Comments on: A Week of Useful Links http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2007/link-dump/ Tech Tools for Academics Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:23:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: G. Curt Fiedler http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2007/link-dump/#comment-4780 G. Curt Fiedler Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:08:49 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=153#comment-4780 There are actually other tools to convert PDF files for Windoze users. I have my students submit all papers to me as pdf files, and most of them use Windows. So, I maintain a list of free resources that allow them to save or convert their files in pdf format. You can check this out on my web page: http://sensei.ad.umuc.edu/cfiedler/otherinfo/savingpdffilesinwindows.html Two of the options (PDF Creator, Cute PDF Writeer) are apps like doPDF, in that they work through the print dialog box. I appreciate your link, as I'll add it as another option. Unfortunately, many of my students are totally unable to install these apps on their PCs, or don't understand how to use them. I stumbled upon another option to help those folks. The third option isn't an app, but a website called the Neevia Document Converter. You submit a word processing or other file and it will be converted free. Quite a few file formats are recognized. There are only two catches. First, it has to be less than 1MB in size. Second, it doesn't yet work with .docX files. In any case, feel free to link to my site. I'll update it with the new link very soon. There are actually other tools to convert PDF files for Windoze users. I have my students submit all papers to me as pdf files, and most of them use Windows. So, I maintain a list of free resources that allow them to save or convert their files in pdf format.

You can check this out on my web page:
http://sensei.ad.umuc.edu/cfiedler/otherinfo/savingpdffilesinwindows.html

Two of the options (PDF Creator, Cute PDF Writeer) are apps like doPDF, in that they work through the print dialog box. I appreciate your link, as I’ll add it as another option.

Unfortunately, many of my students are totally unable to install these apps on their PCs, or don’t understand how to use them. I stumbled upon another option to help those folks.

The third option isn’t an app, but a website called the Neevia Document Converter. You submit a word processing or other file and it will be converted free. Quite a few file formats are recognized. There are only two catches. First, it has to be less than 1MB in size. Second, it doesn’t yet work with .docX files.

In any case, feel free to link to my site. I’ll update it with the new link very soon.

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