How to transform to PDF

Have you been asked to convert some Word documents to PDF files and you don’t know how to do it? Would you like to take a series of images you have saved on your computer and collect them into a PDF document to share online? Can I help you.

I know of online services and free applications for Mac and Windows that allow you to take any file, be it an Office document, an image or a Web page, and transform it into a PDF compatible with all devices.

If you want to deepen the subject, take five minutes of free time and find out how to transform all your documents into PDF thanks to the instructions below. You will be surprised at how simple it is.

If you do not have to convert particularly “large” files, you can rely on online solutions such as SmallPDF that allows you to transform any Word document, JPEG image, Excel sheet or PowerPoint presentation into PDF directly from the browser. It is completely free, requires no registration and has no upload limits. Furthermore, it protects users’ privacy by deleting all files uploaded to its servers within 1 hour.

To use it, connect to its home page and choose the type of conversion you want to perform: JPG to PDF to obtain a document starting from a series of images; Word to PDF to transform DOC / DOCX files to PDF; Excel to PDF to create PDF from Excel sheets or PPT to PDF to convert PowerPoint presentations to PDF.

Then drag the file you want to transform into PDF in the browser window, wait for it to be uploaded online, processed, and download the final result on your PC by clicking on the Download file button . All conversions require the uploading of a maximum of one file at a time, except for that of JPG images which – as already mentioned – allows you to create PDFs starting from an unlimited series of photos; it even offers the possibility to reorder the images before processing.

Do you need to transform a large number of files into PDF and don’t want to waste time installing new programs on your PC? No problem. More rely on ZamZar : one of the most famous online converters in the world which, unlike SmallPDF, allows you to convert multiple documents at the same time.

It supports Office documents, images and many other file types. It has an upload limit of 100MB overall, requires no registration, but requires a valid email address to provide file download links. As for privacy, files uploaded by users are instantly deleted from the service’s servers after conversion, while converted files remain online for 24 hours.

To convert your files with ZamZar, connected to the home page of the site and drag them to the Step 1 box , then set the PDF option in the Step 2 drop-down menu , type your e-mail address in the Step 3 field and press the Convert button . Time a few minutes and you will receive the links to download the PDFs directly by email.

In case you need to process particularly “heavy” documents, I suggest you opt for offline solutions such as Bullzip PDF Printer , a virtual printer for Windows that allows you to transform any type of printable content into PDF. So let’s talk about Office files, web pages, photos, presentations and much more.

The program is also free for professional purposes (it supports a maximum number of 10 users) and does not imprint logos on the documents it generates. To download it to your PC, connect to the official website and click on the You can download it here link   under Community Edition . Then start the installation package Setup_BullzipPDFPrinter_xx_FREE.exe and click first on  Yes  and then on  OK  and  Next .

At this point, accept the terms of use of the software by placing the check mark next to the item  I accept the terms of the license agreement  and complete the setup by first clicking on  Next  five consecutive times and then on  Install  and  Finish . During the procedure, essential components for the operation of the virtual printer are downloaded to the PC, so it is necessary to have an active Internet connection.

The operation of the software is very simple. At the end of the installation, open the document you need to transform into PDF , call Print (or Print ) from the File menu and select Bullzip PDF Printer as printer.

In the window that opens, use the General tab to choose the folder in which to save the document; the Document tab to set the PDF metadata (author, title, subject etc.) and the Security tab to set, if you want, a password protection for the file. Then press OK to start virtual printing.

The Watermark and PDF Merge tabs give access to two optional Bullzip functions: the first allows you to imprint a custom watermark on the pages of the document to be generated, the second allows you to add the content of an existing PDF to the document being “printed”.

If you have a Mac you will find a virtual printer that is already integrated “as standard” on your computer. All you have to do is open the document to convert to PDF, call the Print function from the File menu and select the Save as PDF option  from the PDF drop-down menu   located at the bottom left (in the window that opens).

For specific information on converting files to PDF, I also invite you to read my tutorials on how to convert JPEG to PDF , how to convert a Word file to PDF , how to convert Excel file to PDF and how to convert XPS to PDF.