I like reading ebooks. They make me feel powerful over tons of bound pages yet lightweight. What more with being able to convert djvu of well searched references?

You see, it’s a big deal for me to keep softcopy of books in case I’d need them. It’s like a virtual library inside my bag. And this tutorial will share a glimpse on how to convert the aforementioned format to *.pdf without giving up a cent.

First, you have to have Irfanview and PDFCreator installed in your system. Then download plugins that you need from Irfanview (you can actually get an entire collection of library files but it’s up to you).

Second, open source file, in this case I used grammaire.djvu

Third, by selecting Print in File Menu, choose PDFCreator as printer. You can manipulate the settings like page size but be sure that images are still in print range. Click Print button.

Fourth, PDFCreator will initialize and time it will consume depends on how many pages needs to be handled. Then you’ll see this:

Fifth, click on Save button choose your desired directory. That’s it! Really easy. You can do it to other files you want to convert as long as they are supported by Irfanview and you can get the proper dll file for it.

As promised, here’s another batch of OpenSource applications that you may want to try.

I have been introduced to Irfanview, a freeware graphic viewer. I used it for viewing raw images I took during one of my photo sessions with my friends in La Mesa Eco Park. And to my satisfaction, the results were quite near to my expectation. But I was so glad to know that I could use Irfanview to open djvu files (djvu is a compressed file format developed by AT&T).

Why did I need one? It’s because I was desperately searching for good french books and I only stumbled upon djvu books, instead of pdf.

The adventure didn’t end there. I wished I could convert these djvu files to pdf so it wouldn’t be such a pain reading every page. For this, I recommend the PDFCreator.

PDFCreator version 0.9.6, by what its name implies, is a free tool to create pdf files (now where does Adobe Distiller stand? hehe). These two tools come in handy and with my experience as an ebook searcher, they are definitely useful.

PS: Next time, I’ll post the how-to.