How To Create Your Very Own PDF Report In Two Simple Steps

There are many benefits to having your own PDF report and some of those include professionalism, the ability to distribute your report throughout multiple channels on the Internet, and provide links that direct the readers of your report to any website of your choosing, just to name a few.

Making your own PDF (Portable Document Format) report is extremely easy. As long as I have content that readers can absorb I can whip out reports all day long.

If you’ve got content (which is information) then you can make a report on it and then distribute that report as you wish, but we’re not going to talk about the content part here, I’ll save that for another post.

So…

Here are the steps to take for creating your very own PDF report:

1.) You will need OpenOffice or Microsoft Word to publish the content you want to transfer as a report (I prefer Word).

When you use these programs it’s good to keep in mind that what you see is what you get. If you change the font to big bright and pink, the words in your report will be big, bright and pink. You can change this as you like and also add pictures or graphics for extra flare.

2.) Save what you just published onto your computer then go to Doc2PDF.com. Scroll down where you will see “Convert this document”.

Browse your computer for the file you just saved, open it, and then click “Convert Document”. Save that PDF file on your computer and it will open that document in Adobe Reader.

By the way, Adobe Reader is the most common format and comes pre-installed on many computers. To get your report open and read by as many people as possible without many technical difficulties I recommend using them, download it here (free):

–> Download Adobe Reader by clicking here

Congratulations! You just made a PDF report.

That was simple wasn’t it? Now that you have your report there’s two final steps to take. Once you have your report saved as a PDF it’s time to let the world have access to it…

This is how you do it:

At this point you will need your own domain and will need to download FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software (very easy!).

1.) Go to Filezilla-Project.org and download “FileZilla Client” to your computer.

Once you’ve downloaded FileZilla Client you’ll need to enter your Host, Username and Password on the homepage. For example, your Host will be: “ftp.YourDomain.com” and your Username and Password will be whatever it is you choose. Your hosting company will provide you with this.

2.) Once you’re connected look for a file on the right hand side that says “public_html” and double-click it. On the left hand side find your Adobe PDF file and drag it inside the “public_html” folder.

You’re done!

You can do this over and over to crank out PDF reports all day long. If you’ve got the content you can make a report on it.

And as a side note for the last step above you can customize the name however you like.

The last report I made I saved as “howtogetunlimitedleads.pdf” on my computer. I then transferred that to my ftp public_html folder and now the world can access it by going to http://dariomontesdeoca.com/howtogetunlimitedleads.pdf.

Dario Montes de Oca

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