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Pdf format is today used by many users for distribution and sharing of files across various platforms. The advantage of using pdf is that these files are not easily editable and the user may not be able to modify the contents.

However, if you want to convert them to editable files, there comes a few converters also. In case you don’t want to install them, but still be able to convert your files, you can use following online helpful websites. You just have to send the pdf files as an email attachment and these websites will convert them to different formats and send the converted file back to you.

For converting pdf to plain txt: Mail pdf file to pdf2txt@adobe.com

For converting pdf to HTML: Mail pdf file to: pdf2html@adobe.com

For converting jpg to pdf: Mail jpg file to pdf@koolwire.com

PDF files are notorious for slowing your computer. If you click a link of pdf document on Internet, many times, the browser gets extremely slow, sometimes just hanging. This specially happens with Firefox.

It is specially irritating, when you expect to go to a web page, but instead of that, an external program like Acrobat Reader starts opening to deal with the target pdf file. This is the reason precisely, why good website, tell you beforehand that this is a pdf link. For instance, you will find pdf written in Googel search results against the pdf files results.

So, how to dowload pdf files easily.

With firefox, it is very easy.

Download the “Download pdf” addon for firefox, install it and have peace.

Whenever you click a pdf link, the following options will be given to you, and you can easily choose what you want to do.

Nice tip.

Foxit Reader is a free light weight application for handling PDF documents. It is small in size, only 2.1 Mb and a rich feature set. The best part is that it is amazingly fast to load. Foxit Reader supports all Windows platforms like 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Now no more waiting periods to open pdf files through Adobe Acrobat reader, which was a pain when opening in Firefox Browsers. Its breezing fast speed will surely amuse you.

Another useful feature of Foxit is that it allows you to make annotations. i.e. now you can write notes or comments or highlight text on a PDF document very easily. It is further claimed that it is spyware free, while some other freely available pdf readers often connect to Internet to share your important data.

There are several new features in its latest version Foxit Reader 2.2 like interactive form filler, multi-language UI support, on-demand download of add-on, self upgrade, Javascript support, improved printing speed, streamlined UI and much more., which you can check out on its download page.

Earlier version of MS Office 2007 had “Save as pdf” feature, which allowed users to save Office files in pdf format. But later this feature was removed after a dispute with Adobe, the originators of pdf format.

But now “Save as pdf” feature has again been made available by Microsoft as a separate add-on for Office 2007. You can download it free at Office 2007 download center, but it requires you to validate the Genuine Microsoft Office requirement.