The PDF format today is generally accepted as the industry standard in electronically sending and receiving documents.

In days gone by you had to have the Adode Acrobat software that cost you a mint (and still does). Not any more. These days there’s a deluge of third-party software companies offering a variety of pdf tools.

The basic is the simple PDF converter. Most info publishers write in Word. After they are happy with the end product it’s time to convert the document into a PDf format.

Following are 25 such tools that can get the job done for you - 20 are programs for your desktop and 5 are online conv