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In this post we will review some of the free PDF convertors and readers currently available and look at whether they offer any accessibility benefits for users.

While I have recommended PDFCreator in the past, I have now moved to Bullzip PDF Printer as my personal favorite. It has more of the options I need and has worked flawless for me. A problem with Bullzip is that the pdf file created may not be searchable. While it created a searchable pdf from word processing programs it did not from other programs like Excel. All the other candidates produced a searchable document from Excel and other non-word-processing software.

. Key features of Bullzip PDF Printer include:

The ability to password protect your pdf files (only PrimoPDF and PDFCreator also had this ability) The ability use either 40 or 128 bit encryption on the file (only PDFCreator also had this ability) The ability to add a watermark (PDF Creator had a limited ability to add watermarks) The ability to append or prepend files (PrimoPDF and PDFCreator also had this ability) The ability to choose different levels of output quality (All but CutePDF and TinyPDF had this ability) The ability to add/change metadata (PrimoPDF and PDFCreator also had this ability) Visit Bullzip PDF

PDFCreator is still my second choice and has all the features of Bullzip with the exception of a 64 bit version and more limited watermark abilities. The help files are available Read the rest of this entry »

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