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There’s hardly anyone who never came across PDF files as adoption of this Adobe’s flagship format is truly widespread.

However there has been some negative voices regarding its’ equally popular PDF reader application i.e. the Acrobat Reader. It’s really not about the quality of the software but some people are just not comfortable with its’ domination perhaps. It’s similar to Microsoft-bashing group out there.

PDF Readers

Among the biggest complaints about Adobe Reader is it’s bulky size and it’s incessant nags of update notices. Personally I didn’t find these too much of a trouble but if there are alternatives that’s available then why not.

After quite a long period of searching and tried-and-dumped a few PDF readers, I finally settled with Foxit Reader. I simply fell for it’s loading time as it is lightning fast. Some other readers that I tried were rather buggy, made URLs become inactive, stuffed with ads, etc.

PDF Converters

My other mission was to have a PDF converter. It was like “how did these people create all the PDF documents” and I don’t know how to do it. So I ended with PDF995 but later on find PrimoPDF more appealing.

Most of this applications work by emulating as a printer driver. Whenever you wanted to convert a document or file to PDF format, there’s a little trick needed to happen. You basically “print” that document to the “PDF printer” such as PrimoPDF and voila! the file is converted. There’s no real need to print hard copies in the process but that’s how it’s done. I discovered that some converters may render URL or hyperlinks inactive. So with that shortcoming, my search continues.

As I was working with some MS Words documents that need conversion to PDF, I found out that Open Office’s Writer handles the job perfectly. First, it reads Words files without problem and does the PDF conversion smoothly too. This feature is built-in without help from any third party applications.

While all the above more or less satisfy my needs, there’s one guy who amazes me with tons of resources related to PDF. Read all about it here. At one moment I thought I knew a lot about PDF stuff just to be entirely smashed by Hong Kiat the next. He is showcasing 80 cool PDF tools that will satisfy most things you wanted to do with PDF formatted files.

So if you’re into online PDF converters, offline converters, readers, creators plus tips and resources, head over to Hong Kiat’s blog now.

It’s 80 of them altogether and the best thing is that almost every single one is…FREE! It can’t be better than that right?

Enjoy it.

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