Tips & Tricks

Smart tips to get more done with your PDFs.

How to Integrate Online PDF Tools With Cloud Storage Services
The typical PDF workflow involves a download step that serves no purpose other than moving a file from one place to another.
How to Verify PDF Quality After Online Processing
Running a PDF through an online compression, conversion, or editing tool takes seconds.
How to Quick-Edit a PDF Without Launching Heavy Software
A typo in a PDF contract. A date that needs updating on a form. An image that should be swapped before a presentation goes out.
How to Process PDFs on a Device With Limited Storage
A Chromebook with 32GB of storage. An older laptop with a nearly full hard drive. A tablet with no expandable memory.
How to Choose an Online PDF Tool for Business
Choosing an online PDF tool for your business is not the same as picking one for occasional personal use.
How to Build a PDF Workflow Using Online Tools
Most people process PDFs reactively. An email arrives with an attachment that needs signing. A report needs compressing before upload.
How to Process PDFs Without Downloading Software
Downloading and installing desktop software for every PDF task has become unnecessary.
How to Compress a PDF on Android
Compressing a PDF on Android is easy once you know which route to take. Android's flexibility means you have more options than on iOS — between...
How to Compress a PDF on Windows
Compressing a PDF on Windows is something most people need to do regularly — whether for email attachments, file size limits on upload portals, or...
How to Add a Link to a PDF
Adding a clickable link to a PDF is useful for digital documents that will be read on screen — reports with source citations, proposals referencing...
How to Add an Image to a PDF
Adding an image to a PDF is useful when you need to insert a logo, stamp, photo, signature image, or any other visual element onto a page.
How to Add a Text Box to a PDF
Adding a text box to a PDF lets you insert new text anywhere on a page without altering the original content — useful for filling in forms that...
How to Add Comments to a PDF
Adding comments to a PDF lets you annotate documents for review, leave feedback for colleagues, or note questions while reading — without altering...
How to Highlight Text in a PDF
Highlighting text in a PDF is one of the most basic annotation tasks, and nearly every PDF viewer supports it in some form.
How to Redact a PDF
How to redact a PDF is one of those things that seems straightforward until you realize that simply covering text with a black box — the way many...
How to Password Protect a PDF on Windows
Adding a password to a PDF on Windows is straightforward whether you use Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, or a browser-based tool.
How to Split a PDF Into Multiple Files
Splitting a PDF into multiple separate files is useful when you need to share specific sections without sending the entire document, extract chapters...
How to Convert a JPEG to PDF
Converting a JPEG image to PDF is one of the simplest document tasks there is — and it's useful more often than you might think.
How to OCR a PDF on Mac
Running OCR on a PDF on Mac is straightforward — Preview handles basic cases natively, and a couple of dedicated tools cover everything else...
How to Convert PDF to PNG
Converting a PDF to PNG is one of the cleaner image exports you can make from a PDF — PNG's lossless compression keeps text crisp and graphics sharp,...