Convert Any Document to PDF format – Online and for free

August 23, 2006
By sinha

Although there are good number of pdf convertor utilities availabale in the market, a common problems across these tools are:

  • Documents containing bulletted points/images/tables are not rendered properly.
  • Most of the pdf convertor tend to leave a watermark in the converted pdf. (i.e. the PDF footer will contain a link to their site etc.) And this makes the document useless (obviously, I can’t send the watermarked pdf to my boss/customer..right?)
  • The ones which work well (i.e. render the converted doc properly) and don’t leave their watermarks come with a price.

Adobe’s online pdf convertor looks okay, but the pricing is as weird as it could be – First 5 docs for free, then 9.99 USD/month or 99.99USD/year – that too only in US and Canada! (will they snail mail the PDF in a CD?This is really funny!)

Came across pdfonline.com, and I must say that its one of the coolest pdf conversion tool that I have ever used.

All you need to do is upload the document, enter your email address and you will receive the pdf in a few seconds.

As of now, the tool supports .doc/txt/rtf/ppt/pps/pub/xls and html formats only.

Not to worry, they have an installable easyPDF Printer Driver, which can convert any format to PDF.

Also see: Cool Utilities for XP users | Convert any file format to any other file format

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               About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in. He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]

2 Responses to “ Convert Any Document to PDF format – Online and for free ”

  1. Tamal on August 23, 2006 at 2:38 pm

    Dude, you can also check out http://www.pdf995.com. It had a cool utility to convert any doc type to PDF, and a local PDF print driver.

  2. Ashish on August 23, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    Tamal
    pdf995 has rendering problems too..especially with tables/bullets..

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