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If you want to look professional while handing out your contact information to new people you might meet in your everyday business or personal life, business cards are a must.

Being able to give someone your business card instead of asking them to write down or memorize your email address or phone number could make all the difference when trying to build new business contacts.

If you are looking for an easy-to-use and absolutely free program for making your own professional looking business cards look no further than CardWorks.

The program lets you pick a design and then simple enter your information in to get a fantastic business card made for you instantly. Once the design is finished, simply export your new business card as a PDF and it will be ready for the printing press.

The interface for CardWorks is incredibly intuitive. Here’s how to use it.

You can pick the design for your business card from the menu at the top.

Once you have chosen the card design that you want, type in the information that you want on the card on the left side of the interface. This is where you put in your name, the name of your company, your contact phone number, email and whatever else you want to put on your business card.

You can also input your company logo or a picture of yourself onto the card through this left hand side menu.

Once you have picked your design and entered your information, you can play with the color schemes as well to further personalize your business card.

When you have completed the process and are happy with what your business card looks like, click on Export and export the file as a PDF.

In the export process, you can select the size of the paper and the number of cards you want to print per page (the size of the cards), and any other details you want to prepare before printing.

PDF is a very popular and widely used document format. However, one of the file format’s biggest downsides is the difficulty it poses in the editing of documents.

For example, if you want to delete a page from your PDF file or change the order of the pages, one of the ways to do this is to convert the PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint or other formats with Cometdocs, make the necessary changes, and then convert the documents back to PDF – which can all also be done with Cometdocs.

But we are going to show you a faster way with a neat open source software for managing PDF documents, PDFSam.

Among the many options it offers, with PDFSam users can split a PDF into smaller parts, change the order and position of pages in a document, merge multiple PDFs into one and much more.

Here is how you can perform some of these tasks:

Separating one PDF into multiple pages

Upon installation, choose the Split tab, add the PDF with the Add option into the interface, and then choose the appropriate option. As you can see, it is possible to extract single pages from one PDF, odd or even pages only, and much more.

Now click on Run to start the procedure, which takes no time at all. Be careful not to choose to save the files in the “Same as source”  destination folder if you do not want the original file to be replaced and lost.

Rearranging pages

To rearrange the order of the PDF pages, choose Visual reorder. After uploading the file, all the pages will be presented in the form of thumbnails. You can now select the pages and move, rotate or delete them one by one. Everything is pretty intuitive visually.

All in all, PDFSam packs a lot of power for a free tool and can help you manage your PDF files in many ways. We have shown you a couple of nice features, but be sure to check the software out if you want to see what else it can do.

There are various reasons why you might want to convert PDFs to image formats. It can be useful when you want to send someone only a couple of pages from a PDF without giving them the option of changing or editing the text. Or perhaps you simply want to extract images from a PDF and share them around the web.

There are a couple of ways we can do this and it all depends on our needs.

For example, if you want to convert only one PDF page or part of it into an image format, you can use the snapshot option of whatever PDF reader you are using. Here is where that option is found within Adobe’s PDF Reader.

However, doing this for a large number of pages can be a very time consuming. But with Cometdocs, you can do it very easily.

Converting PDF files to image formats like JPG, PNG, TIFF and others is done very easily with Cometdocs. Just upload the PDF to your Cometdocs Clipboard and then drag it to the Convert tab. It can be any type of PDF, either scanned or regular.

Under the conversion options, choose the image format you want to create. As you can see, among the offered formats, you will find all of the most popular image formats like JPG, TIFF, BMP, PNG and GIF.

Now go to the Store tab, where you will find a zipped archive containing all of the images created from the PDF. You will see here every page individually created as an image format file.

You can now download the zipped archive, store it, or transfer and send it to somebody else.

Naturally, if the PDF is large, the conversion might take a couple of minutes. Believe it or not, this option is offered to both free and premium users.

You will notice that both the original PDF and the new image files will be saved in the archive. You can delete the original PDF by selecting the bundle, clicking Delete and leaving only the zipped images in the archive.