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3 Tools To Merge JPG Images Into A PDF File

3 Tools To Merge JPG Images Into A PDF File

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Sometimes we needs to merge multiple JPG images into a single PDF document. This is usually the case when we want to create an e-book out of scanned images. In this article, we will discuss some free tools to create a PDF document of your images quickly. We will also see a solution using the Microsoft One Note 2013.

FM JPG to PDF Converter converts image files and folders to PDF

FM JPG to PDF converter  is a tool that enables you to merge multiple JPEG images  and save them in the form of a PDF file. It  allows you to add, remove and arrange the image files. You can also add an entire folder containing the JPG images and you will be saved from adding the files one by one.

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To create a PDF file :

  1. Click the Add button and select the image files you want to merge.
  2. Click on the up and down arrows to move images up or down.
  3. It has a preview pane also, so that you may add or remove any file from the list by clicking on Remove button.
  4. Set the output properties of the file.
  5. Click the Start button.
  6. If you want to create another file, click the Clear button to remove all files at once.

fm Jpg pdf converter Output Properties

PDF Mate Merger merges multiple files into a single PDF

PDF Mate Merger is a free PDF merger that can be used to merge multiple files into a single PDF file. We can also merge the images in JPEG format and build a PDF file through it. It is completely free and you can start using it right away without any subscription or registration.

PDF Mate Merger to Merge Jpeg into PDF

PDF Mate Merger sports an easy to use interface that allows you to add any number of files using the Add Files button. You can arrange these files or images in any order using the Up and Down button. Right click on any file name and you will the associated options in the context menu form. You may use Remove button to drop any image which is mistakenly added.

You may need to adjust the output settings according to your requirements using the ‘Output Settings’ options at the bottom. Oh wow! We can add a password to our file as well. Don’t forget to set the layout or it will be set automatically. Now, click the Build button and your PDF file is created.

Using OneNote 2013 to create PDF from Images

You may have used your OneNote to create and maintain your work diaries. How about using the One Note 2013 to merge your JPEG images into a PDF file? The trick is simple and gets you rid off any expensive PDF Merger tool.

  • Select the images that you want to merge.
  • Right click on it.
  • Select Send to One Note 2013.
  • Open your OneNote and see the images there. Arrange them as you like.
  • Go to File -> Export -> Select the ‘Section’. (I assume that your images are pasted in a section).
  • Select PDF format.
  • Click Export.
  • Specify the file name and location.
  • Click save.

One Note to Merge Jpeg into PDF

If you are converting images to PDF files frequently then a dedicated tool like the two mentioned above would be more useful. For occasionally getting your task done, you can use OneNote which is also better suited for creating PDF files from different kinds of multimedia content and not images only.

Which tool do you support? List down your favorite tool for converting images into PDF files.

Edit PDF Files Online And Offline [Complete Guide]

Edit PDF Files Online And Offline [Complete Guide]

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Portable Document Format (PDF) a document format by Adobe. There are many ways to edit PDF files both online and offline. Although the original tool from Adobe, Adobe Acrobat Professional, is quite expensive, we will discuss about some free PDF file editors which can be used in different situations.

You may want to go through the following articles before actually proceeding with the PDF editors:

Download Adobe Reader XI which is the latest version of Adobe Reader.

Use Nitro PDF Reader with enhanced functionality of Adobe Reader.

You can password protect PDF files as well as convert them into images.

PDFescape – Edit PDF Files Online

PDFescape is a great online service to edit PDF files online without any registration. You can start with a new document, edit an existing document by uploading it to the service or even directly give the URL of the PDF document on the Internet. You won’t find the interface very friendly.

The ‘Insert’ tab will be selected by default. Click on the Text and drag the text box anywhere on the page. Type your text and then customize it by selecting the appropriate font size and style. You can also insert any link, image or even draw any thing using the ‘Freehand’ tool.

PDFescape edit PDF files online

You can also highlight your material. Click ‘Annotate’, select Highlight and then hover the cursor over the text to be highlighted. You can also add a sticky note, provided next to ‘Highlight’. When you are done with your document, you may like to save, print or even share it. In the left hand panel, you will find the save, download and print document options. You may also share your documents online, but you need to register for this option.

The tool works really fine however there are some limitations such as you can upload a file of maximum 10 MB and 100 pages. Similarly, you can create a document containing 25 pages only.

