You have downloaded a form for
your child’s admission in a school.
However, you don’t have any printer at home. You rushed to the nearest Internet café to
download the form and simultaneously print it out. Once you reached the
internet café, you discovered that the internet connection wasn’t working. You
rushed to another internet café nearby. You discovered that they charge 20
bucks minimum for internet and additional 5 bucks per page to print.
You can avoid 50% of this hassle
by saving the page locally to your computer and take it to the internet café
through an USB drive. There are number of ways that you can save a page.
However, the one that I am going to discuss here is printing through PDF. There
are number of companies provide this option. Among all these, I like CutePDF
the most. The basic version of CutePDF is free. Once you install in your
machine, it is ready and it doesn’t need any specific configuration.
Installable is available from the below website
Once you ready to print your
file, print it as usual. This will give you a printer selection box and you can
see the CutePDF-noPrinter.
Once you select CutePDF, the
system will prompt you to save the PDF in your local machine. You can customize
the PDF printout as you can do with any other printers. This is used by many
people at home where they don’t have any access to the printer. But many people
don’t know that there are higher versions of CutePDF, which provides enhanced
functionality. Needless to say that you have to pay license fee for the higher
versions.
Cute PDF Form Filler – In case
the admission form is writeable, you can fill up the form in your local
computer and while printing through PDF, it captures the filled up words as
well. This is really helpful, when you have to fill up multiple forms and only a
certain portion of the data needs to be altered. You can also apply 128 bit
encryption or password protection to your document. There are other enhanced
features that you can refer when you purchase the license. As on this day, a
single license of this product costs $29.95.
So, next time you are required to
print something, save it as PDF in your pen drive and take it to the nearest
café for quick printing (and as well as saving few bucks).
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