PDF is green tech for your office
Monday, 22 June 2009
The basic tool required to bridge the gap between the carbon-intensive paper document present and the greener electronic document future was invented in 1993 as a way to streamline communications between publishers and printers.
Today, the humble PDF file is the file format of choice for “final” electronic documents. Properly created and deployed, PDF alone serves a critical need in reducing both business costs and environmental impacts.
Duff Johnson of Planet PDF wrote an article about two of my favorite topics: PDF Documents and Paperless Offices.
In the article, he discusses several key motivating factors for fitting PDF into your own workflow, with the underlying goal of making your office a little bit greener.
Read it all here: PDF is green tech for your office
No. 1 — June 24th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Pretty cool post. I just came across your blog and wanted to say
that I’ve really liked reading your posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again soon!
No. 2 — June 24th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Thanks for the kind word!
No. 3 — June 24th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Being a “paperless” business isn’t easy, but there are certainly some steps that we can take to get there. Check out Office Live Workspace from Microsoft for a great cloud computing solution. Great for the collaborative process that happens before creating that final PDF! It offers users the ability to create, save, access, and share documents and files online for free (You get 5GB of free storage!). There is even a plug-in for MS Office that lets you save your files to your online Workspace directly from whichever Office program you are using. Not only can saving things in the cloud help the bottom line, but you’re helping out the environment at the same time.
Cheers,
Kate
MSFT Office Live Outreach Team
http://www.workspace.officelive.com
http://www.facebook.com/office_live