How to create a PDF for free
PDFs are useful for all kinds of documents you may use in your craft business, from order forms to patterns and tutorials, as well as eBooks. But how can you make them at home without shelling out 300$ for the Adobe Acrobat Suite?
First, you can use Open Office, available at http://www.openoffice.org. It’s a complete, quality office suite available for free. All programs in the suite have the option « Export to PDF », and can read Microsoft Office files, among others. You can have all the power and advantages of an office suite with PDF-printing option.
Second, you can use a PDF printer. These programs will show up as printers when you try to print something. Select it, press print as usual and you’ll get a PDF file instead of a printed document. PDF995 is a good PDF printer, but there are many others available.
It’s great if you’re using a program that cannot be converted easily to a written document and have no PDF conversion options, like cross stitch grids. On the downside, sometimes you can loose a bit of quality when you print that way, and you’ll loose all options like links, since it’s a picture of the printed page.
There are many others ways to create PDF, but those two techniques usually allow me to create the files I want. But keep an eye out, more and more programs have a “convert to PDF” option.
Happy craft selling,
Cindy
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