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Instant PDFs Without The Cost Or Hassle Of Using Acrobat
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Many of you have heard me extol the benefits of using eFax Messenger Plus as a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat when producing "universally viewable" documents. However, most clients and prospects don’t have the necessary free eFax viewer installed, therefore its usefulness in those cases is limited.
Since most computer users
already have the free Acrobat viewer on their
computer, the answer would be to simply send PDF's.
The only problem here is that to create PDFs you
typically have to use the full version of Acrobat,
which costs nearly US $200 and is a bit clumsy to
use. Well, not any more. If you currently don't
own the full version of Acrobat, you can get a
special utility called PDFMailer
that allows you to very quickly and easily create
and send PDFs of any kind of document. Like eFax
Messenger Plus, it installs as a print driver. To
send a PDF of say a spreadsheet, you simply
"print" the spreadsheet using the
PDFMailer print driver and it will automatically
create a PDF version of the spreadsheet and attach
it to an e-mail that you then address and send.
It's that simple.
You can download and use a
free version of PDFMailer for as long as you want.
However, it contains a one-line ad (about
PDFMailer of course) at the top of each page. For
only US $49 (as of this writing), you can get the
ad-free version, which is a lot less than the full
version of Acrobat, and it is much easier to use.
While eFax Messenger Plus is easy to use,
typically creates smaller file sizes than PDF, and
offers the ability to easily annotate the
resulting files, there are times when only a PDF
will do. In those cases, PDFMailer is an excellent
and affordable alternative to the full version of
Acrobat.
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