View PDF files directly in your browser

I have taught you (hehe) how to create a PDF file using a free Office-like application named Open Office. Now I will tell you how to read one directly in your browser.

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Google Docs x 5 = OpenOffice

InfoWorld tell us that while Microsoft Office remains dominant, an independent study finds OpenOffice.org was used by 5 percent of people, versus Google Docs’ 1 percent.

Google Docs, Open Office

What’s with this 2 applications? OpenOffice, already at 3.0.0 version, is a downloadable Microsoft Office-like software. Google Docs is a free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online.

OpenOffice may looks like difficult to handle or to manage because you need to download and install it but what do you say! You are going to do that only one time…

And guess what! There is more! You may export PDF files too ;-).

* You don’t trust so much the online privacy, isn’t it? You want to keep your documents in a safe place, isn’t it? Ok, ok! I’m not showing you more about Google Docs! :-)

Creating a PDF file has never been so easy!

Some of you may now it but let me assure you that there are a lot more out there that need a simple solution to create a PDF file!

Open Office 3.0.0

Why creating a PDF file?

As far as I personally know and use it, PDF format is the most common format for a company internal documents because:
- it cannot be changed
- you can forget about all the formatting issues during printing a document.

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