Convert to pdf via e-mail
I am going to start an email business. I will make PDF file from all other documents with No Loss Of Format. As a customer will send me his document as email attachment, I will reply him with the converted PDF file attached. Please tell me about the market demand of this business. How I can get payment most easily and quickly? How much I can charge for it? I have a pay pal premier account
February 5th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Unfortunately I don’t believe that there is much of a market for this service. There are plenty of software products out there that do this relatively inexpensively.
For the heavy duty user there is PDF Writer which is software written by Adobe. These are the same people who distribute the free PDF Reader. The writer costs several hundred dollars but allows you to edit the PDF files.
The program that we use at work is one called PDF 995. It only costs $10. It is very simple to use. If you can print the document you can convert it to a PDF. When you install the software it creates a printer on your system named PDF995. Then when you are running an application like Word, Excel, or virtually any other application, you would print the document to the PDF995 printer. When you do so you are prompted for a file name and the file is saved as a PDF file. It’s that easy.
Also, the new MS Office 2007 is supposed to have the capability to save their documents in PDF format though I haven’t tried doing that yet.
There are also programs that will do just the opposite. In other words, if you have a PDF file the software will convert it to a Word or Excel file. Solid Software is one of the better ones and sells for under a hundred dollars.
Hope this helps,
Captain Computer