Now here's something exciting!
While surfing the Internet to check up some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) stuff, I stumbled upon this HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) to PDF (Portable Document Format) conversion service (click here or image above to take you to the website).
Being curious, I tested the service out on my own blog's landing page and, viola! What I got was a surprisingly crisp and clear rendition of my site's homepage as a PDF, and here's the interesting thing! All the hyperlinks within the page are active as well!
It was just two days ago that I was tearing my hair out trying to get a Microsoft Word document with hyperlinks embedded to be converted as a PDF file, only to find that after the conversion process, the link indicators (underlined blue text) were there but weren't active. The word out in blogosphere (at least those quadrants that I checked) was that the freeware version of Adobe Acrobat does not support the conversion and preservation of hyperlinks ported over from word documents.
I got to be the first to admit that I'm not an expert on this, but all I can say was that it hasn't been an easy process for me to find out how to get my files saved with the hyperlinks intact.
Enter to PDF File Converter, which is part of the umbrella of services that includes the HTML-PDF conversion application discussed above. You may want to bookmark this site as well.
What it does is that it allows you to choose MS Office, images, web pages, as well as vector graphic format files from your computer or laptop (Source to PDF) and make the conversion, and the application will even be able to mail the converted file to your email.
I tried it out with one of the Word files I was trying to convert and it was accomplished in no more than five minutes, and all the hyperlinks are alive and active. Talk about taking great services right to your doorsteps!
Enter the mini Media Center Suite...
OK. Enough of waxing lyrical about this application. You should test drive the program yourself to see how it meets your needs. But for me, it's certainly a life-saver. In fact, because of this program, I'm now able to integrate a small Media Center suite to this blog so that visitors who find certain articles useful may download it as a PDF of their own.
For now, I'll be integrating this 'service' into articles posted under the PR 2.0 page (you'll be seeing more of such applications like the one above at the end of each post), and depending on how successful this turns out to be, I wouldn't mind expanding it to all postings in the future. If you are interested to copy the widget, the script is available below.
<script type="text/javascript"></script><script src="http://web2pdf.freepdfconvert.com/pdfbutton.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
From how I see it, this will be a small but purposeful step towards the gradual transfiguration of my blog entries as Social Media Releases (SMR).
The steps are small and the way ahead is long, but I suppose this is the right way to go. So, here's to looking ahead then...
AFTERTHOUGHT: It's really hard to tell if this service will stay free for as long as we need it, or it'll eventually turn into a pay-per-use or subscription based service, so my take is that we should do as much as we need with it while it lasts...
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