"The Paperless Office Part 2"

By Leah Lothringer
PDF Store Support Team
Issue 19 for 2006

Last week I discussed the concept of the paperless office and the associated benefits that come with moving towards a paperless setup.

PDF has gradually come to be the preferred format for communications media because there is the assurance that the document you create/edit on your machine will look exactly the same when opened on a different machine, irrespective of the person’s hardware, software, operating system, etc. Visit Planet PDF to learn what happened when CEO Karl DeAbrew opened a document that was sent to him in MS Word format.

Once an office has converted its stock of information into electronic (PDF) format, how will new documents be created? How can employees view and edit existing documents?

An all-in-one creator, converter, viewer and editor is the appropriate solution and should be made available to employees across the enterprise. Nitro PDF Professional can create new PDF documents, scan to PDF and convert entire collections of existing documents to PDF – even a collection of files in different formats (ie: MS Word, Excel, JPG, TIFF, HTML, etc). It also enables users to edit existing PDF documents.

For complete, centralized administrative control over PDF documents moving through an organization, take a look at Absolute PDF Server. Documents can be distributed with appropriate permissions from a single administrator, freeing up the need to install software on every machine in an organization.

A decreased reliance on paper can lead to greater productivity. There is a wide range of products on the market to facilitate for the shift to a paperless office. PDF Store’s Server-side PDF aisle includes several packages that are designed to distribute documents across an enterprise.