Convert PDF Documents to SWF Flash Movies Online with PDFMeNot

Like Scibd and SlideShare, PDFMeNot is an online PDF to Flash converter that will instantly convert any Adobe PDF document into a Macromedia Flash (SWF) movie while preserving the original layout, image graphics and formatting.
The PDF to SWF converter can very useful when you have to embed PDF files in web pages for inline viewing or you want to read PDF files on a computer that has no Acrobat Reader.

Here's how to create Flash movies from PDF documents:
1. Go to PDFMeNot.com (Username: stateless Password: systems) and type the URL of the PDF file - you can use this PDF link as an example. Alternatively upload a PDF from the local hard drive.
2. In your Firefox menu bar, click Tools -> Page Info -> Media. Select the object that has an SWF extension (e.g. pdfmenot.com/store/f6a29535da98cd1.swf)  and save it to your disk. That's the SWF file created from your PDF document. For IE, here's the trick to save Flash locally.
Bloggers can embed the following JS code in their web templates and PDF links will open in Flash SWF format via PDFMeNot.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pdfmenot.com/convert.js"></script>

While PDFMeNot is an extremely convenient option for quickly viewing PDF files in the browser without loading Adobe Reader, the downside is that the generated SWF objects contains Zoom but no Print and Search function. They are all supported in Macromedia Flash Paper format used by Scribd. Thanks Marshall.

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A Flash PDF Viewer for Reading PDF Files without Acrobat

Adobe PDF is one of the most popular formats for exchanging documents on the web. PDF files look the same on every computer, are print ready and cannot be tampered with – that’s the reason why most Instruction manuals, ebooks, invoices, etc are distributed as PDFs.

To view PDF files on your computer, you need Adobe Reader software that’s absolutely free and is available for almost all platforms including Windows, Mac and Linux.
But there’s a small problem – the PDF file must be on your local hard drive for Adobe Reader to open it. You cannot open an online PDF file inside Adobe Reader without downloading it locally.
Convert PDF Files to SWF Flash Movies
There’s however a very elegant solution to this problem called PDFMeNot– an online service that lets you read PDF files inside the browser without Adobe Reader.
With PDFMeNot, you can view any online PDF file in the browser without having to download that file locally.  The service is also handy if you don’t have Adobe Reader on the computer – just upload your PDF to PDFMeNot and read it in the browser.

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Email Based File Conversion – Supports PDF, DOC, DOCX, MP3, etc.

Here are five new additions to the list of Most Useful Email Addresses that help you instantly convert popular file formats like Office docs, PDF and music files via email attachments.
To use any of these email based file conversion services, just send your files (like DOCX, PDF, MP3, etc) as email attachments to the address of the conversion service and they'll send back files in converted formats almost instantly.

1. mp3@koolwire.com - Convert WAV to MP3 format (file limit: 10 MB)
2. iPhone@pdfonline.com - Convert Microsoft Visio (VSD) and Word 2007 (DOCX) to PDF. You can send multiple file formats in the same email and the converted PDF documents will arrive in separate emails. Don't get confused by the iphone word in the email address, it works just fine for the desktop and other wireless devices.
3. pdf@koolwire.com - Convert DOC, XLS or PPT files to PDF
4. doc@koolwire.com - Convert PDF to Word or RTF
5. wav@koolwire.com - Convert MP3 Songs to WAV files
The PDFOnline service support all Microsoft Office formats including the latest DOCX format but the file has to be less than 1 MB. You can use the Koolwire email conversion service to convert files as large as 10 MB.
These services are especially handy if your mobile phone doesn't offer file viewer for particular formats  - like a BlackBerry cannot read Visio or Docx formats.

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Upload SWF Flash Movies to YouTube Video

Silke of Adobe Captivate shows how to publish Adobe Captivate screencast movies to YouTube. Captivate produces videos in SWF or FLV video format both of which are not supported by YouTube.
YouTube however supports uploading WMV, AVI, MOV, and MPG file formats as well as MPEG4. Using the Sothink SWF to Video converter utility, you can convert your SWF files into an AVI movie and upload it to YouTube.
You can extend same technique to watch screencast movies on your iPod or iPhone - convert swf to mp4 or avi and transfer the video to your portable player.

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Create .docx Documents Online without Microsoft Word 2007

Question: You want to write some Word documents in the new docx format but there's no Office 2007 on your computer.

Solution: This problem can be easily solved using Buzzword, the online word processor from Adobe.
Either create a new document from scratch or upload an existing Word 2003 file and Buzzword will convert that to docx which is the default file format of Word 2007.
Like Zoho Writer or Google Docs, Buzzword can also export Word docs to HTML format.

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Create MP3 Files From Text in Emails and Web Pages

Vozme is web based tool that turns any snippet of text into an MP3 audio file that you can either listen online or download to your local hard drive.
You just have to copy the text from a web page or an email and paste it inside the Vozme text box.

While there are tons of solutions that convert text to spoken words, what I liked about Vozme is the clutter free interface and the fact that it runs inside the browser without requiring any downloads.
Bloggers can easily integrate the Vozme feature in the site so visitors can either listen to your full blog posts or they can select a portion of text and have Vozme narrate it like a speech.
Vozme.com - Accepts Spanish, English and Italian languages.

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Save Web Pages As An Image with Kwout

Kwout is like a Print Screen key for your web browser. This useful service lets you capture screenshots of web pages without requiring any software or browser plug-ins.
Type in the web page address and Kwuot will convert the entire web page as an image - simply select a portion with your mouse that you wish to save as an image and click "Cut Out".

Later, you can enhance the screen captures of HTML web pages by adding borders, shadows and rounded corner - all this without leaving Kwout.
You can either download the image of that web page locally or let it stay on the Kwout website - the big advantage here is that all the hyperlinks inside the screenshot will remain live and active.
http://kwout.com/ - saves in JPG format.

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