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Infix PDF Editor: Edit PDFs like a Word Processor

Infix PDF Editor is another tool that offers three different editing modes; professional, standard and the form filling mode. Whenever you will open the Infix PDF Editor, it will ask your preferred working mode. If you want to edit PDF forms, select ‘Form Filling’ mode. I have selected the Professional mode so as to demonstrate the maximum options. Since, we have seen how to create a new PDF document so let’s move on to editing an existing document now.

Go to File -> Open -> Browse and select your required document. If we want to edit the heading of this document, click on the heading and a box will appear surrounding the text. Type in the new heading. You can then apply different formatting on it.

Infix PDF Editor
Go to File menu –> Text –> Font, Size, Style, align and few other options are available.
But PDF editing is more complicated than simple text editing. You may need to extract or delete a single page or a range of pages from the document. You can also re-arrange your documents by swapping different pages.
File Menu –> Document –> Pages –> Extract and specify the page numbers.
File Menu –> Document –> Pages –> Re-order and specify the details.

Re-order pages

To create a watermark, do the following:

File Menu –> Document –> Watermark –> Add and a dialog box will appear.

Add watermark
Add the desired watermark. Similarly, you can find the ‘Security’ option below it to add some restrictions to your document. It also provides OCR correction option in the same Document Menu.

The problem with Infix PDF editor is that it inserts a watermark inside PDF documents created with it. The watermark can only be removed if you are using a paid version of the program.

Infix PDF Editor

‘Smart PDF Creator Pro’ and ‘Apex All in One PDF Tool’ are also full-fledged and paid PDF editing software designed for professionals. They provide the maximum options such as editing text, split/merge PDF, extract/delete pages, insert watermarks create bookmarks or add security to your document.

Microsoft Word 2013

Microsoft Word 2013 comes with this privileged feature of being able to edit PDF documents. You can open nay PDF document in Word 2013 and also save the document with all the editing. You can also create a new document in Word 2013 and save it as PDF after editing.

Word 2013 save as PDF

The beauty of editing a PDF document in Microsoft Word 2013 is that it also retains most of the formatting like tables etc. while editing the documents inside Word. You can always download Microsoft Office 2013 final version and use Word 2013 as a PDF editor for free.

What is your favorite PDF editing tool?

Download Nitro PDF 3 With Auto Save And PDF Editing Features

Download Nitro PDF 3 With Auto Save And PDF Editing Features

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Nitro PDF Reader 3

Nitro PDF Reader is a free and light weight PDF reader, a direct competitor to Adobe Reader which seems to be bulky and inefficient. Nitro PDF version 3 has been released and is available for download for free.

The biggest feature change if Nitro PDF 3 is the capability to view as well as edit the PDF documents. You can also convert any document to PDF using the PDF printing ability of Nitro PDF 3. All the PDF documents created with this software are compatible with all standard PDF editors and readers.

Nitro Reader 3 ribbon interface

Nitro PDF Reader 3 lets you create PDF files from 300+ different file types including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. You can create the PDF files using the following methods:

  1. Create from file
  2. Print to PDF
  3. Drag and drop

This nifty software also includes some collaborative and review features which can be very beneficial for corporate users. The following three collaboration features are included in version 3.

  1. Markup text: Attach comments to text highlights, cross-outs and underlines.
  2. Sticky notes: Add simple note annotations to text, image or anything else in a document.
  3. Summarize comments: Sort comments by type, page, author, date, color and more.

Create PDF from file

QuickSign is another free feature of Nitro PDF Reader 3. You can setup a QuickSign profile and then add your digital signatures to all the PDF files with a single click.

Nitro PDF Reader 3 comes with an online installer meaning that the installer will download the required files after running the setup. The online installer can be downloaded from here. We are also including the offline installers of 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Nitro Reader 3.

Download Nitro PDF Reader 3 64-bit offline installer

Download Nitro PDF Reader 3 32-bit offline installer

3 Free Tools To Password Protect PDF Files

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Portable Document Format (PDF) is the most widely used standard to share documents across the web and different platforms. The greatest feature of PDF file is that it looks the same across any platform and in any environment. PDF format is the perfect format to share documents across multiple platforms. There are several features of PDF files including password protection.

A PDF document can easily be password protected. Let’s see how we can password protect a PDF document. There are two ways to password a PDF document for free. One is using a software and the other is using an online service to password protect a PDF document. We will be discussing three tools which are a mix of both ways of password protection.

