{"id":1664,"date":"2008-02-18T14:58:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/18\/pdf-day-of-applications\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T13:11:33","slug":"pdf-day-of-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/18\/pdf-day-of-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF day of applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PDF file format is a little gem invented by Adobe that brought the enormous advantage of a portable file format able to display a document on nearly any kind of display and computer. Unfortunately, the Adobe PDF format and free player are not exempt from problems and this generated a wealth of applications worth knowing to support all your needs around the PDF format.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the best ones solving what were problems (until now):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>PDF documents cannot be modified. Wrong!<\/strong> With the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/pdfhammer.com\/\">PDF Hammer<\/a> (an online free tool suite), you can perform basic edits like: add, remove, re-arrange one of more pages from one or more PDF files.<\/li>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/adobe_acrobat.png' alt='Adobe Acrobat' align=\"right\">\t<\/p>\n<li><strong>PDF forms cannot be modified. Wrong!<\/strong> Actually, if you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfescape.com\/\">PDFescape<\/a> (online), you&#8217;ll be able to fill PDF forms and make minor modifications to the document.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PDF documents cannot be restored back to plain text. Wrong!<\/strong> Thanks to free <a href=\"http:\/\/pdftextonline.com\/\">PDF Text online<\/a>, you can just copy-and-paste text from the PDF file you want. It can even preserve the bookmarks and font of the original file.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PDF documents are always long to load. Wrong!<\/strong> Actually, it is a problem of the Adobe PDF reader. Despite being free, it became so bloated that it takes days (Ok, I&#8217;m prone to exageration) to open and load the first file. The solution is simply to use a free alternative PDF reader like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docu-track.com\/downloads\/users\/\">PDF-XChange viewer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Opening PDF files on the web is slow. Right, but&#8230;<\/strong>, if you are the webmaster, you can use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfmenot.com\/\">PdfMeNot<\/a> to transform your PDF files into Flash media that will be easier to handle on your web site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PDF file format is a little gem invented by Adobe that brought the enormous advantage of a portable file format able to display a document on nearly any kind of display and computer. Unfortunately, the Adobe PDF format and free player are not exempt from problems and this generated a wealth of applications worth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,15,3],"tags":[468,245],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-legal-downloads","category-software","tag-adobe","tag-pdf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}