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	PDF Basics: Viewing, printing and editing By Rowan Hanna PDF Store Support Team Issue 7 for 2005 Maybe you're new to PDF, and you want to know what all the fuss is about. What is it, and how do I use it? At it's very simplest level, PDF is the electronic equivalent of paper -- in fact, it has previously been referred to as 'ePaper'. PDF documents follow the page metaphor: it is to HTML as is, say, a book to a scroll. Because of this, it's easy to print and comfortable to read on-screen. PDF is also cross-platform with free viewers available for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX machines. In other words, it's a great file for the electronic exchange of print-ready documents. In this column, I'll briefly go over some of the basics: viewing, editing and printing PDFs... Viewing PDF files is easy -- just download a copy of the free Adobe Reader and Bob's your uncle. Since PDF is designed to be faithful to a printed original, editing has deliberately been limited, so major changes should be made in the source document before printing to PDF. If you do need to make small changes or would like to mark up a document, you'll need to use either the full version of Acrobat or a lower-end 3rd party alternative such as Infix PDF Editor. While these lack the full functionality of Acrobat, they are also significantly cheaper. As always, you will need to make the decision based on required functionality versus price. As I mentioned earlier, PDFs are designed to be easy to print. As a result, you can easily obtain a hard copy of a PDF document simply by hitting the 'Print' button in any PDF viewing application. Assuming that the page size and other settings are configured correctly, you shouldn't have any problems. It should be noted that I speak of simple office printing, so users in a production environment will have more involved procedures. Until next week, please browse PDF Store's PDF Management aisle for the complete range of PDF viewers. PDF Store News Amyuni PDF Converter 2.5 released PDF Converter 2.5 has been released at PDF Store and is available for download. New features include embedding of Type1(Postscript) fonts in the PDF files and generation of CMYK colored PDFs. Iceni launches word processor for PDFs Infix is a revolutionary new word processor for PDF documents. Easily rewrite the text in your PDFs, reflow and justify, change fonts, colours and sizes - in fact all the things you would expect from a WYSIWYG word processor. Top 5 Sellers ARTS PDF Aerialist Quite Imposing Plus XpdfViewer PDFlib XpdfViewer ARTS PDF Crackerjack Top 5 Downloads ARTS PDF Aerialist XpdfViewer DocuCom PDF Driver Infix PDF Editor ARTS PDF Split & Merge		PDF/Mergician: Enables users to create data-driven documents using PDF forms as templates. PDF/Mergician allows the user to import data from any data base or XML document. $749.00 - Buy Now DocuCom PDF Driver: Create PDF for $49.95 with Zeon's DocuCom PDF Driver -- one of the best PDF creators you can find. Great quality, great price. Download your demo from PDF Store today. $49.95 - Buy Now Quite Revealing $249.00 - PDF Prepress & PDF Print ARTS PDF Aerialist $379.00 - PDF Management Established in 1998, Acro Software provides easy-to-use, versatile utilities and SDK for processing PDF and interactive PDF forms. Get advanced control over PDF document outputs using CutePDF, a Top 10 PDF Store Selling product. Download an Acro Software demo product from PDF Store today. Visit the Planet PDF Web Expo to review detailed product information, download case studies and white papers. The Planet PDF Web Expo also links directly to PDF Store for quick demo downloads and purchases. Take a look today.
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