Adobe Acrobat PDF Creation (print & e-book)

PDF refers to Adobe Acrobat's Portable Document Format. This is a file format that can be read on any system using Adobe Acrobat Reader. (Adobe Reader is free to download here.) A PDF can be viewed on most major operating systems while retaining the original document formatting. This makes it an ideal format for e-publishing as well as printing, and it has become an industry standard.

With an Adobe Acrobat PDF, you can:

sell your book as an e-book
send your formatted book to a printer
publish your book to the web

PDFs can also be password protected so that others cannot:

open the document without a password
print the document without a password
make changes to the document without a master password
copy or extract text without a master password
add or change comments or form fields without a master password

We offer the following PDF Creation Services:

1. Standard PDF Creation: This includes converting your formatted Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org document to a high quality, printer-ready PDF.

2. E-book Enhanced PDF Creation: When your print book is complete, you will have a printer-ready PDF, suitable for sending to a printer or selling online as an e-book; however, having your work customized specifically for Internet distribution can increase your options. Here are some of the choices that can enhance your e-book:

Active hyperlinks - If your book contains URLs, your e-book can contain links that will take readers to relevant web pages directly from your book.

Active table of contents - By clicking on a link in your table of contents, readers can go directly to the appropriate page.

Active sidebar - PDFs are equipped with sidebar menus, allowing readers to display the document text and a custom menu or outline of the document at the same time, allowing them to go directly to specific pages or sections within the work.

Color images - While color printing is still far from cost effective in print, e-books do not have this limitation. You may include as many color images as you want without having to worry about per-page print costs. Note: the primary limitation here is in file size. You don't want your book to be too large to download or view easily.

Password protection - When sending your work to a publisher or printer, you cannot employ password protection options; however, when distributing your work online, you may choose to have a password that enhances document security. You may choose to disallow text copying, text changes, or printing. You may also set the password so that readers cannot open the file without it.

Contact us for specific rate information. We can create a printer-ready PDF from a pre-formatted file for as little as $20.00. (All formatting services include your printer-ready PDF free of charge!) E-book rates are based on the number of hyperlinks or chapters to be made active in the file and begin at $50.00.

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