PrimoPDF

PrimoPDF by Nitro PDF Software is the best free PDF creator software. You can easily convert a Word or Excel document into a PDF document. PrimoPDF only requires drag and drop operations in order to convert a document. After installation, PrimoPDF will create a shortcut on the desktop. You can drag and drop any file to that shortcut to automatically convert the document into PDF.

PrimoPDF options for password protecting a document

If you double click the shortcut, you will be taken to PrimoPDF options. You can create a password under PDF security. If you want to use the same password for every converted document, then you can check the checkbox “Always use these settings” otherwise uncheck it so that these settings can only be used on the next document to be converted.

PrimoPDF password security

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PDFProtect

The second solution is an online solution. The online solution is the best when you want to password protect a document without installing anything on your computer. But one must take care that they should have a good Internet connection in order to use the online PDF password protecting service. This is because the PDF files need to be uploaded and downloaded again in order to complete the password protection operation.

PDFProtect, password pdf files online

To password protect a document online, go to pdfprotect.net, browse the file and then enter your required password. You can choose the encryption strength to be high or low. If you are using modern PDF readers, then you can leave the encryption level to high or otherwise make it low for maximum compatibility. Pressing the “Protect” button will upload the file to the service and after sometime, you will be prompted to download the password protected file.

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Weeny Free PDF Cutter

Weeny Free PDF Cutter

Although the main purpose of Weeny Free PDF Cutter is to cut and split PDF documents into multiple files but it has also got an option to password protect the PDF files. You can set Weeny Free PDF Cutter such that it does not split the resulting PDF file but password protects the document. You will need to enable password protection under Security settings.

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I hope these tools will be beneficial for you and will help you password protect your sensitive PDF documents. If I have missed anything or you have a suggestion, please share it in the comments below.

Image To PDF Converter: Free Utility To Convert Images to PDF Files

Image To PDF Converter: Free Utility To Convert Images to PDF Files

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Image to PDF Converter is free application that can be used for converting images to PDF files.  The PDF file gives you the option of a friendly printing. The PDF file is also easy to manage than a collection of images. The supported images by this free utility are the JPG, BMP, PNG, TGA, GIF formats. The image to PDF converter will automatically set size of the PDF page so that every image fits on the same page size setting. But you can also change the page width or height as required. The conversion is really fast. It also supports batch conversion. The application does not need Acrobat Reader or any print driver to be installed prior to the conversion of images.

Image to PDF converter free

The image to PDF Converter gives you the choice to set Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, Producer, Page Width and Height of the PDF document. This small application also gives you an option to set the page layout according to predefined sets like A4,A5,B4, Legal and more.

To convert images to PDF simply open the application Click on the Add button and select all the images and click Open. You can also drag n drop the images. Now all the images are in the File List tab. The File List tab shows the file names, path of file, image sizes and the page number. The page number is the page number of generated PDF. So every image is placed on a single PDF page. If you need to move images up and down you can move them by the Up, Down buttons.

When the selection and organization of images is complete, click on the Convert button. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and name the PDF file.  Enter any name and click the Save button. The conversion takes seconds. After the conversion is complete a prompt will appear asking you to view the PDF file that was generated.

Image to PDF Converter is compatible with all Windows Operating Systems including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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Download Flash Player 11.3 Offline Installer Full Setup

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Soon after the release of Adobe Flash Player 11.2 final, Adobe has released the first beta of Flash Player 11.3. There are quite a few interesting and exciting features added to Flash Player 11.3 like full screen keyboard input support and protected mode in Firefox browser. Let’s discuss some of the features of the new Flash Player 11.3.

Features of Flash Player 11.3

Full screen keyboard input — This feature enables support for all keyboard keys available to an embedded SWF running inside of a page without full screen mode( except for  ‘Esc’). It allows developers to determine if the app is in full screen, whether full keyboard input is allowed, and whether the app is able to request full screen (determined by the embed tag parameter).

Low latency audio support for streaming audio through NetStream — This feature aims to reduce latency for high quality streaming audio playback. It addresses a very special use case of cloud gaming, where the game is rendered at a server and audio and video are streamed to the client.

Protected Mode for Firefox — Flash Player Protected Mode is a new security enhancement designed to limit the impact of attacks launched from malicious SWF files against Adobe Flash Player when running in Firefox 4.0+ on Windows Vista and higher. This feature is comparable to the Flash Player Protected Mode in Google Chrome browser, Protected Mode in Adobe Reader, and Office 2010 Protected View.

