Apple had an education event in late January in New York that allowed any company to dip their foot in the textbook industry. This was through the release of iBooks 2, a more textbook focused iBooks app than the previous version, for the iPad. In addition, Apple released iTunes U for iPhone, allowing individuals to enjoy the college course videos and podcasts they know and love from iTunes, on their iOS devices. Last but not least, Apple made it possible for every individual to have a chance to get into the publishing field with iBooks Author for Mac. Today, we will crack open the application to see what it offers us.
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How to Convert Your PDF Files to ePub/Mobi Format
By | December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
If you own an ebook reader, the popular Kindle Fire or NOOK Color, I am sure that you won’t want to read your PDF files on it. PDF is a great file format for printing and sharing documents that don’t require edits, but for ebook reading, it is definitely not the preferred format. Amazon Kindle uses the .mobi format while some other ebook reader uses the .epub format.
Over the past few years, I have amassed a great collection of ebooks, albeit in pdf format. I have recently got myself a tablet and found that reading pdf ebooks on the device is a tiring task. While some of the ebooks are formatted properly, others come with 2/3 columns layout and moving from one section to another is rather distracting. Converting these pdf ebooks to epub/mobi format becomes an necessary task.
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Win A Copy Of Docany PDF to Text/JPG Converter: 20 Licenses Up For Grab! [Contest Ended]
By | September 14, 2011 |
The PDF format is a great file format for reading. Its portability and cross-platforms compatibility also make it one of the most popular format for sharing read-only files. However, being a read-only format, it also created much inconvenience for those who need to edit its content. if you are one of those who need to extract the content of a PDF file regularly, the following software PDF to Text converter and PDF to JPG converter will be of interest to you.
The Docany PDF converter software exist for only one purpose: to allow you to convert your PDF file into an editable format. Needless to say, the PDF to Text converter converts PDF to text and the PDF to JPG Converter converts PDF to image file (not only JPG). Read on for its review and the giveaway details.
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How to Store a Pages Document As a PDF in iBooks [iPad]
By | August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment
It’s something that seems like it should be easy, but it isn’t. Working in Pages on an iPad, if you create a document you want to use later, the logical progression of thought is to save it as a .PDF and store it in iBooks. However, getting it there isn’t an easy process. It actually takes more steps than you would imagine, and involves going back to your Mac or PC as well.
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LeapDoc: Easily Push Documents to Your iOS Device
By | July 4, 2011 | 1 Comment
Technology is moving at a pretty quick clip these days, so much so that it can be hard to keep up with. Now that transferring documents wirelessly has become desirable, applications and operating systems are figuring out new ways to do this. The newest application to aid in this process is LeapDoc.
What LeapDoc does is pretty smart and useful. It allows you to convert your document on-the-fly and instantly push them to your iOS devices. LeapDoc works with a pair of coordinating apps on your Windows or Mac computer and your iOS-enabled device, such as an iPhone or iPad.
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6 Alternative PDF Readers For Windows
By | May 13, 2011 | 4 Comments
Files stored in PDF (Portable Document Format) provide a versatile method of transferring documents without losing formatting and other effects. The file format was originally created by Adobe, however since in recent years Adobe’s PDF reader has become bloated and difficult to use. In this article I will look at six free alternative PDF viewers.
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How to Batch Convert and Resize Images with Converseen
By | April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Converseen is a free and open source batch image converter and resizer. With it, you can quickly and easily convert your images to and from over 100 formats. It is based on Qt4, making it cross-platform, and it uses ImageMagick to handle the heavy lifting. Supported image formats include JPEG, PNG, EXR, SVG, Postscript, TIFF, PDF, and GIF.
Converseen is easy to install and use and will have you on your way to converting and/or resizing your small or large collection of images in just a few simple steps.
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How To Manipulate PDFs with PDF Chain [Linux]
By | April 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
There comes a time when every serious Linux user needs to do something more than read a PDF file. That something could be combining several PDFs into one file, splitting a file into individual pages, or pulling an attachment out of a PDF.
Windows users have it easy. If they’re willing to part with a few hundred dollars, they can use Adobe Acrobat for all of their PDF manipulation needs. On Linux, there’s no one tool that does everything that Acrobat does. The closest is pdftk, a powerful command tool that’s like a Swiss Army Knife for working with PDFs.
pdftk’s strength, and weakness, is that it’s a command line utility. There’s nothing wrong with the command line, but if you only use pdftk once in a while then you’ll probably struggle to remember the commands that you need. Looking at the documentation for pdftk will just slow you down.
So why not go GUI instead, and use PDF Chain?
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How to Open and Mark Up A .Pub File on Your Mac
By | April 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
If you work with Windows users, or with Windows based systems at your job, you know that one of the most annoying things to deal with is the sharing of your incompatible files. Sure, the majority of your files will work well enough, if you deal primarily in jpegs and text documents. What about .Pub files? What can you do if you want to open them on your Mac and maybe make a few notes?
Well, we can use a simple tool to allow you to open them as a PDF. Then once they are readable we can make it up with Preview.
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Quick And Dirty Scanning On The Linux Desktop
By | April 8, 2011 | 3 Comments
Even though we’re supposed to be in the digital age, it’s amazing how much paper and printed matter we still have to deal with. Contracts, receipts, photos, forms. It’s hard to count how many trees have been sacrificed to print those kinds of things.
If you want to try to go paperless, one way to do it is by scanning all of your important documents and archiving them. That can be easier said than done sometimes, though.
Linux has a number of scanning tools, but many of them are big, bulky, or simply don’t work. If your needs are simple or if you need to scan something quickly and with a minimum of fuss and features, you can’t go wrong with Simple Scan and gscan2pdf.
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