March 28, 2002

PDF file creation via e-mail

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format that is quite popular among net content providers. This week NetSpeak presents a few tools and services that facilitate easy conversion of documents to PDF files.

Portable Document Format

The need of people who work on different kinds of computers that run on different operating systems — Windows, Linux, DOS and the like — to communicate and exchange documents led to the creation of platform independent file formats. The portable document format (PDF) is one such standard and a file created in this format can be read in any machine running any OS — you just need the Acrobat reader, which is available for free.