PDF guides
How to get pdf jobs done in the browser — and what each choice costs you. Each guide links to the tool that does it.
How to rotate PDF pages
Fixing sideways scans permanently, why your reader's rotate button is not the same thing, and why it costs nothing.
1 min readpdfHow to extract pages from a PDF
Pulling out the pages you need, why it is often better than compressing, and the privacy point people miss.
1 min readpdfHow to split a PDF
Breaking one document into several, when splitting is the right answer rather than extracting, and what each part keeps.
1 min readpdfHow to merge PDF files
Combining documents into one, why the order matters more than people expect, and what survives the merge.
1 min readpdfPDF vs JPG: which should you send?
They solve different problems. When a document should stay a document, when an image is the better answer, and how to convert either way.
2 min readpdfHow to prepare a PDF for email
The real attachment limits, and the order of operations that gets a document under them without destroying what makes it useful.
1 min readpdfHow images affect PDF file size
Why one photo can outweigh a hundred pages of text, what happens when you paste an image into a document, and how to keep a PDF small at source.
2 min readpdfHow to reduce PDF file size
Work out what is making the file big first, then pick the method that costs you least — which is often not the compressor.
2 min readpdfWhy scanned PDFs are so large
A scan is a stack of photographs, not a document. What scanner settings actually control the size, and what you can do after the fact.
2 min readpdfHow PDF compression works
Why a PDF is large in the first place, the two very different ways of shrinking one, and the trade Dexta's compressor makes that you need to know about.
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