If you want to share various documents with students, you have to be concerned whether or not the students will have the application and the correct version of the software that you used to create the document. This is especially important when sharing SMARTBoard notes or tablet inkings on Moodle or with others via email.

Enter Personal Document Format (pdf). From web sites, we have been downloading pdfs which we can then either read on screen or print out and it will retain the characteristics of the original. Most modern web browsers include a plug in from Adobe, Acrobat Reader. But to create a pdf required paying for Acrobat, which was cost prohibitive.

CuteFTP Writer is freeware which enables a user to “print” a pdf document. Downloading and installing both CutePDF Writer and the converter will provide users with the ability to go to their print menu, change from a printer to CutePDF, and create a file that all users can open and print.  This is a neat utility.