Cool PDF Tools

Here you go, bunch of free and useful PDF tools, i.e. (1) ‘… to PDF’ online converters, (2) lightweight PDF readers (for Mac, Win, Linux), (3) online PDF form filler, (4) PDF printers and (5) PDF annotation tool.

(1) PDFfiller – lets you upload and fill out any PDF form on-line. Just upload the doc (or point to its URL), wait for document to load and start filling it out. Once done, print it out. Supports IE and Firefox browsers. [Update: PDFfiller used to be a free service, but not anymore.]

(2) Online Converters (from .XYZ to .PDF)

  • PDFonline – converts Word(.doc, .rtf), Excel(.xls), Powerpoint(.ppt, .pps), text(.txt), webpages(.html) and images(.bmp, .tiff, .wmf, .emf, .gif) to PDF [max file size: 2mb].
  • expressPDF – converts Microsoft Office docs (Word, Excel) and webpages to PDF.
  • Neevia Document Converter – converts any Word, spreadsheet(i.e. Excel), presentation and image docs to PDF or image files [max file size: 1mb].
  • RSS2PDF – RSS, Atom or Opml to PDF converter

(3) doPDF (Windows) – lets you print to PDF from any running program

(4) PDFCreator (Windows) – similar to doPDF but has some additional features i.e. merge multiple PDF files into one.

(5) Skim (Mac) – lets you read and annotate (add notes, highlights, encircle) PDF files.

(6) Fast, lightweight PDF viewers (memory friendly alternatives to Adobe Acrobat)

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  • Hari

    I like this site too… It converts postscript files to pdf. http://www.ps2pdf.com

  • http://makeuseof.com Aibek

    thanks for the link

  • http://www.nitropdf.com Richard

    Have you tried PDF Download for Firefox? Very handy indeed. http://www.pdfdownload.org

  • http://www.touchpdf.com touchpdf

    online PDF viewer/editor, beta version, supports typewrite/split/concatenate….

  • Pamela

    Great article.pdfonline.com and pdffiller.com are the best pdf tools ever. thank you.

  • http://www.mergepdf.net AH

    We just started a free service online to join multiple docs together. Would appreciate a link here if appropriate, cheers.

  • GLN

    Very happy to have found doPDF! It works very fine. Have been searching a lot before I found it here. Thank you!

  • Manolo

    you might also add http://www.fillanypdf.com to the list, handy for filling forms when you dont even have adobe installed.