PDF has become the internet standard over the last few years, and many people and companies have found the ease of use of this well known document format: you can spread it easily, almost everyone can open it, it looks very professional and you don't have to worry about anyone modifying or stealing your text or images!
You can't browse around the internet nowadays without coming across a few PDF files. There's a good reason for that: more and more different software programs are being released, all using different document types, and there really was, and still is, a high need for 1 standard document format.
So PDF is a great format, and most people already know you can open these PDF files with the free Acrobat Reader tool. But what most people don't know is how to create a PDF File. And that's really a shame as creating your own PDF Files can be so easy, and even more important: it saves you so much trouble when trying to share your documents with friends, family or maybe the whole internet. So time to change that!
There are plenty of solutions around on the internet, one more difficult or pricey than another. I've picked, in my opinion, the simplest solution which works pretty straight forwarded and lets you create PDF files from almost any program. You can find it at http://www.mypdfcreator.com, but let's start with a small tutorial on the 3 steps to create your own PDF files:
Step1) Selecting Print
The MyPDFCreator tool acts like it's some sort of a printer. (You don't need a real printer to be able to create your own PDF documents.) This might sound a bit confusing, but it's actually really useful as you can now simply select the program from any application that can print. So let's say you want to simply convert a Word document to PDF. Open up your Word file, and click on File, and then Print to bring up the Print Window.
Step2) Selecting PDF Creator
You'll now see the standard Windows print dialog containing a dropdown list with printer names. Make sure PDF Creator is selected and then simply click on 'OK'.
Step3) Selecting the desired filename.
You'll now see a simple PDF Creator window with a few options and buttons. You can email your file directly, or apply some security settings if you want, but simply click on the large 'Save' button to select a filename and save your new PDF File.
And that's it: just follow these 3 simple steps and you'll have your own PDF file in a few clicks and in a matter of seconds. This works for all documents and programs: as long as you can print your document, you can save it as a PDF file!
You should check out the original http://www.mypdfcreator.com site, if you want or need some extra tutorials including screenshots/images.
Happy PDFing!
Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Abby_Randal/63831
Step1) Selecting Print
The MyPDFCreator tool acts like it's some sort of a printer. (You don't need a real printer to be able to create your own PDF documents.) This might sound a bit confusing, but it's actually really useful as you can now simply select the program from any application that can print. So let's say you want to simply convert a Word document to PDF. Open up your Word file, and click on File, and then Print to bring up the Print Window.
Step2) Selecting PDF Creator
You'll now see the standard Windows print dialog containing a dropdown list with printer names. Make sure PDF Creator is selected and then simply click on 'OK'.
Step3) Selecting the desired filename.
You'll now see a simple PDF Creator window with a few options and buttons. You can email your file directly, or apply some security settings if you want, but simply click on the large 'Save' button to select a filename and save your new PDF File.
And that's it: just follow these 3 simple steps and you'll have your own PDF file in a few clicks and in a matter of seconds. This works for all documents and programs: as long as you can print your document, you can save it as a PDF file!
You should check out the original http://www.mypdfcreator.com site, if you want or need some extra tutorials including screenshots/images.
Happy PDFing!
Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Abby_Randal/63831