PDFSub Is on YouTube
Our new YouTube channel has short walkthroughs of every PDFSub tool, and many of the same videos play right inside the dashboard.
PDFSub is on YouTube now. The channel lives at youtube.com/@PDFSub, and most of the videos already play right inside your dashboard. Here's what's on it and why we built it the way we did.
Show-and-Tell, not "ultimate guides"
You know how it goes with most product tutorials. Five minutes of intro music, a "hi welcome to my channel, smash that like button," and somewhere around minute four you finally see the thing being demonstrated.
We skipped all of that. Every video on the channel is a short Show-and-Tell of one PDFSub tool, in real time, with a real file. Open the tool, click the buttons people actually click, show the output. That's the whole format, with a few helpful tips sprinkled in along the way, the kind of small things that save you time once you know them.
The first batch covers the tools we see the most usage on:
- Merge PDF
- Split PDF
- Compress PDF
- PDF Editor (the text-editing one, not "fill out a form")
- E-Sign
- Bank Statement Converter (this one includes the verifier window and the seven export formats, because that's the part nobody knows is there until they see it)
Every tool will get its own demo video that appears on each tool page, and in the dashboard.
Most of these play right inside the dashboard
This is the part that makes the channel different from "we have a YouTube now, go watch us." When you open the Studio sidebar and hover over a tool that has a recorded walkthrough, a small play button appears next to its name. Click it and the video opens in a modal on the page you're already on. You don't have to leave the tool to figure out how the tool works.
Each tool page works the same way, so you can watch the demo right there on the page before you start.
What's Next
Many more videos are coming, covering document topics that may impact your work. If you'd like to see a particular topic covered on youtube.com/@PDFSub, open a support ticket with your suggestion.
And, you know, go subscribe and smash that like button. Kidding. Watch what's useful, skip the rest.