Written on March 25, 2008 – 1:07 pm | by Ross |

PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It was created by Adobe Systems.

PDF files look exactly like the original, regardless of what application created them.

This is especially important as the internet uses HTML and this does not preserve the formatting and presentation of documents.

Openoffice.org is an open-source (that means free!) version of Microsoft’s popular Office Suite. You get everything you need, including a replica of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and more.

OpenOffice also allows you to convert your Word documents into PDF instantly. It’s a really handy free tool that saves you hundreds of dollars in costs and even does more than Microsoft Office does!

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I personally use Open Office for creating PDF ebooks and Reports.

Here is a Youtube Video from Kevin Riley explaining how to use Open Office