Have you ever sent an attachment to someone and realized they don’t have the necessary program to open it? I’m guilty. Part of my job as a troubleshooter is to help staff open documents that are in unique formats. Most of the time my Macintosh helps out XP users (no this is not a platform bashing entry) but there are time s that I I can’t seem to opn it. Lately I’ve been using Zamzar but so are many others and the service has slowed down to a crawl. Tonight I realized that Scribd’s ipaper can help out.
From their blog…
Simply add ipaper@scribd.com to the cc: field of your email along with one or more attachments, and send it off. Scribd will automatically convert your document attachments to iPaper, and then forward you and your email’s recipients a link to the document on Scribd. Your iPaper attachment will be marked private, so only you and your recipients will be able to view it.
Here is a video to help show off the feature.
I envision using this when someone sends me let’s say a Word 2007 file. I would simply email myself and use the ipaper cc to convert it. This could come in handy with assignments done in M$Works or WordPerfect (yes some people still use these programs).
Last night Jott made my life easier and tonight Scribd has become a lifeline. What will tomorrow bring? I can’t wait to find out.
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Hi Mike-
That is a great tip. I’ll share it in my next post.
-Skip
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