Don't Print it, 'PDF' it!

UPDATE! Since the experience I had today with the Awful Ask Toolbar, I suggest using Nitro Reader.

I used to print lots of stuff. I printed web sites with how to do stuff, because it might come in handy later. It probably would have come in handy, if I had been able to find that printed page when I needed it.

I had piles and piles of printed stuff.  I went through so much paper and so much ink!

Then I got smart and started printing all this stuff to PDF files and saved them all in my digital file cabinet. No more trying to find something I printed a month ago in that ever growing stack of printed stuff.  No more buying lots of paper and especially that expensive printer ink.

I used Cute PDF Writer.

Installing Cute PDF Writer has some ‘gotchas’ though.  Just like all of the other used to be free of sneaky installs, Cute PDF Writer also has some ‘extras’ if you aren’t careful during the install.

Those gotchas were worse than I thought. Read here!

The download page can be a bit confusing, but just click the free download link and start the process. Be sure to note where you are saving the file. (I like to save the file instead of running them, in order have them in case I need to reinstall something later.)

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Once you have the file, click it to install it and watch carefully during the install.First come the infamous Ask toolbar. You DON’T want it, so  un-check those already checked boxes.



Then the installer wants you to install ‘Hotspot Shield’. Whatever that is, I don’t think you want that either, so click the ‘Decline’ button.



Then Cute PDF Writer will install and once more try to get you to get the Ask toolbar, just decline it.

It’s worth the hassle.  While I despise the way shareware sometimes (usually) wants to push unwanted junk on to users, I know why they do it. They need the $$ and this is one way to get paid for their wares.  You just have to be careful during the install.

Now that you have a new ‘printer’ to print to PDF, why not get a great PDF Reader to read all of those files?  I like PDF-XChange Viewer.

The download link is right there on the first page.



So save some trees, not to mention some dollars and print to PDF using Nitro Reader!