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Comments on: Print-to-PDF battle: Primo versus Do

Creating your own PDFs used to require purchasing a PDF-creator, but with PrimoPDF and doPDF, all that's required is a program with a print function. Is one of these freeware apps better than the other?

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by Chocobito March 10, 2008 8:49 PM PDT: I prefere MagicPDF its tiny, fast , free and produce very optimized PDF files; Like this Reply to this comment


by simwit March 10, 2008 10:39 PM PDT: Seth, you indicate that PrimoPDF allows you to change resolution levels and doPDF does not. This is incorrect as you there is an option window on doPDF where you can alter the resolution, scale, paper size and orientation. You simply click on printer properties before you print (save) the document.

Both MagicPDF and doPDF are very similar, although I favour doPDF, despite MagicPDF producing more optimized documents, simply because MagicPDF cannot print images to PDF with resolutions lower than 150x150dpi while doPDF allows 72x72, 96x96 and 144x144. This is particularly useful if you have a large collection of pages that you must compress to a sensible size to be able to email across.; Like this Reply to this comment

by Utsav Patel March 11, 2008 12:19 AM PDT

Do Any one of it supports other languages fonts ?

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by soft_opinion March 12, 2008 11:30 PM PDT: Yes, it's true at least for PrimoPDF which I use. If the particular program from which you invoke the print dialoge supports non-Latin fonts, the resulting PDF document will display them correctly. Please note that installing the support for foreign language in the Regional options for Windows does not mean that you will be able to use them in all applications on that system. Here Primo may provide a solution to some problems. For example, there is no way to use the standard (Western) InDesign for typesetting texts in Arabic or Chinese, and sometimes I simply have to include such a component into a page layout. With PrimoPDF I can generate it from Word or OpenOffice, and save as a hi-res PDF to place as an image in InDesign.; Like this


by Chocobito March 11, 2008 10:41 AM PDT: Well, I use MagicPDF in my spanish Windows with spanish document and I don't have any problem; Like this Reply to this comment


by clavall March 12, 2008 8:12 AM PDT: Forget about both of these programs. Try PDF Redirect. It does everthing both of these apps can do plus merge or delete pages. Many languages available. Change resolution. Change destination directory. Fast, stable, easy, small,....Free.; Like this Reply to this comment


by camainc March 12, 2008 8:46 AM PDT: PrimoPDF supports merging, I use it all the time.; Like this Reply to this comment


by Linda Tallstar March 12, 2008 2:05 PM PDT: Would someone familiar with OpenOffice.org PDF creator compare it to these two? I am curious if OO is better than these.

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by oludir March 16, 2008 9:09 PM PDT: Don't forget office 2007 allows you to save as pdf in two different configurations.; Like this Reply to this comment