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A-PDF offers several PDF utilities. Of interest today is a little utility called A-PDF Merger that will take a bunch of PDF files and merge them into one big one. You can actually do this by hacking the postscript code but life is too short. I think most of us would just want to say, “here take these 17 short PDF’s and convert them into one big one.”

It is very easy to use — just open its window, tell it what files you want to use, put them in the order you want and say merge. You can even pick and choose certain pages of any source document, or interleave two documents.

A-PDF products are try-free-ware. You can use it free as long as you don’t mind the watermark. For professional use, this little utility is not expensive. (I don’t blog the exact price because such things can go out of date if they raise it.) Download here, and happy PDF-ing. (PS: They also have other utilities too, including one that will unprotect a protected PDF. )

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Yes you read it right… Print your blog. Of course you could always just print the web pages, but this widget delivers my recent posts as a high res PDF, and it can do the same for your blog. When I don’t have time to write a full blog post, I just spread something cool like this. Of course this is the free version–you have to pay for your lovely graphics and logos to be included. My insight and prediction for the future: This sort of company has a limited life span. PDF-izing features will be incorporated as part of the next generation of blogging software, just as they are in the current generations of MS Word and Open Office (like MS office suite only FREE in case you never heard of it.)

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