Speaking of PDF files, have you ever gone impatient with the time it takes for Adobe Reader to open a PDF file? You wait, and wait, and then it loads the file…

Sumatra PDF at the moment is my PDF viewer of choice (for Windows). Files load in just a matter of seconds and the program itself is tiny, just one file actually, nothing to install and take up hundreds of MB from your HD.

Being able to print documents, web pages, anything to PDF format is quite handy to have in any computer. A PDF file is highly portable because it is generally smaller then the original file and works well within any operating system.

PDFCreator is an incredibly good open source tool to install on your Windows machine. It’ll create a new printer that you can use within any program, the output always being PDF files. So you’ll be able to convert any document to PDF easily. You can set your settings to compress images and text the way you want it, encrypt, and protect your PDF documents.