| -MS Word (DOC) | -MS Publisher (PUB) | JPG, PNG |
-MS Word (RTF) | -MS Excel (XLS) | BMP, TIFF |
| -MS PowerPoint (PPT) | -HTML (MHT) | WMF, EMF |
| -MS PowerPoint (PPS) | -Text (TXT) | GIF |
This service comes in very handy if someone sends you, for example, a MS Publisher (PUB) file but you don't have that program. By using PDF Online can convert the .pub file to a .pdf file and view it.
The company that makes this service available BCL Technologies has a lot of other interesting sounding applications and has worked with a lot of well known companies to develop software to fit their needs. I thought the program to convert a .pdf file to a Microsoft Word document sounded useful in some instances.
If you do buy a copy of one of the versions of Adobe Acrobat try to get it via a group license e.g. from your college bookstore or a group license agreement through your place of employment. The individual user prices for Adobe products are pretty steep for most non-business casual users.
Another free alternative for creating pdf files would be to try OpenOffice, which, according to some people, is becoming a credible contender in the office software suite arena.
