Back in July of this year I introduced Iceream Apps to our Free Webmaster Resources Directory – listing their 3 initial applications: Media Converter, PDF Split & Merge, and the Icecream Image Resizer. As of this weekend Icecream Apps has launched another freeware application called PDF Converter, a great tool for converting a range of file formats to and from PDF.
While there are plenty of similar applications around, what’s interesting here is most conversions are handled in the background by a bundled copy of Open Office. Although this bloats the installation size to a whopping 250MB, it brings immediate benefits in file format support, with Icecream PDF Converter converting Office documents (DOC/ DOCX, XLS/XLSX, ODT, ODS), images (JPG, PNG, BMP), ebooks (EPUB, MOBI, FB2) and HTML pages to PDF format.
Conversions from PDF are more basic, with the program extracting all or selected pages to JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, EPS or WMF.
Fortunately you don’t get to see Open Office for any of this, with Icecream PDF Converter being controlled from a simple straightforward interface. Choose your conversion type (to or from PDF), set a few conversion options (page ranges to convert, optionally merge input files into a single PDF), select the Output folder and you’re done.
As with all the other Icecream Apps applications you can find them within the Rapid Purple Webmasters Resource Directory or visit the Icecream Apps website.