Flash Player background updates (Mac) — New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player).

Low latency audio support (Sound API) — This enhancement reduces the latency for Sound.play method and changes to volume and pan on SoundTransform. The latency of SAMPLE_DATA event should also be reduced considerably.

Texture Streaming for Stage3D — Provides an ability to upload coarser, lower quality textures on the GPU first and then progressively improve them as more data becomes available.

You can read these features in detail in Flash Player 11.3 release notes PDF document.

Download Flash Player 11.3 (Direct download links to offline installers)

Flash Player 11.3 32-bit and 64-bit universal installers

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Note: I will update the direct download links as Adobe releases new beta or final version of Flash Player 11.3.

Update: Adobe Flash Player 11.3 beta 2 has been released. I have updated the download links accordingly.

Update 4th May, 2012: Adobe Flash Player 11.3 beta 3 has been released. I have updated the download links with the new downloads.

If you are having problems with Flash Player 11.3, you can use the Flash Player 11.3 beta uninstaller in order to uninstall it and revert back to the last stable build.

Update: Adobe Flash Player 11.5 has arrived. Please update.

PDF To JPG Converter Free License Giveaway For Everyone

PDF To JPG Converter Free License Giveaway For Everyone

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PDF to JPG Converter is a tool for converting your PDF into different images. The main feature which differentiates from other tools of this type is that it enables you to select the range of pages to convert and also the dpi scale for obtaining large size images. It is also faster than others.

The PDF document can be converted into jpg, bmp, gif ,png and tif image formats. PDF to JPG Converter also supports batch mode. Just select any folder containing the PDF files and all files are displayed in the list of files to convert. You can select the files to be converted.

PDF to JPG usually costs $29.95 but everyone can get a free license of the software without paying anything. There is a giveaway promotion going on which will end on March 26, 2012.

PDF to JPG Converter

To get your PDF to JPG Converter free license, go here.

Copy the License Key Code and download the setup file. If you are lazy to go to the giveaway page, you can use the following license key:
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To register and use the license key, click on the left bottom corner option Register PDF To JPG Converter Now! . Paste the license key code and viola you’re done. You will need to restart the program in order to start the full and registered version.

The default  output path is set to C:output. Change it to any folder of your choice. If you want to convert a specific range of pages, enter any page number in the value field of “Last Page to Convert”. The default DPI value is 120 which gives a image nearly equal to 100% zoom of pdf page. Conversion is also instantly fast.

Windows Reader: The Built-In PDF Viewer For Windows 8

Windows Reader: The Built-In PDF Viewer For Windows 8

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At last Microsoft has included a basic PDF viewer in Windows 8. It is called Windows Reader. Windows 7 only had the XPS viewer but since PDF format is more widely used, Microsoft has included built-in support for viewing PDF documents. Although it’s a good step towards a better Windows experience, Windows Viewer is too basic for Desktop computing. But it can be a good choice for tablets and smartphones since it is designed with the Metro UI.

If you are using Windows Reader on a PC, you will see that it will open the document in full screen. There is no way to turn the full screen off. The full screen is also designed for better interactivity on a touch based system rather than mouse and clicks.

Windows Reader Open PDF or XPS document

Another limitation of Windows Reader is that it can open only one document at a time. If you try to open another document, the previous open document will be closed.

There is a very basic functionality set of Windows Reader. You can bring up the context menu by moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen and right clicking. The context menu will list all the tasks that you can perform on the currently opened PDF document.

Windows Reader context menu in Windows 8 Consumer Preview

The find button will let you search within the opened PDF document. You can choose whether you want a one page or two page interface to view the PDF document. Continuous will not break the document into pages but it will scroll the document till the end. Open and Save as button will open and save a copy of the document respectively.

The More button will let you see the document properties and permissions. You can also rotate the document according to your will. Again this feature is related to tablets where you can change the orientation of the screen according to yourself.

The same Windows Reader can be used to open PDF as well as XPS documents. Windows Reader is definitely a good start but Microsoft needs to improve it so that it can also be used by PC users in addition to tablets and smartphones. My recommendation is that you should be using a more powerful third party PDF viewer like Adobe Reader if you are on a PC otherwise Windows Reader is also a good choice.