Guides
What we learned building the tools, written down so it is useful even if you use something else. No tricks, no promises a file format cannot keep.
How to shrink a PDF so it fits in an email
Why your PDF weighs 30 MB, which part of it is heavy, how far you can compress it without ruining it, and what to do when it still does not fit the 25 MB limit.
Read the guidePDF to Word: what survives the conversion and what does not
Why a PDF and a Word document are built in opposite ways, what comes back editable (text, styles, tables, images) and what no converter can give you back.
Read the guideJPG or PNG when turning PDF pages into images?
Which format to pick for each kind of page, what DPI really means for the file size, and how to avoid the blurry text everybody gets the first time.
Read the guideTurn a PowerPoint into a PDF without installing anything
Why you should send a PDF instead of a .pptx, what a PDF keeps from a presentation, what it cannot keep, and how to check the result before you send it.
Read the guideHow to get a table out of a PDF and into Excel
How a table is detected inside a PDF, why 1.240 sometimes means one thousand and sometimes one point two, and how to check the numbers arrived as numbers.
Read the guideWhy a tool that runs in your browser is more private
What happens to your file when you upload it to a converter, what changes when the work is done on your own device, and how to check which one you are using.
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