There are several tools and services for converting file to pdf formats. But it becomes a pain to use them if you convert files to pdf format quite often and sometimes the results are completely unusable like formatting is all messed up.
There are several disadvantages of using such tools & services which are :
- Time consuming process.
- Formatting is not preserved exactly.
- Conversion of only a few file formats are supported.
In my opinion, I don’t even like using them. I do use PDFmyurl to convert web pages into pdf on the fly and to convert posts from my blog to pdf for visitors. You can provide the option to download posts as pdfs on your blog too.
Best option to convert files to pdf formats is to use Bullzip. It will add itself to the printer options of the computer and it will act as if it is a printer.
Now we can print any file (be it document, text file or image), select the Bullzip PDF printer and in output it will generate a PDF file.
Awesome stuff!
It overcomes many of the limitations discussed above and has its advantages of its own :
- Very fast (Give Print command and select the printer and you are done).
- Even text files which are tabbed can be printed exactly without loss of any formatting.
- Any file which can printed can be converted to PDF (There are no limitations as such).
I highly recommend Bullzip to convert text documents, document pages or even images to PDF.
It supports Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/XP x64/2003/2003 x64/Vista/Vista x64/2008/Windows 7 and requires Ghostscript to work.
Bullzip itself is of 4.3 MB in size and Ghostscript is 8.8 MB in size.
During installation, it will automatically download and install Ghostscript.
What do you use for converting file formats to pdf? Do you use web services? I would like to hear what all do you use and why.