{"id":4872,"date":"2012-08-01T15:53:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T22:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2012-07-31T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T22:59:38","slug":"best-bytes-pdf-converters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/?p=4872","title":{"rendered":"Best Bytes &#8211; PDF Converters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Picture2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3675\" title=\"Best Bytes logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Picture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><em>Contributed by Andrea Harrow, MLS, Medical Librarian\/CME &amp; IRB Coordinator, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many of you savvy librarians are probably already using a PDF converter. \u00a0Just in case you are not, I wanted to share this recommendation with you. \u00a0Rather than cutting and pasting information into a Word doc, I convert text into a PDF. \u00a0This is best achieved when there is an option to print as the formatting has been optimized.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous free programs out there if you search on \u201cconverting to PDF\u201d. \u00a0I had my IS Dept download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutepdf.com\/\">cutePDF.com<\/a> on all the library computers.\u00a0 You can also get converter programs to convert PDFs to Word. \u00a0Now when the content my subscribed database delivers has full-text but does not supply a PDF, I can click the print option and save it as a PDF myself.<\/p>\n<p>My other favorite use for this tool is when saving Pubmed search results to send to a patron. \u00a0Everyone has their preferred method of sending Pubmed search results. \u00a0Since I get most of my search requests by email, I like to reply to those and attach what I can find including a list of Pubmed search results. \u00a0Cutting and pasting from Pubmed into a Word doc can make for an unevenly formatted mess.\u00a0 I get the best formatting results by using the Pubmed Display Settings and selecting Abstract(text).\u00a0 I then save as a PDF in the print options. \u00a0And, because you are sending a PDF, your patron will most likely be able to open it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributed by Andrea Harrow, MLS, Medical Librarian\/CME &amp; IRB Coordinator, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles Many of you savvy librarians are probably already using a PDF converter. \u00a0Just in case you are not, I wanted to share this recommendation with you. \u00a0Rather than cutting and pasting information into a Word doc, I convert text into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mlgsca.mlanet.org\/newsletter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}