CNET Editors' review
Free, yes. Easy, yes. Satisfactory, no. Free Easy PDF is a simple but fatally crippled text editor that can save documents in PDF format. It supports essential formatting features such as fonts, bullets, highlighted text, and tables. In addition, you can insert images (BMP only), bookmarks (which you can't name), and hyperlinks to bookmarks. However, despite its supposed freeware price, the program watermarks its PDFs. That makes it no more valuable than Windows' built-in WordPad, and probably less so, given that it can't save documents in text, RTF, or any format besides its proprietary Easy PDF Project. Only its polished, Word-like interface saves it from a lower rating. Since you almost certainly have a better word processor already, we'd recommend installing a separate freeware utility to convert documents to PDF. It's almost as easy, and just as free.
Publisher's Description
From Visage software:
Free Easy PDF is a specialized WYSIWYG environment for quickly and easily creating Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. Easy PDF provides all the power to create sophisticated PDF documents, and apply links/hypertext on the final document.
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All versions:
2.8 starsout of 13 votes
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Current version:
2.8 starsout of 13 votes
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"NOT FREEWARE!"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Pros
NONE!!!!!!
Cons
This is SHAREWARE!
This is CRIPPLEDWARE!
This should be classified under SHAREWARE, not FREEWARE!!! -
"Read the license agreement!"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Cons
They call it free, but, quote from the license agreement: "This is not free software....If you use the software after the 20 day evaluation period, a licence fee is payable" This would imply to me that, even if you can live with the ads, you are still not legal to use it after 20 days. Beware those of you who like to be legal on your software, but don't read the license terms!
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"Great!"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Pros
I don't use the free version, I use the paid one. This PDF creator in the WYSIWYG environment is great! I just hope they would make its interface skinnable and prettier like the other VisageSoft products. This app doesn't slow down my PC and makes high-quality PDF for a low price.
Cons
The not-so-nice interface, and the outdated release.
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"Free but comes at an irritating advert from them!"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Pros
Making free PDF documents. We use the "READ TO ME" features in Acrobat a lot because some of our readers are blind.
Cons
We make PDF documents / newletters for people, some of them blind. They use the "READ TO ME" feature in software they have, and Acrobat. The watermark on EACH PAGE made the documents we made with EasyPDF so irritating for the blind that they asked me to go back to Word and forget about ever using EasyPDF for their documents, even though it was "free". - After converting 20 documents without realising this flaw, I have searched for a way to disable the adverts without success. Although we are very frustrated by having to go back and redo all the newsletters, we are glad we didn't delete the original Word texts. NO MENTION OF THIS IS MADE IN THE PROGRAM DESCRIPTION / LIMIT.
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"fails to convert correctly word documents"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Summary
for complex word documents containing images, drawings etc, doesn't preserve page aspect
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"not free"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
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"Not bad"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Summary
This is a good product if you don't mind about the watermark in each page of your PDF file. It's very easy to use, with an intuitive interface and generates very good PDF files, the only boring thing is the watermark (that's what you get when you look for freebies)
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"very good for a freebie"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Summary
does exactly what it says it does. ok so you get an advert for their website at the top of every page, but what do you expect for a freebie?
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"Nothing free about this"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Summary
It says is free, yeah if you want their web site url listed on every page you convert. Nice program other wise
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"Not useful"
Version: Free Easy PDF 2.2.1
Summary
Very easy to set up. This program would be great if it didn't have the above written on top of every page of PDF files it makes:
Easy PDF Copyright © 1998,2002 Visage Software. This document was created with FREE version of Easy PDF.Please visit http://www.visagesoft.com for more details.
