Batch Picture to PDF Conversion

In the digital world, you can store and show off the photos you took with your own camera in many ways, both online and offline. From the storage facilities offered by numerous online services that enable you to make digital albums that are hosted on their servers to specialized software dedicated to creating arty image collections, there are many choices. If you want to have all your pictures in one place to carry them around and share them with your friends but you don't fancy keeping them in a ZIP archive or in an album that requires some uncommon software to view, there's quite a straightforward alternative. This is offered by the Portable Document Format, commonly referred to as PDF, that helps you store text and images that can viewed and printed right away.

To have your images converted and compiled into a single PDF file, you'll need a dedicated application that can handle the job and the variants you may opt for are not few here. Of course, the freebies are always the most sought after and if you're on the lookout for such a tool, here's a solution: it is called Image to PDF Converter Free and is made especially for this particular task as its very name states.

A clean and easy-to-use interface with clear functions is what you'll get at first glance once you install the software. You can effortlessly change the appearance of this tool by selecting one of the two available skins. There are no dependencies needed for this application to operate, such as virtual printer drivers that are often required for making Portable Document Format files. Basically, this utility can function in a very fast and simplistic manner - load and click Convert - but it offers a bit more than that in order to help you get a personalized PDF photo collection.

The software allows you to load and process several items at once and delivers a decent number of customizations for the resulting file. Thus, you will be able to arrange the pictures in the desired order in the file list and this placement will be reflected in the output positioning of the loaded images. The handling of the photos can be done individually or in groups, whichever suits you best if you need to move the files up or down, add more or remove the surplus. You should note that drag and drop functionality is implemented in case you're not a big fan of numerous clicks.

Image to PDF Converter Free gives you some useful options when it comes to customizing the final Portable Document Format file. You will find them in the Settings module of the application and they refer to both document information and size of the page for the end product. First of all, you can choose a name for the PDF that will encompass all the pictures you singled out. The next fields that can be filled in are those pertaining to the subject that further individualizes the collection, author and producer of the compilation. There is an interesting option offered by this utility, namely the possibility of adding some specific keywords that will make the document easier to find.

There is also a very handy feature of this utility that permits you to define a particular dimension for the page size of the PDF or you can just as well settle for the default values for width and height. Unfortunately, this is the sole characteristic of this kind available, as there are no other similar customizations, like page orientation or image resizing for better results. Things are considerably improved when it comes to the supported image formats. The application can work with six common file types that are bound to please if not all then a large majority of tastes and needs. These are JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF, TGA and GIF. Bear in mind the fact that you will be able to pile up any of them in all possible combination variants, so there is no need to convert any of them to a single format before including them in the document.

Once the pictures are selected and all the parameters defined, all that's left for you to do is press the ''Convert'' button and wait a few seconds, depending on the number of loaded images, to get the final result. The speed with which the utility turns the picture into a PDF file is pretty decent as it is closely related to the size and quality of the input files. Also, the load on the system is acceptable and will certainly not choke the computer as hardware requirements are minimal.

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