Tips & Tricks

Smart tips to get more done with your PDFs.

How to Crop a PDF Page
Cropping a PDF page lets you remove unwanted margins, white borders, or content at the edges of a page.
How to Unlock a PDF for Editing
Unlocking a PDF for editing is one of the most common PDF-related questions — and the answer depends on what kind of lock is actually in place.
How to Print a PDF as a Booklet
Printing a PDF as a booklet — where pages are arranged so they fold together into a book-like format — is useful for manuals, brochures, event...
How to Remove a Watermark From a PDF
Removing a watermark from a PDF is sometimes necessary when you're working with a draft document that's been superseded, a template with a demo...
How to Extract Text From a PDF
Extracting text from a PDF is straightforward when the PDF has a proper text layer — you can simply select and copy.
How to Convert a Word Document to PDF on iPhone
Converting a Word document to PDF on iPhone is something the Microsoft Word app and a few other tools handle directly — no computer required.
How to Merge PDF Files on iPhone
Merging PDFs on iPhone is something most people don't realize their phone can do natively — and for those cases where it can't, a browser tool...
How to Add a Signature Line to a PDF
Adding a signature line to a PDF gives recipients a clearly designated place to sign, which speeds up the signing process and reduces the...
How to Convert Excel to PDF
Converting Excel files to PDF is something most people do regularly — to share a spreadsheet without allowing edits, to create a printable report, or...
How to Combine JPG Files Into One PDF
Combining multiple JPG images into a single PDF is one of the most common image-to-document tasks — whether you're assembling scanned pages,...
How to Convert an Email to PDF
Saving an email as a PDF is useful for record-keeping, sharing email threads with people who weren't on the original thread, or filing correspondence...
How to Convert PDF to JPG on Mac
Mac makes PDF-to-JPG conversion easy through the built-in Preview app, and an online tool fills the gap when you need more control over resolution or...
How to Flatten a PDF
Flattening a PDF collapses all its layers, annotations, and form fields into a single, non-editable layer.
How to Make a PDF Searchable
A searchable PDF lets you find words with Ctrl+F, select and copy text, and have the file indexed by search engines or document management systems.
How to Sign a PDF on Android
Signing a PDF on Android is easy with either a dedicated app or a browser-based tool — and unlike iOS, Android gives you more flexibility in how you...
How to Convert a Word Document to PDF on Mac
Mac makes converting a Word document to PDF straightforward — you can do it directly from Word, from Pages, or from the print dialog without any...
How to Add a Watermark to a PDF
Adding a watermark to a PDF is a common way to mark documents as drafts, confidential, or proprietary — and to discourage unauthorized distribution.
How to Scan a Document to PDF on Android
Scanning a document to PDF on Android is built into several apps that most users already have installed.
How to Convert PDF to JPG on Windows
Converting a PDF to JPG on Windows is useful when you need to share individual pages as images, embed a PDF page into another document, or use a page...
How to Convert a PDF to a PowerPoint
Converting a PDF to PowerPoint lets you turn a fixed document back into an editable presentation — useful when you've received a deck as PDF and need...