Browser developers add new features to web browsers all the time. Sometimes those features improve the browser’s usability. This is for instance the case with the native pdf reading capabilities of the Chrome browser. Instead of having to install a third party plugin for that functionality or to download the pdf document first to read [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

PDF documents can contain all kinds of media besides text. You may encounter images for instance or forms in them among other elements. Depending on the pdf viewer, you may be able to save those elements separately or not at all. This tutorial is going to show you how to extract images or text from [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

When you are dealing with important documents from professional and academic research sources, many of these documents are in a protected PDF format. Extracting text from these documents can seem nearly impossible. LotApps Free PDF to Text Converter is a free portable application that converts single or multiple PDF documents into Plain Text Format. You [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

PDF Masher has been designed for users who read ebooks on their mobile devices. PDF is not the best format for that purpose, considering that it is not possible to change a document’s font size for instance. While it is possible to use the device’s zoom function to read the document, it is usually not [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

When it comes to pdf readers Windows users have lots of choices. From Adobe Reader over third party alternatives such as Sumatra or Foxit Reader to built-in pdf readers in browsers such as Google Chrome. When it comes to creating pdf documents, the choice shrinks significantly. Nitro PDF Reader has received lots of praise in [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Roman just posted an interesting observation about pdf printers on the Ghacks forum. He noticed that the output file size of pdf printers differed considerably. In his own test, he noticed a difference of nearly 400% between the smallest file size and largest file size. While that’s just been a single test, it shows that [...]

Categories: Software

The popular pdf document reader Foxit Reader has been updated by its developers to version 5.0 today. The new release is already available for download at the official Foxit Reader website. Existing Foxit Reader users can check for updates in the pdf reader to download and install the latest version without downloading it manually from [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Some say that printer ink is more expensive than gold. I’m not sure if this is still true with gold breaking one all-time high after the other. Still, printer ink is pretty expensive, especially if you buy official ink. One way to save ink is to print multiple pages on one sheet of paper. That [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Popular software developer Ashampoo is currently emailing their customers about a recently discovered successful hack on one of their servers. The break-in had been discovered by Ashampoo, and the company interrupted it and closed the security gap that the hackers used to gain access. Unfortunately though, customer address data and email addresses were stolen by [...]

Categories: Security