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Printer-based freeware PDF utilities like Softland's doPDF Free are unobtrusive yet flexible and a great choice for the home office, small business, and individual user. You just have to click the Print command in any application, and then select the program from your list of installed printers. Instead of printing out your converted document, the program saves it as a PDF. You can set basic output options like document size and resolution, but doPDF is designed to be as simple and lightweight as possible.
Although doPDF works like a print driver, it installs normally like any Windows program. During the installation process, you have the option to set doPDF as your default printer, which can be handy for business PCs that are mostly used to generate electronic documents such as invoices and purchase orders. You can also set up the program with a wide range of languages, too -- all of them or as many as you need. When the installer finished, doPDF's Startup window opened, along with a tutorial on the program's Web site. The Startup window is an ultra-simple conversion wizard with a browsing file entry field and Create, Help, and Close buttons. Clicking Help opens a fairly substantial Help file, but doPDF prints all the instructions you need right on the dialog. You can open the Startup window from doPDF's Start Menu entry, but the easiest way to use the program is by clicking Print and selecting doPDF from your list of printers. That's also how you access the program's minimal settings, via the Printing Preferences and Print Properties for doPDF under Devices and Printers. The program's properties sheet includes a button linking to a paid upgrade that offers more features than doPDF Free.
We created PDFs with doPDF by choosing the Print command from an open document and by opening the Startup window. Clicking Save opens a Save File dialog with several options, including whether to create small files or maximize image quality; there's also an option to open the finished product in your PDF reader. For simple PDF conversions, doPDF is all that many users need.
Publisher's Description
From Softland:
doPDF Free PDF Converter convert documents to searchable PDF files from any Windows application. It installs as a printer driver and helps you generate the PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application (you can convert your Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, AutoCad drawings, company's reports, contracts, workflows, agreements, marketing plans, forms, products list, price list, charts, emails or web pages). The resulted PDF files can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer (reader) installed. doPDF has a lot of features that allows you to modify the paper size, modify the resolution (from 72 to 2400 dpi), change page orientation (portrait, landscape), and change the quality settings.
What's new in this version: Version 7.3.388 has corrected conversion errors for documents with symbolic fonts and corrections for Excel and Word conversion.
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"Immediately REMOVED!"
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.3.388
Pros
I guess I'll never know...
Cons
First time I tried to use it, it wanted to be my default printer. I chose "No" as I want my PRINTER to be my default printer. The program immediately closed down, and then when I tried to use it by opening a Word document, when I opened the print box, doPDF 7 wasn't in the pull-down menu. When I tried to find it/browse my way to it, I found that anything to do with printing had been DISABLED.
Summary
If you don't use your printer too often, but usually make a lot of pdf's, then try this, I guess. I can't say if it's good or bad since it tried to arm-twist me into making it my default printer and wouldn't work (and disabled my connection to my computer) since I wouldn't.
Pardon me...it disabled my connection to my PRINTER. Sorry for any confusion.
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"Near-perfect!"
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.3.388
Pros
One of the few that serves what it claims. When the review said that this software could create PDF out of any readable file, it sure wasn't kidding. Converting has never before been so much easier.
Cons
Just that it took some trouble as well as some time for converting .djvu file to PDF. You can't covert it unless you have a djvu reader with you. Once you have it, you can convert it using some brains. I've given the procedure, in case you require it:
1. Open the djvu file to convert.
2. Click on the Print option.
3. Set the default printer as doPDF.
4. Click Print.
5. As the doPDF window appears, browse for the file location where you want to save it, and then click Okay.
The document gets converter. PS: It takes some time after the printing process is over for the converted file to come up. So, if you don't seem to get the file after converting it, don't panic. It WILL come after some time.Summary
Just if the djvu problem could be removed, it would have been a perfect anything-to-pdf converter. Other than that, I'm happy with it.
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"Works Great on Win 7 (x64)"
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.3.388
Pros
Have been using with Windows 7 Pro (x64) for over two years and works great. Can post PDF docs on my class of 1956 website and all classmates can read them. I always update to new versions.
Cons
None that I have found.
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