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With the expense of good photo editing software going through the roof, it’s good to have alternatives!

Fotoflexor looks to be one of the best. It sports a function very similar to the Magnetic Lasso tool in Photoshop, and many other great tools, all rolled into a web app! While I cannot access this from the computer at which I am, I will definitely write this down on my to-do list so that I can give a educated review later.  If any of my readers have used this, please let me know your opinion!

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I’ve posted quite a few posts about PDF interaction, but Scribd looks like it has really stepped up to the plate. Check out all the great features it has implemented!

Built for the Cross Platform Web

iPaper
is a document format built for the Internet. Like a YouTube video,
iPaper documents are Flash widgets which you embed in your existing web
pages. PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and many other document formats can all
be displayed on the web using iPaper.

Monetize Your Documents

If
you have documents on your website, you could be missing out on a
monetization opportunity. You advertise on your web pages, why not your
documents? iPaper integrates a sophisticated ad system by Google that
automatically targets ads to the content of your documents (click here to see an example document with ads). By switching to iPaper, you can immediately begin to monetize your documents. All you have to do is collect the checks.

Enhanced Security

Most
document formats are insecure by their very nature – they can be
emailed to anyone, uploaded to websites, and posted on filesharing
networks. Ebook readers often use DRM systems to get around this
problem, but DRM is clumsy and intrusive to the user. Instead, iPaper
has an elegant approach to security. Because it is web-based (and not a
file), you can’t download, upload, or email an iPaper document. And
because iPaper documents are embedded in your webpages, your documents
will naturally inherit your website’s existing security system. If you
want to keep control of your documents, iPaper will let you do it.

Compare iPaper to the Alternatives

Feature	iPaper	PDF	Microsoft Office
Requires Download	No	Sometimes	Yes
Requires software installation	No	Yes	Yes
Embeddable in web pages	Yes	No	No
Cost to create documents	Free	$299	~$150
Offers built-in social features	Yes	No	No
Size of application	96 KB	92,000 KB	~130,000 KB
Option to advertise in documents	Yes	No	No
Highly secure?	Yes	Only with DRM	No
Can contain viruses?	No	Yes	Yes

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I have had the pleasure of using novaPDF Pro before, and I can say that it is a very good alternative to Adobe. Might even have more features too! Give it a try!

novaPDF Professional Desktop

Easily Create High-Quality PDF Files

novaPDF allows you to easily create professional PDF documents from any Windows application that supports printing. These are 100% standard PDF files that can be viewed or printed using any PDF viewer (including Adobe Acrobat).

By using different resolutions or enabling compression, downsampling, and conversions, novaPDF efficiently produces high-quality, searchable PDF files while maintaining the original layout of the source document.

With quick installation and an intelligent user-interface, novaPDF is a breeze to operate. It’s so simple! Once novaPDF is designated as the default printer, you can simply click the “Print” button from any Windows application to have your PDF created.

With novaPDF, anyone — even novice users — can instantly create professional-quality, fully-searchable PDF files.

Key Features:

• Converts any type of printable document (DOC, XLS, PPT, HTML, EML, TXT and much more) into searchable PDF files.
• PDF files can be password protected to control whether the document can be viewed, printed, modified, copied or annotated. Supports 40-bit and 128-bit encryption levels.
• PDF bookmarks. Automatically detects headings in the printed document and adds bookmarks to the generated PDF files.
• You can choose a default page size (Letter, Legal, A3, A4, A5, A6, etc…) or define your own. Set printing resolutions from 72 dpi to 2400 dpi.
• PDF Watermarks. Stamp a PDF with an image and apply transparency, rotation, opacity, color variation or other effects.
• PDF links support. Automatically detect links in a document and include them as clickable links in the resulting PDF file.
• Support for TrueType and OpenType fonts. To ensure portability you can embed fonts in the PDF file.
• Multi-language support

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You've read the series, now get the E-Book! Special EXTRA material not included in the blog series, plus three FREE templates!! Templates included are Time Management Matrix, Goal worksheet, and The Completion Journal. Only $24.99 for the book!


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PDFs tend to be the preferred format of HR managers and others who you have to fill out forms for, leaving you to print, write out, and mail or fax the paper document back to them. Skip all that unnecessary writing and printing with PDFescape, a free web app that lets you fill in PDF forms, add custom text and re-save them to your own computer. The site makes it clear that PDFescape isn’t intended as a full-fledged PDF editor, but it does provide a pretty extensive toolkit for modifying other people’s documents. In addition to text, you can throw in custom images, shapes, and links, and you can store the finished product on your own computer or keep it on PDFescape’s server. Those basic features are free, but it seems as though PDFescape adds a logo mark to any documents you export from the site, which can be removed by purchasing “premium credits.” Either way, it’s significantly less expensive than buying a $300 Adobe suite.

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You've read the series, now get the E-Book! Special EXTRA material not included in the blog series, plus three FREE templates!! Templates included are Time Management Matrix, Goal worksheet, and The Completion Journal. Only $24.99 for the book!


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