Solid PDF Creator User Reviews
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"worked for 1 day then adware and crashing"
Version: Solid PDF Creator 7.1
Pros
Free, installs fast, works well initially
Cons
Only worked the day I installed it; next day adware popped up with each print and then the print window would crash. Uninstalled.
Summary
Unreliable. Keep looking.
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"very fast download"
Version: Solid PDF Creator 7.1
Pros
a nice product, recomended
Cons
nothing to say
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"Program is too slow"
Version: Solid PDF Creator 7.1
Pros
To convert only, this program is recommandable.
Cons
Trial to scan. After 10 pages you have to wait 15 minutes until the automatic optimizatiion ends. After scanning in a new document I miss more often parts of the original. The OCR is the old MODI from MS Office 2007. It's absolutly not timely.
Summary
If you want convert only. Its OK. If you want scan you have to have patience.
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"Program did not run"
Version: Solid PDF Creator 7.1
Pros
None that I could see.
Cons
The program did not run on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine. Execution began, but then the program hung. I thought that this might be a replacement for Cute PDF Writer, but I quickly switched back.
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"Seems OK, but only ran a few short tests"
Version: Solid PDF Creator 7.0 build 719
Pros
Fairly straightforward installation, and running it. I had neither nag screen nor my default printer being changed as others indicated; but maybe I didn't test it long enough.
Cons
Wasn't sure if it didn't always ask me for topic, author, etc.
Summary
At least would be fine for casual user with intermittent need for this function.
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""Successful conversation" but PDF blank. And NOT FREE!!"
Version: Solid PDF Creator 7.0 build 719
Pros
Couldn't find any, despite having re-tried several times
Cons
1 - Didn't work for me!
2 - Info says FREE, it is not, just a trial version
3 - And my default printer got unmarked, w/o my opinion...Summary
No thanks! (couldn't find yet an uninstaller, not in the proper folder, but will find it and use it a.s.a.p.)
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"Does the job but at some expense to convenience."
Version: Solid PDF Creator 7.0 build 719
Pros
It makes good multi-page PDF documents and the Print to PDF option does what it says on the tin. It was fairly straight forward to install and worked almost as described.
Cons
Rather invasive. Installing as a printer wouldn't be bad if it didn't seem to set itself as the default printer every time I used it. It wasn't free and the makers really shouldn't be nagging to pay for it each time we open it to use it.
Summary
A good way to create a PDF document from multiple paged docs but annoying that it isn't really free. It would be better if it had a 30 uses or 30 day option and a cheaper upgrade price, and so far I've not found it usable enough and instead have put a genuinely free one on my system called "doPDF" which works identically and doesn't take over the default printing nor does it nag about buying it. So I voted with my feet so to speak.
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"Does the job very well but not quite how I expected."
Version: Solid PDF Creator 6.0
Pros
This makes very effective PDF documents containing multi-pages and pictures. You get to file the result just where you ask for it to be placed.
It's also the only bit of free software I could find that didn't infest my system with fussy stuff.Cons
The drag-and-drop files into the icon only makes a single item pdf not multi-pages.
Running it required that the program installed itself as a "printer" on your system.Summary
My requirement was to find software that would do a one-off creation of a 5 page document of music manuscript from 5 scanned jpgs. I was hoping this software would allow me to select 5 jpgs and it would put them all in one pdf document. To make it work I had to create the document first in MS Word and then "Print" this to the PDF Creator instead of to my Printer. I've never understood how something can print to a program rather than an inline printer. It's a bit like when something prints to the hard drive - how is that different to saving the item as a file? You can't write ink onto a hard drive or a program! Never mind, at least when I made the 5 page document in MS Word I printed it to the Solid PDF and it made a very nice .pdf file though it was a bit annoying that it kept nagging me about evaluating and counting the days I've used it. Either it is Freeware or it isn't and I suspect it will give up after 30 days use, or 30 uses. I notice it doesn't tell you how much it is going to cost you if and when you do try to register it so that's another minus point for me. If the makers are proud of the product they shouldn't be so shy about the price!
As a postscript to my review posting, I thought it might be useful to state the new way of making pdf documents free of charge - I discovered since posting this criticism/appraisal of the software, that if you run the Free Word Processing program called Open Office it has a facility to Export any document (even multi-pages) as a PDF format file. So you simply scan the photos you want in the document or the type/scan the text, or just import jpgs into the document in Open Office - then save it as a pdf and it is a perfect result.
Updated on Jan 22, 2011
I shouldn't really be advertising or giving views on a different piece of software but since other contributors have suggested cheaper software than Solid PDF, I thought it was ok to say that you can do this another way and it works a treat.
Open Office does seem to be a dead-ringer for MS Word but we won't go into that. I hope this info is useful to anyone having problems making PDF documents. -
"IT IS NOT FREE!!!"
Version: Solid PDF Creator 6.0
Pros
I immediately uninstalled it after discovering that it was not free.
Cons
This software is misrepresented as being free. The "trial" version places a watermark on the documents that it creates.
Summary
Download PrimoPDF instead.
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"can't use it"
Version: Solid PDF Creator 6.0
Pros
it works fine, quick and good quality
Cons
it has a BIG watermark asking to purchase, you can't use this unless you buy it.
should be in free to try, or just a demo. not free.
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