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PDFZilla Time-limited Giveaway

Mike Halsey MVP — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:35:44 +0000

The PDF converter software, PDZFilla, is now completely free for a limited period. This isn’t like any other PDF conversion software though as PDFZilla doesn’t convert your documents into Adobe’s portable document format, instead it can convert PDFs back into editable files.

It’s main features include…

Convert PDF to Word
Convert PDF to Word with all text and Graphical data.
Convert PDF to RTF
Convert PDF to Rich Text Files. You can edit all text and graphic by Windows Wordpad.
Convert PDF to TXT
Convert PDF to plain text files. You can edit text by Notepad.
Convert PDF to Images
Convert PDF to BMP, JPG, GIF or TIF files.
Convert PDF to HTML
Convert PDF to HTML files and automatically generate the Index file.
Convert PDF to SWF
Convert PDF to Shockwave Flash Animation files which can be published on websites.
Page Selection
Convert all the pages, or partial pages of PDF file.
Easy to use software
Add a PDF File -> Select the Output File Format -> Click on Start Converting button, then just have a cup of coffee :)

This software is normally $29.95 but is completely free until February 5th 2011. You can download your copy here where you will also find a product code. The best thing about all this is that it’s just a simple download and there’s no need to register with the website and give away all your marketing details.

So for free software, this utility to make your PDF files editable again is an absolute must have! You can download your free copy here.

Free Online Conversions

Martin Brinkmann — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:14:58 +0000

Sometimes you download filetypes that your computer can’t read because of a missing viewer or that you would like to transport to a portable device that only reads certain filetypes. Instead of download several programs that are able to convert the files you have into the filetypes that you need you could use the online file conversion website Zamzar to do the same.

Zamzar offers four different format categories which are: document, image, movie and music. Each category has a large list of formats that can be converted into each other. The following can be converted on the website:

text formats: csv, doc, odp, ods, odt, pdf, ppt and xls.
image formats: bmp, gif, jpg, tiff, ps
music fomats: ac3, au, flac, m4a, mp3, wav, wma
movie formats: avi, flv, gvi, mov, mp4, mpg

As you can see there are plenty of possiblities to convert formats into each other. The maximum file limit is 100 megabytes which should be sufficient for most purposes.

Convert your Documents into one Format

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:28:01 +0000

You have got lots of different file formats on your computer: jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp and png or rtf,txt,doc and pdf for instance. The big question that comes to my mind is why do we need that many formats. Most file formats offer no gain over the other, would not it make sense to convert all files of a certain type to one format only ?

Omniformat is able to convert 75 different document types, the emphasis lies on text and graphic documents. I can think of one reason for myself to convert documents to different formats: I sometimes download files that I´am not able to edit because they have been either created on a different operating system and my system does not support editing the file or I simply do not have an editor at hand for the document.

This could be the most prominent reason for most users of omniformat but there are or course more. Omniformat is able to watch a folder for new documents. Once a new document is added to the folder it will be automatically converted to a chosen format. An image could be converted to a text document using OCR for instance.