Business PDF Writer 3.02

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This program handles its main job of PDF conversion well enough and offers several helpful extras, but its confusing, poorly designed interface may scare off some users. Besides the ability to convert documents such as Excel spreadsheets and Word documents into PDFs, the app also boasts features for splitting, joining, encrypting, and decrypting PDF files. However, when we clicked the system-tray icon, we couldn't find the main conversion feature. We had to read the help files to learn that Business PDF Writer installs itself as a printer, and that you must print your selected file to transform it. We really wished the developer would have put all this utility's features into one integrated interface for easy access. Still, the program performs well enough, quickly converting, splitting, and joining all files we threw its way. The encryption feature gives you a high degree of control, letting you allow or disallow such actions as changing or printing a PDF. If the developer would only hammer out the problematic interface, we think Business PDF Writer would be a more compelling option.

Publisher's description

From BureauSoft :

Business PDF Writer is a bundle offer that includes a PDF writer, a PDF split/merge utility, a PDF encrypt/decrypt utility, a PDF info/compression utility, and a PDF layout utility. Creating a PDF file is as simple as selecting the Print command from any software and choosing PDF Writer in the drop list of your printers.

Business PDF Writer offers such features as custom paper size, orientation, resolution, summary information, compatibility, PDF layout control, automatic font embedding, image enhancement, live hyperlinks, content protection, PDF compression, 128-bit encryption and decryption, and PDF optimization. More than 60 languages are supported with special characters neatly printed in PDF files.

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