Definition of Spinning a PDF File

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to talk to you about the definition of spinning a PDF file. Now basically when you talk about spinning a PDF, you're talking about taking a regular document of some type that you have on your computer and converting it into a PDF document that will open with Adobe's PDF reader. I'm actually going to show you how to do this for free right now. So let's go to our computer and what we're going to use to create this PDF is a program called OpenOffice which I don't if you've ever used the Microsoft Office suite, but OpenOffice is very similar and it's free for download at OpenOffice.org. It includes a word document type thing and a spreadsheet editor and as you can see, it looks a whole lot like most of the word processing interfaces you've gotten used to. So I'm going to type in some information here, so this is my PDF file created by OpenOffice. Now from here I'm going to click on the file menu and I'm going to click on export as PDF. It's going to ask me some information about the quality of the PDF I'd like to create. I'm just going to go with the defaults and all you have to do is at the very bottom of this window, click on the export button. It's going to ask what you'd like to save your PDF as. I'm going to put it on my desktop and I'm going to call this My PDF. I'm going to click save. That has just created our PDF document and if I will minimize this, you'll see that there is My PDF.pdf, I'm just going to open that up and there is my PDF file that was created by OpenOffice. It's that easy to spin your own PDFs using absolutely free software. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just talked to you a little bit about spinning a PDF."