Well it’s Friday and time for Fun Finds 4 Business. Today I’d like to share my latest love in the neat-and-simple tools department: a handy little app called Universal Document Converter. How many times have you wanted to post something to the Web and been unable to convert your doc or image to a JPG? Or needed a TIFF instead of GIF? Or wanted to switch from a color file to black-&-white—or maybe to make a PDF instead of just reading one. And you couldn’t without running to a colleague for help, spending the time downloading some soon-to-expire trial version, or making yet another requisition to IT? I don’t know about you but it used to happen to me a lot. Then I found this simple, inexpensive program that will do all these conversions at the touch of a button. Universal Document Converter can convert any document you can print (i.e. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Outlook, MS Access, Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox & Autodesk AutoCAD) to a color or b/w JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PDF, or PNG. And it’s not just for documents—it will also convert illustrations, charts, tables, graphs, spreadsheets, and presentations. I’m sure there are other applications out there that perform similar functions but this one is ultra-simple to use and costs only $69.00 for the first user. Here’s the site & a 1-minute video explaining how it works: http://www.print-driver.com/download/. [video bottom left]
So for those of you working in companies that, regardless or your role or department, provide a constant stream of programs to prevent any conceivable conversion problem… well, lucky you. But for the rest of us—or for your home use—this is a helpful resource worth considering.
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