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eBook creation tip: Acrobat.com converts 5 Word docs to PDF free each month

by tomcam
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Working on a strategically important ebook, we realized that Macintosh Office's Save as PDF bloated a 250K .doc file to 2.4 megabytes. Although we have a license for Adobe Acrobat it's a pain to use. Remembered that Acrobat.com had some kind of conversion service. Sure enough you can sign up and get 5 conversions a month free. We did it and the resultant PDF was a trim 164K.
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  • Profile picture of the author sanssecret
    It's a while since I checked but I'm pretty sure you only get 5 conversions in total. After that you need to sign up.

    Originally Posted by tomcam View Post

    Remembered that Acrobat.com had some kind of conversion service. Sure enough you can sign up and get 5 conversions a month free. We did it and the resultant PDF was a trim 164K.
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  • Profile picture of the author ONEWOLF
    My Mac creates unlimited free pdf documents. This function is found in the print options.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I use Open Office. Just create the doc in Open Office Writer instead of Word and save as pdf. Works beautifully.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hesaidblissfully
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      I use Open Office. Just create the doc in Open Office Writer instead of Word and save as pdf. Works beautifully.
      Same here. On a somewhat related note, there's also a site where you can convert PDFs to Word documents for free.

      PDF to Word Converter — 100% Free

      I had to use this the yesterday to edit a PDF document that I'd lost the original Word file to. It works pretty well. I noticed a couple of formatting errors, but much better than having to re-type the whole report.
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