Tools to tile images and create PDFs

Here are a couple of really handy web-based tools that I discovered recently and now use regularly at work:

• PrimoPDF Free Online PDF Creator

Upload a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document and this tool will convert it into a PDF and email it back to you. It's free - you don't even have to sign up. Much easier than firing up Acrobat.

• Block Posters

This tool is designed to help you "create any size wall posters from any size images", but I use it to print off screengrabs of websites when they won't fit on to one sheet of paper. Basically, Block Posters 'slices' your image up into page-sized tiles and then turns these into a PDF for you to download and print. My only criticism is that it doesn't accept .PNG files.

Editorial tools: not entirely free from typos

In my job, I use a whole range of editorial tools. And those tools contain a whole range of spelling and grammar mistakes.

I appreciate that developers aren't sub editors, so all I can do is smile. Here are screengrabs of a couple of my favourites (the latter, I must point out, is now fixed):