This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com This is show #47

Doc Metrics Blends Flash and PDFs to Provide Analytics for PDFS.

You can put flash forms into your PDF and get information about how each reader is using your pdf (how long, what they’ve read, if they’ve printed it, and much more). It can be as low as 99 a month. That was the one thing I did NOT like about the service is there is no pricing sheet. You HAVE to sign up to get that information. You can see it at . http://www.docmetrics.com/

Viral PDF Tool

If you have affiliates you may want to look into this tool. It allows you to make brandable ebooks in pdfs.  You put some code into your word document, and later the viral pdf tools replace those tools with the affiliate links. So an affiliate opens the branding tool, point it at the pdf, enter their information into the prompts and “poof” the same ebook now has their affiliate links in the pdf.

This could be very useful if you have an ebook that is a teaser for a product. Your affiliate can promote the book with this free ebook (that contains their links). You can provide the rebranding tool to all your affiliates. It’s only $37 in July 08. Check it out at viralpdf.com

Free PDF Printer Allows You To Control Web Links

http://www.pdfprinter.com/
PDF Printer is a free tool to create PDFs. This free tool allows you to Convert documents—text and/or graphics—to PDF from any of 250 different formats. Create clickable hyperlinks, quickly and easily, to transfer viewers elsewhere.

Make Your Own Comics

One way you can help your viral efforts is to make something funny and outrageous that people want to forward to their friends. Over at http://comiqs.com/ you can add “bubble text” in minutes to pictures and more. It’s free, and its easy to use.

Affordable Scheduling Tool

Today I talk about another scheduling tool that I missed in a previous episode. Its Acuity Scheduling and its a great mix of versatility with ease of use. You can easily customize the look of the scheduling interface, have multi schedules, block time, set your business time, make custom forms for each type of event (very cool) and you can accept payments. There is a free version (you can’t customize, or take payments, but it will let you kick the tires), and the professional version is only 10 bucks. You can find it at acuityscheduling.com

PDF TOOL FOR DREAMWEAVER

SiteScribe creates an Adobe PDF document from any site, local or remote right from within Dreamweaver. Convert your current site to PDF format for client approval or comments on a design in progress. Point SiteScribe to your online sites to create a single file portfolio of one or more published websites, easy to distribute in electronic or hard copy format. With SiteScribe, you set the number of screen shots to appear on each PDF page, the order of the pages, page breaks, title page and much more. SiteScribe gives you full security control with password protection and printing or copying options.

Find it at webassit.com