Here's Another One For Ya!

Another program that the University of Phoenix requires us to have is a .pdf reader called Acrobat Reader. It's free too and it does it's job pretty well, but I know it's taking about three days to load on some of your computers, and you can't modify the files you are looking at. Now, for our purposes it's not really necessary to modify .pdf files, but here's a scenario for you:

You download a form that's in .pdf format. Now you gotta fill out this form and get it back to somebody quick. First, you gotta print it out (wasting ink and trees), and then you gotta fill in the info with that old tube and ink device(more ink), and then you gotta find a fax machine (ink, trees) to dial the person up and hope that they stroll by the fax machine in their office at the right time and your fax doesn't end up somewhere it shouldn't, because then you'd have to start the whole process over again.

Or you can just download this program: Foxit Reader . This program is small, so it loads fast. You just bring up your .pdf file, call up the Typewriter Tool, and enter your information directly into the document. From there you can print the document out back to a .pdf file, using CutePDF and e-mail it back to whoever needs it. That quick! Oh yeah, both those programs are free too.

Oh yeah, and you know that software suite I told you about yesterday- OpenOffice.org .
You can export your documents to .pdf in Writer. You can't do that in Microsoft Word.

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