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Zamzar: A solution for most of your needs. Convert Document, Image, Music and Video Formats (even YouTube videos!). Exact conversion types listed here. 05/09/07 PrimoPDF: FREE. Recommended to me by several professionals. "Convert to PDF from any file you can print...from 300+ file types...optimize for print, screen, ebook, or prepress." OR you can purchase their nitroPDF Professional: "Create, edit, view, secure, form fill, annotate and sign PDF files; and do it all on-screen." (free 14 day trial) 04/03/08 OpenOffice: A complete FREE office suite that can also export to PDF very well. PDF Converter at PDF Online: Convert MANY file types to PDF for FREE! "There's nothing to install As a web based service, PDF Online allows you to quickly generates PDF from your PC, Mac, or Linux, from your home, your office or anywhere in the world." 06/15/06 PDFCreator: A free application that "easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application." 12/01/05 Pdf995 (FREE download) "makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer. Pdf995 supports network file saving, fast user switching on XP, Citrix/Terminal Server, custom page sizes and large format printing. Pdf995 is a printer driver that works with any Postscript to PDF converter. The pdf995 printer driver and a free Converter are available for easy download." 03/29/04 Free Easy PDF: This FREE application "allows you to create PDF documents, using a Word-style interface. You can apply all standard word processing options like text formatting, tables, images (BMP format) and more and then convert it to PDF format in a single click. This version is free and allows for basic formatting. Additional features and import options are available in commercial versions." 11/23/02 FREE office suites and other software/utilities: Useful list if you want clones for MS Office compatibility, pdf utilties, databases, presentations, accounting software, etc. 10/17/02 PDF Factory; FinePrint: Two little applications that convert to or create pdf documents out of a variety of file formats, with a lower pricetag than Adobe's PDF Writer. 09/22/02 Spoken Text: FREE online text-to-audio converter. Spoken Text records from PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and convert them to speech automatically. The files are saved as MP3s so you can listen to them on your favorite audio device. "Our goal is to make the conversion of text to speech as simple as possible and in so doing make it accessible to everyone. The vast majority of the technology we use in our daily lives are way too complicated and overwhelms us with unneeded options and features. To this end we focused on providing a quick and simple way to convert your text content into spoken audio, for listening to on an iPod or your computer." 10/26/07 PDF to almost anything: BCL Technologies have various solutions, including PDF to Word, PDF to RTF, PDF to HTML, PDF to tiff, jpeg, bmp, and Extract PDF Contents. 03/22/04 FREE Online Document Publishing in PDF or HTML: "goBCL can publish your document into PDF or HTML file format for free. All of the processes will take place in our server." Hey, it's FAST too! 10/02/01 PDF to HTML:
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Powerpoint Tools Spoken Text: FREE online text-to-audio converter can convert from PPT. See entry above. 10/26/07 Create a Podcast using Powerpoint: Randolph Decker's eGram posting about a quick technique for converting your favorite Powerpoint presentations into podcasts. 10/19/06 List of Powerpoint To Flash conversion tools: Robin Good's "PPT2Flash Top20". Robin asks, "Why Would You Ever Want to Convert a Powerpoint Presentation into a Flash File?" and gives us a "detailed list of the key advantages for converting a PowerPoint presentation into a Flash file. No matter what your final goal is, a Flash-based presentation goes a long way in making your content easily accessible and distributable." 05/16/07 Powerpoint Compression & Optimization: Diehard MS Powerpoint fans are always looking for ways to optimize the usually-big files for browser use inside online courses, etc. The following two tools were mentioned recently on the webct users' list. Each one was praised highly by the person who recommended it. Both have a free trial and a low cost when you want to purchase it. 10/31/06
Powerpoint with Breeze ~ Delivering Instructionally Sound Content with PowerPoint & Breeze: "Not many eLearning developers or instructional designers think of PowerPoint as a tool for building online courses. Surprisingly, PowerPoint is the second most frequently used tool for creating computer-based training applications – Dreamweaver being number one. The truth is that PowerPoint, when used correctly, can help you create rich, compelling, and instructionally sound eLearning content....In fact, most people have created some kind of presentation with the tool. It's not difficult. Given these facts it's easy to see why leveraging PowerPoint in the development of online content and eLearning would make sense. It's a tool that SMEs already know how to use. Using Macromedia Breeze and PowerPoint to create and deploy online courses also makes sense. With Breeze, anyone with basic knowledge of PowerPoint can easily add narration, animation, quizzes, and surveys to PPT content and publish that content efficiently over the web via Flash Player." 02/08/06 Powerpoint Converter Shootout: "We put 12 teams to the test to find out who has the technology for repurposing PowerPoint presentations into self-paced learning content. Each team had only 20 minutes to convert the PowerPoint into an e-learning course. Here are the results... 04/05/04 Powerpoint Classroom Games: "Mark E. Damon has been kind enough to share all of his entertaining creations so that you may download them NOW for use in your classroom. These PowerPoint™ presentations can be modified with your own questions to create an interactive review or test for your students." 11/26/03 Powerpoint to Flash! -- PresentationPro's PowerCONVERTER: Converts your Powerpoint presentations to Flash files. Update your older presentations for today's technology; make them more useful for online courses, etc. 05/28/02 Powerpoint to Flash -- Impatica for PowerPoint: "...simply converts the PowerPoint file into a compressed format that is optimized for streaming over the Internet. The Impatica file is typically 95% smaller than the PowerPoint HTML files...supports most of the features of PowerPoint, including text, graphics, transitions, animation effects and, of course, narration." A reviewer says: "The good: A supremely simple packing tool for PowerPoint presentations.he bad: Too pricey for casual users." 10/08/02 Powerpoint to PDF -- Prep4PDF: "A new PPTool that preserves the links, action settings, sounds and other interactive features of your PowerPoint presentations when you convert them to Adobe Acrobat PDF format." 11/12/04 Producer: "Microsoft Producer is a free add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint® version 2002 ... helps you capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images—resulting in engaging rich-media presentations viewable on demand in a Web browser." 11/14/01
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