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Possible Hidden Data In Your Documents

Sometimes, a document says more about you than the text inside of it.

When you send a job application to a possible new employee, hand in an essay or paper to your professor, or share documents with friends and family on the web, you should be aware what kind of information you are sharing. Of course, you know what you wrote inside the document, but there is hidden information that you are sending alongside.

Check out what kind of information you’re revealing when sharing DOC, ODT or PDF documents with other people. Also, find out how to check documents yourself with the help of Get-Metadata.com.  Continue reading Possible Hidden Data In Your Documents

Convert Images From JPG to PDF [Tutorial]

Images differ greatly from documents – that’s apparent. They both come with their format’s advantages and disadvantages. So what do you do? You use the format that is best suited for your purpose!

For images, that is often displaying them online, using image manipulation, adding them to videos, and the like. Documents, however, are better suited for adding and editing text, and printing.

This article will show you an easy, fast and reliable way to convert from JPG to PDF and thus turn your images into PDF documents.  Continue reading Convert Images From JPG to PDF [Tutorial]

Possible Hidden Data In Your Photos

What does a photo say about you?

Of course, there are the visuals, but there is far more than that that a photo uploaded to social media may say about you! All files, including images, can contain hidden data. Knowing how to read this data can reveal far more than you want.

Thus, today we will have a look at which information can be hidden in your photo and how you can check it using Get-Metadata.com. Continue reading Possible Hidden Data In Your Photos

How To Convert From Word to PDF [Tutorial]

There are many different reasons that speak for converting your editable Microsoft Word documents to PDF. If you want to turn your DOC and DOCX documents into PDF as well, there is an easy and reliable way to do so.

5 Reasons Why To Convert Word To PDF

All you need is your document, an internet connection and a free Word to PDF converter. Read more to find out how to create your own PDF documents.  Continue reading How To Convert From Word to PDF [Tutorial]

Convert From Microsoft PowerPoint to PDF [Tutorial]

If you have the Microsoft Office suite installed, you get a whole set of useful programs for office, school, and private work. One of them is the widely known presentation program Microsoft PowerPoint.

In PowerPoint, you can easily create appealing presentations and slides, using transitions and other effects, formatting, insert images and even small videos and sound effects.

These presentations have one disadvantage though: they are hardly responsive. That means that depending on the program you use to show them and the screen resolution of the device or projector, the formatting can easily get skewed or even lost. But luckily, you can easily convert from PowerPoint to PDF – online and for free.  Continue reading Convert From Microsoft PowerPoint to PDF [Tutorial]

Convert From PDF To PowerPoint [Tutorial]

PDF is a great format for presentations. The slides will look exactly the same on any computer or screen. That’s nifty, but it comes with a price.

PDF documents do not offer animation or transition effects between slides. For this, presentation files are just perfect as they were specifically invented for this. Without a doubt, the most famous ones are Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

In the following tutorial, we will have a look at how you can convert your PDF files to PowerPoint in only a few steps. All you need is this PDF to PPT converter (online & free).  Continue reading Convert From PDF To PowerPoint [Tutorial]

How To Repair A Broken PDF [Tutorial]

There is one document format that is just too perfect to be true: PDF. It retains formatting, can be password-protected, is printer-optimized, and so much more. Unfortunately, it can happen that a PDF document becomes corrupted while downloading, sending or saving.

For such cases, PDF2Go came up with a way to repair broken PDF files. This how-to will show you the quick and easy steps to save your PDF files.  Continue reading How To Repair A Broken PDF [Tutorial]

How To Remove PDF Password Protection [Tutorial]

PDF is the perfect format to share documents, scans and more online. Due to the retained formatting, they can be transferred between systems and still look exactly like they are supposed to. In order to keep the information in your document safe, you can protect them with a password.

What if you need information from a password-protected PDF though? If you know it, you can actually remove the password!

This tutorial will explain how you can unlock any PDF file as long as you know the password. Continue reading How To Remove PDF Password Protection [Tutorial]

How To Find Hidden Metadata [Tutorial]

In our last article, we have talked about the importance of checking your images, videos and other files for hidden data. Always make sure that you know what your file says about you when you share or send it somewhere!

But how can you do that? Today, we will answer this question. It doesn’t take much and all you need is your file, an internet connection, and:

Get-Metadata.com  Continue reading How To Find Hidden Metadata [Tutorial]

How To Convert E-Books To PDF [Tutorial]

PDF is a format that every modern e-book reader can easily process, open and display. E-book formats, on the other hand, may not be supported across different devices.

For example, the Amazon Kindle does not the very popular and wide-spread EPUB format. Likewise, if you have a Nook from Barnes & Noble, you can not open AZW or AZW3 e-books on it.

Converting these e-books to PDF can get rid of these problems. And we can tell you how to do so completely for free.  Continue reading How To Convert E-Books To PDF [Tutorial]