry out group operations. There is a sorting of files and displaying files by filters (for example, only with notes or the most popular).
The program has a built-in search for files, and you can search both by file name and by their content. The search works quickly, since after downloading files to the program, they are indexed.
iAnnotate PDF lets you sync with Dropbox and work directly with him. Download selected PDF files or folders from there. In addition, it is possible to download in the browser built into the program. Well, and finally, you can upload a bunch of files via iTunes in the standard way.
Note:after downloading the files in bulk, you should wait while the program processes them. At this time, the files are indexed, so you should wait a couple of minutes after downloading a dozen files.
The first conclusions that can be drawn from iAnnotate PDF - the approach to file management is very serious. One of the best implementations of this functionality that I have ever seen on an iPad. As a PDF file cataloger, the program is highly rated.
Abstract documents
The iAnnotate program is rich in text annotation capabilities. You can mark parts of the text (and not only the text) with color ... Underline, write your own texts and notes to records. In this case, you yourself decide what color to highlight, what line thickness will be the default, how the note will look: with hidden text or in plain sight.
Notes can be made in several files at once, since they open in tabs (just like a serious browser).
All these possibilities can be realized by a rich set of tools. And you shouldn't look at the default panel: the program really has a lot of tools (they even had to be divided into groups) and they can be added to quick access by simply dragging and dropping. It's a pity the toolbar is not rubber and you can't put much there.
It is mega-convenient to navigate through the file during annotation.
Well, what to do with the files after? In addition to the usual export, the file can be sent by mail. There is an opportunity to choose in what form to send - you can generally send only those pages in which there are notes.
The program itself will generate the required PDF file, which can be read on a computer with a regular PDF reader. This is what the file looks like on the computer after the iAnnotate PDF program. If you click on 5.2, the program jumps to the end of the document, where all the notes are recorded. It turns out like a footnote.
