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When we read a paper book or newspaper, sometimes we add comments or notes to some important paragraph and sentences. This can be easily archived in a PDF document on a computer, and it’s much easier when you are using a Mac, as the Preview, which is default installed on all Macs, also allows users to add comments to PDF (which is a popular format for electronic documents sharing and archiving) or add notes to PDF to call attention.

To add comments to PDF, you can follow the steps below.

Step1, click Tools button > choose Annotate Tool > choose Tools > Annotation > Text Annotation;

Step2, drag in the document until the note is the size you want > Double-click the note to add notes to PDF;
Step3, when you’re done, resize the note to make sure you can see all its text, and move it so it doesn’t cover any other notes;
Step4, select another tool, and when the process to add comments to PDF is done, you can directly save the PDF now.

Tips: Before you save the PDF, you can also edit or delete the PDF comments. To move or resize the comments box, just choose Tools > Annotate Tool; to edit the comments’ text, choose Tools > Annotate Tool, and double-click the note; to delete the note, choose Tools > Annotate Tool, select the note, and press Delete. After you save a PDF, the contents, size, and position of any notes you added cannot be changed.

By the way to add notes to PDF document, you can provide feedback or point out something you want to remember. It’s much easier to add notes to a PDF document:

First, click Annotate in the toolbar and choose Note;

Second, click the spot where you want to add PDF notes;

Third, enter your note’s text. The note is to the left of the icon, beyond the edge of the page. You may need to scroll to see it.

You can also change the note’s icon and color if need: choose Tools > Show Inspector > change icon and color.

In fact, Apple’s preview has some other features, allows users to annotate PDF on Mac, add text to images, add bookmark to PDF, merge many PDF files to one, print multiple images on one page, etc.

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Google is known as the search engine giant in most people’s eyes, but few knows Google Docs, which is an excellent alternative to Microsoft Office. And it’s totally free to use if you have a Google account.

Google Docs provides many word processing features. You can either create a new document, spreadsheet or presentation or upload an existing file to the system.  

Google Docs is compatible with the most common file formats as below:

• Comma Separated Value files (.csv)
• Hypertext markup language (HTML) files
• Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel files (.doc, .ppt or .pps, and .xls, respectively)
• OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet formats (.odt and .ods, respectively)
• Rich text format (.rtf)
• StarOffice documents (.sxw)
• Text files (.txt)

And it provides users much free storage space, at most 1 GB for the free user account, each account can have up to:

• 5,000 documents of up to 500 kilobytes each
• 1,000 spreadsheets of up to 1 megabyte each
• 5,000 presentations of up to 10 megabytes each

If you need more storage space, you just need to pay another$0.25/GB per year.

The most attractive point is that users can make scanned PDF editable with Google Docs.

This is a brief introduction to Google Docs, you can go to How Google Docs works for detail information.

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21^st century is the internet world. Nowadays, people dumped the traditional fax machine to pursue the electronic fax as it’s more convenient and make our office works easier. But sometimes we would rather to use PDF format for some important work files, as PDF has been prevalent. How to convert fax to PDF? You just need a fax to PDF converter.

Batch Fax to PDF converter is a professional fax to PDF converter which supports to convert .apf, .awd, .bfx, .cals, .cal, .mil, .ras, .img, .gp4, .dcx, .fmf, .fxd, .fxm , .fxr, .fxs, .g3f, .g3n, .ds, .qfx, .tif, and .tiff fax files to .pdf, and other Group 3 and Group 4 compressed fax like .g3, .g31d, .g32d, .g4, .mh, .mr, .mmr, and .raw fax to .pdf in batches. Meanwhile, it doesn’t need Adobe Reader.

More feature of Batch Fax to PDF Converter

1. Create much more smaller PDF files in size
2. Keep the converted file’s date and time optionally
3. Supports both GUI and command line mode
4. No need of Adobe Acrobat

Note: awd fax is supported on win2000/xp (not win9x/winMe) family, and you need download awd patch (it’s free), run it to setup before you can convert awd fax to PDF with Batch Fax to PDF Converter.

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How to convert Word to PDF? People will say there are many PDF Creators can do this job. But sometimes people only deal with Word and PDF, and PDF Creator is more expensive, so we’d better use Word to PDF converter which is more economic. Here I introduce two ways for all of you to convert Word to PDF.

1. Use Zamzar

Zamzar is an online file converter. Besides convert Word to PDF, People can convert files from one kind of format to another format, or convert one format video to another. So, first upload your word document and choose PDF as output format, then type your mail address, then click convert.

The only drawback is after convert Word to PDF format, the link in word cannot work in PDF document.

2. Use Word to PDF Converter

There is lots of free Word to PDF converters, their outputs is nearly the same with above Zamzar. Here I recommend Simpo Word to PDF. It’s very simple to convert Word to PDF, totally two steps.

Step1: Launch the program, and click “Add files” to import Word documents.

Step2: Click Convert button, then your word document is starting converting into PDF format. If you need, you can also set the path for the output file.

Tips: By using Simpo Word to PDF, people never need to worry about the link will be disable. And before convert Word to PDF, you can also set the profile for the output file. In the setting, you can set the full information and high security copyright protection.

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