{"id":631,"date":"2006-01-18T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:47","slug":"electronic_document_conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/01\/18\/electronic_document_conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Document Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>The United States National Library of Medicine has an excellent service called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?182\">DocMorph<\/a> where you can convert 50+ different document formats to PDF. You have to register (which is free), and then you find a file on your computer, and it converts it. It does a good job of optimizing the output.<\/p>\n<p>I tried it with a simple Word document (logo in header and text in body). The original document was 62kb, and the converted PDF was 29kb. I tried it with a 136kb GIF, and the converted PDF was 165kb. Lastly, I tried it on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?183\">PCIN Registry Tips<\/a> document. The Word document was 330kb, and the converted PDF was 257kb. I had used Acrobat to create a PDF already, but it was over 400kb, so I&#8217;ve since replaced it with the smaller one.<\/p>\n<p>There is also software called MyMorph which you can download. I did not try this as I was only testing the web-based options.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely worth checking out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States National Library of Medicine has an excellent service called DocMorph where you can convert 50+ different document formats to PDF. You have to register (which is free), and then you find a file on your computer, and it converts it. It does a good job of optimizing the output. I tried it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommended-web-sites","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}