Open and view PDF documents online with PDFescape
Posted on March 10, 2008 at 6:48 am
PDF is one of the most popular document format used today. One of the reasons why it is so popular is because files that are converted to the PDF format are very small in size, making it easy for distributing online. There are many free PDF document viewer that you can download and use, which indirectly increases the popularity of PDF formatted documents.
However, there may be times when you just don’t have the privilege of having a PDF viewer installed, for example in a public computer. In this case, you can use PDFescape to open and view your pdf documents online.
What PDFescape Does
PDFescape is a new way to open and view a pdf file, which becomes especially useful when there is no pdf viewer available. With PDFescape, you can upload your document to the PDFescape website to open it. Even better, if you bump into an online pdf document that you want to read, you can copy the file URL and open it with PDFescape, without having to download the file to your computer first. Next, you can view the document as you normally do offline, edit and save the document to your disk drive.
There are a few advantages of using PDFescape, which are:
- All actions – open, view, edit and save pdf documents are completely done online.
- You don’t have to download a big program just to read a simple pdf document.
- Read an online pdf document without having to download it first.
- You can connect existing pdf forms from your website to PDFescape, let your users fill in the forms with PDFescape tools and email it to you later. A completely paper less form filling process!
PDFescape Features
PDFescape can’t edit the original, built-in pdf text but you can add some extra, useful bells and whistles to your pdf document. Here are PDFescape’s features:
- Able to open a newly uploaded, online or recently open pdf documents.
- Easy to use interface with familiar icons and menu bar.
- Speedy – opens an online pdf file quickly, I’ve tried it myself!
- Bookmark view for easy document navigation.
- Save progress – you can save your documents any time that you want. Useful for unstable internet connection usage.
- Multiple tools with changeable object properties to edit your PDF documents:
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- Text – add extra notes into pdf document.
- Checkmark – for marking important sections of document.
- Whiteout – to erase portions of a document.
- Arrow – useful for pointing / relate sections inside a document.
- Link – create link to a particular page, URL or email.
- Form field – useful to create an online pdf form, available in two objects: text field and checkbox.
- Line – for underlining important phrases inside a document.
- Rectangle, Circle – add extra shapes inside to your pdf document. Colors and border thickness can be changed. Transparency color fill is also available.
- Change document information – you can edit the file name, title, author, subject and keywords.
- Print document support.
- Save / download edited pdf documents to your computer.
You can store your pdf documents online at PDFescape for 30 days maximum for the free account. There are some other limitations too – you can only open a pdf file with less that 25 pages or less than 10MB in size. Additionally, PDFescape edited and saved file will be stamped with an unobtrusive logo of the product at the top and bottom of the page. Having said all that, PDFescape still offers a good deal for users that want to open, edit and pdf documents online, without breaking a sweat. Register for a free PDFescape account and try it today!
You can also check out previous post on how to convert PDF to Word, JPG, and Excel formats.
This is a guest post by Syahid A. from TechMalaya
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looks like a nice bit of software, thanks for sharing