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One of the challenges we face as we upload documents to our blogs or send them as attachments to an email is that the person trying to open those documents might not have the application to open them. You also might want to convert the document so that it cannot be changed after it’s downloaded.

One solution is to convert your document as a pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format) file before uploading or attaching it. Anyone can open a pdf document with Adobe Reader, available free on the web (http://www.adobe.com). There is also a free tool available on the web to convert your documents to pdf format before uploading or attaching them called PrimoPDF (http://www.primopdf.com). This tool will allow you to create PDFs from any printable document.