Computer Learning, My Free Writing on Computer and Information technology

Everybody knows PDF (Portable Document Format). This file is a superb, multiplatform and can be used to print documents from nearly all application. Since it’s multiplatform, you can open PDF on almost all operating system on earth. That’s not only it’s features. It’s specification is also opened to everyone so there are many third party software creator making softwares to open or edit PDF file. Amongst the softwares are the Free and Open source. Just check the list of alternatives to PDF Editing and Creation Tools. It’s noteworthy list.

I will publish my own e-book in quite soon. I will write it in english then upload it to Divshare or Indoupload so that the file won’t be burden for my webserver.

There are many free softwares that can be used to create/make PDF file (PDF-portable document format- is a type of file usually used for e-books publishing). Here’s the list:

1. PDF Creator (free and open source, but not compatible for Vista).
2. Open Office (integrated with OpenOffice suite, including Writer, Calc, Impress, Base).
3. Ghostscripts and it’s derivatives.

There are many CHM Makers nowadays, but what i will tell you is better, since it’s Free just as beer/tea (for whom considering beer is not good ;-)) and also free just as speech (although that it’s build with VB.NET).

It’s name is MSWord2CHM, this software will change your Word .doc document into CHM by first convert it to HTML and XHTML.

Wan’t to know more, just click it’s project site from Sourceforge. It’s open source, so you don’t need to worry about malware and spyware.

Project’s site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/msword2chm/

PS: This software needs internet connection when converting MS Word to CHM.

There are many PDF Viewers for Windows. The official PDF Reader is Adobe Acrobat Reader. But It’s too heavy and requires lots of computer resource. If your computer hardware specs is not good then Adobe Acrobat Reader is unefficient.

So, try Foxit Reader. It’s Lean and reliable.

PS: Foxit Reader also has a Linux version, but i think the Linux Version is still awfull.

There are many softwares to create PDF files on Windows, one of them is PDFCreator. Install this software on your windows first (you can get it from the Open CD project or from this page). But, Vista is not allowed here. Read the rest of this entry »