Marketing No Brainers

Have you ever been to the point of tearing your hair out over the (what ought to be) simple task of making a pdf eBook? I don’t mean just any pdf conversion of a Word document. I mean one where you can have clickable links.

Over the last couple of months I’ve tried most of the pdf converters out there. The problem was always getting clickable links in my pdf ebook. The hyperlinks I generated in Word weren’t clickable in the converted pdf document.

Somewhere I read Open Office was the answer, but in the latest “stable” installation I tried the hyperlinks were still dead as a doornail. I did like it though, and if you don’t have Office it is a great free alternative.

I Googled the pdf hyperlink subject with all kinds of qualifiers, and finally stumbled upon pdfMachine. The good news was there was a free version, pdfMachine White, which I could try. So try it I did.

And VOILA! Hyperlinks that worked. Now to be perfectly clear, embedded text hyperlinks were nonfunctional. But those that I’d originally typed out in the Word doc like

http://www.pdfmachine.com/genp/download.shtml

worked just fine. So it was a simple matter to change the text in the Word doc file and make valid standalone URLs of all the hyperlinks I wanted in the text.

pdfMachine installs as a printer driver. You just write or edit your original Word doc file, and then “print” with the installed “Broadgun pdfMachine” printer.

I haven’t tried it, but I think you could have a completely free ebook authoring system using Open Office and the Broadgun pdfMachine White. I already had uninstalled the Open office word processor by the time I found pdfMachine. But I can vouch it works with Word, and can see no reason it wouldn’t work with Open Office.

A note for those that want to try pdfMachine. You’ll need to have Adobe Reader installed. If you’re doing pdfs you’d better have it anyway. You can find all the links for the free programs you need at my web resources page.

So now you have a great free tool to use with all that Private Label content. Check out Doug and Xavier’s PLR giveaway for a bunch of files you can customize to your heart’s content.

You’ll have the keys to making a bunch of pdf ebooks with Your Links in the text. If you use this free version of pdfmachine, just remember the limitation and edit out the embedded hyperlinks and instead just type out the entire url in the Word or Open Office doc you are converting.

And of course I feel compelled to mention that the paid version they offer does allow embedded hyperlink conversion. But hey, maybe you can get along without it, as I did.
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