Web Document Creation

PDF Writer: Another Free Solution… And It’s Great!

December 28, 2006 on 4:00 am | In Web Document Creation | No Comments

There are several free programs and services to create pdf documents. However, many do not convert images and links in the source document reliably into the pdf format.

We’ve tried out the Google Docs & Spreadsheets document creation service for this purpose and are delighted with its performance.

‘Google Docs & Spreadsheets’ is a free web-based service for creating text documents and spreadsheets. There is one section for creating text documents and one for spreadsheets.

In the text documents section, you can create a document with graphics and hyperlinks, then save it in doc, pdf, rtf, html or odt format (that’s a remarkable range…).

As soon as we logged on to the text document section for the first time, we created a text document with images and hyperlinks and saved it in pdf format. The process was very fast and the result was beautiful… we were impressed and delighted.

To get to the service, create a Gmail account, log onto Gmail and then look at the upper left corner of your screen for the ‘Google Docs & Spreadsheets’ link. When you click on it, you will be presented with a fresh window asking you to select from new text document creation (’New Document’) and new spreadsheet creation (’New Spreadsheet’). Click on the first choice.

The text document section is simple, intuitive and pleasurable to use. The ‘File’ menu drops down to present the various saving choices described above.

We strongly recommend that you try this pdf creation process out the next time you need to create an online document, and are certain that your reaction will be the same as ours!

And of course post your thoughts on the subject as a comment on this blog… we look forward to hearing from you!

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