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Exporting files for use in projects
Saving a document or image file as a PDF will allow it to be viewed by all users on the internet, regardless of the software they have installed. This also allows you to present your work publicly without allowing it to be edited by others. For images, regardless of their actual format, it is possible to export them as JPG, PNG, TIFF, or PDF. It is recommended to export images as either PNG or JPEG for them to be immediately visible in your PebblePad projects. For word documents, it is recommended to have them exported as PDF.
It should be noted that PDFs can’t be uploaded on Portfolio pages; they can only be used for collections, blogs, and logs (not Portfolios or Pages). To upload PDFs in blogs etc., there is a button at the bottom of the page to “Add to your blog”. Pressing it will prompt you to upload a files, such as PDFs.
When others open a PDF in your project, the document will open in a new tab for them without interfering with their location in your project.
However, there are two ways to convert files to PDF: “saving” them as PDF, or “printing” them as PDF.
Saving as PDF
Saving a file as a PDF keeps all the functionality present in the word document.
For example, links embedded in the word document can still be used in a PDF. These links may include online websites or act as a table of contents in a document. As a result, any table of contents created in a word document will be retained when saving as PDF. Additionally, any document backgrounds will also be preserved in the PDF version.
For Windows
To save something as a PDF, open the desired document. Go to File > Save As. When choosing the location of the document on the computer, in the options below you can select the format to save the image in. Open the dropdown and select PDF (you can also select JPEG or PNG if it’s an image file).
For Mac
Go to File > Export To > PDF. Select the Image Quality (making it higher might cause it to load slower for some users when viewing it) and save it in the desired location.
Printing as PDF
Printing a file as PDF converts the document to the format of a printed page. This means that links will no longer work (as they don't on a physical printed page), and any table of contents and document backgrounds will not be kept.
The following are the steps for exporting a word document as a PDF for both Windows and Mac.
the process for exporting images as JPEG etc. is identical.
