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  • An Easier Way to Edit PDFs Online for Free

    An Easier Way to Edit PDFs Online for Free

    PDFs can be a pain to edit if you don’t have the right tools. They can be large and cumbersome to work with, which can make editing them a time-consuming task. Fortunately, there’s an easier way to do this—and it’s free! With online PDF editors, you can edit PDFs without having to install any software or use any complicated commands. Here are four of the best online PDF editors that you can use today: 1. Adobe Acrobat Reader, 2. PDF.Live, 3. Apple’s Preview, and 4. Canva

    Adobe Acrobat Reader

    Adobe Reader is a free download that can be used to open, view, and print PDFs. It can also be used to make light edits to PDFs, although this feature is limited compared to other options. Adobe Reader supports document properties such as fonts, colors, and annotations, but it does not support embedded files or forms.

    PDF.Live Cloud-Based Editor

    Another option is PDF.Live, a web-based PDF editing and conversion tool. They offer limited free tasks every day, and then a subscription-based model for regular edits. The advantage of using a tool like PDF.Live is that you don’t need to download and install software. It works across many devices, including Windows PC and Mac.

    Apple Preview to Edit PDFs

    Today’s Apple laptop and desktop computers come with a program called Preview that’s easy for viewing, printing and making edits to PDFs. Preview’s PDF editor is best used for proofreading-type edits, annotations and markups.

    Canva to Create and Edit PDFs

    For creating PDF documents from scratch and then making edits, Canva is a go-to tool for creating logos, business cards, fliers, invitations, ebooks and more. It offers a number of features for free, and then a monthly plan for professionals and teams. They offer special pricing for teachers and schools.

    Editing PDFs on a Mobile Device

    For many people, editing PDFs on their desktop or laptop computers is the preferred way to go. But what about when you’re on the go and want to edit a PDF? Well, there are a few options for you.

    One option is to use a mobile app. There are several available, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Some allow you to edit PDFs from your phone or tablet, while others require you to upload the PDF first and then edit it.

    ●  Get Adobe Acrobat Reader from Google Play

    ●  Get PDF Editor for iPad and iPhones

    Another option is to use a website that offers free online editing of PDFs. Many of these websites offer features that paid apps don’t, such as support for drag-and-drop editing and annotation tools. However, some websites have been known to have issues with security and stability, so be sure to read reviews before using them.

    The best option may be somewhere in between these two extremes: a website that allows free online editing but also offers paid subscriptions that give you extra features (like password protection). This type of website, including PDF.Live, will offer the most flexibility and power for editing PDFs, while still being easy enough for anyone to use.

  • Dropbox Makes It Easier To Edit PDFs on iOS

    Dropbox Makes It Easier To Edit PDFs on iOS

    Dropbox announced that its iOS integration with Adobe is live, enabling users to easily edit PDFs stored in Dropbox.

    This was announced for desktop last month. It’s part of a partnership the two companies made designed to make it easier for people to work with PDFs.

    On the Dropbox blog, Sanjana Tandon writes:

    With the latest versions of the Dropbox and Acrobat Reader iOS apps, you’ll be able to annotate and comment on PDFs stored in Dropbox, right from your iPhone or iPad. Just open a PDF from the Dropbox app and tap the ‘Edit’ icon, then edit or electronically sign the PDF in the Acrobat Reader app. All your changes will save back to Dropbox, so you and any collaborators will have the latest version.

    And thanks to the desktop integration we launched last month, editing PDFs stored in Dropbox is just as easy when you’re at your computer. Just connect your Dropbox account in the Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader desktop apps, and you’ll be able to pull up any PDF in your Dropbox right from the Adobe app.

    The functionality will come to Android sometime next year.

    Image via Dropbox

  • Microsoft Office Online Gets A Bunch Of New Features

    Microsoft took the opportunity on Wednesday to run down a list of features that have either rolled out very recently or are in the process of rolling out.

    One is Insights for Office. This lets you right click on a word, select “Insights,” and get info from Bing Snapshot, Wikipedia, Bing Image Search, Oxford English Dictionary, and the web. This is presented alongside your content.

    The feature is also available via the “Tell Me” feature, which now also has word count and another new feature.

    “We enabled Tell Me to not only show commands that are available directly on the ribbon, but to also surface commands that are hidden away in sub-menus,” Microsoft explains. “For example, if you want to change your document’s paper size to A4, you now only need to type something like “size a4″ and Tell Me will present you the “A4 Page Size” command directly in its drop-down—no need to click into the “Page Size” sub-menu anymore. This makes it even easier to get to the command that fits your intent fast and efficiently! Of course, Tell Me still also shows the “Page Size” command, so you can easily get to other options.”

    Office Online also now has enhanced PDF support. It even lets you copy text from images or search by clicking the FIND button.You can convert a PDF into an editable Word document as well.

    “This feature works the best with documents that are mostly text, such as legal, business and scientific documents,” Microsoft notes. “If a PDF contains mostly graphics and diagrams, like a presentation or a brochure, the converter might have a little trouble with the layout or formatting.”

    Additionally, Office Online will now show you where pages end within documents, and you can now easily insert symbols such as the copyright © symbol or international currency symbols like £ or ¥.

    Image via Microsoft

  • Google Adds PDF Viewer To Chrome Beta Channel

    Four and a half months ago, Google indicated that it was developing an "integrated PDF viewing experience" for Chrome.  Now it’s arrived – sort of.  An integrated PDF viewer has at least been introduced to the beta channel.

    The beta channel represents a step forward versus the developer channel, anyway.  Plus, although there are presumably some quirks left to iron out, it sounds like Google’s done a nice job of designing the viewer.

    Google ChromeSoftware engineer John Abd-El-Malek wrote on the Google Chrome Blog today, "With the integrated Chrome PDF viewer now available in Chrome’s beta, you can open a PDF document in Chrome without installing additional software.  The PDF document will load as quickly and seamlessly as a normal web page in the browser."

    Then Abd-El-Malek continued, "Just like we do with web pages viewed in Chrome, we’ve built in an additional layer of security called the ‘sandbox’ around the Chrome PDF viewer to help protect you from malware and security attacks that are targeted at PDF files."

    So, sooner rather than later, it appears that normal Chrome users will get the opportunity to open legal documents, corporate reports, and all other sorts of stuff with a minimum of hassle.

    Chrome may find new favor with businesspeople as a result.

  • Google Moves To Reconcile Chrome, PDFs

    Google Moves To Reconcile Chrome, PDFs

    Love ’em or hate ’em, PDFs are far from rare.  Legal documents, official letters, and corporate reports – among many other things – are often found in this format rather than any other.  It’s important, then, that the Google Chrome team has begun to take PDFs into account.

    Google ChromeDon’t run off to view a PDF in Chrome just yet – you probably won’t get too far no matter how up-to-date your software is.  And really, at this point, only true Chrome pioneers are meant to make use of the new feature.

    But Marc Pawliger, an engineering director at Google, announced on the Chromium Blog, "[W]e are making available an integrated PDF viewing experience in the Chrome developer channel for Windows and Mac, which can be enabled by visiting chrome://plugins."

    As for the next steps, Pawliger continued, "Linux support is on the way, and we will be enabling the integration by default in the developer channel in the coming weeks."  PDF rendering quality, which apparently isn’t quite yet up to par, is also a priority.

    The Chrome team will even give people the option of separately launching Adobe Reader, as well.

    These upgrades could help Chrome bridge the gap between early adopters and the rest of the world.  Or at the least, they should make the early adopters a little happier, and therefore more likely to stick with Chrome and eventually recommend it to others.