CNET Editors' review
doPDF is a fairly basic program that's utterly bereft of features beyond its main function: to let users create PDF documents from within any program using the native Print option. Along with whatever printer you've got hooked up that shows up in the Print dialog box, doPDF adds an eponymous option. Select it, hit print, and you get the chance to change the name of the PDF you're creating. Hit enter and the PDF gets created, then automatically opens for you to proofread it.
Lacking any customization features and the control panel to manage them, doPDF is definitely meant for fast PDF creation with a minimum of fuss. It does support a multitude of languages, a minor feature except to those who don't use English as their primary language. One benefit of not having any major features is that doPDF takes up almost no RAM.
doPDF gives a simple output dialog box for altering the name and saving location of the PDF, and by clicking on Advanced Options, users can manually adjust the resolution of the PDF they're creating. However, unless you know precisely how resolution changes will affect the size of your PDF, this can be a bit tricky. doPDF is great for those not looking for a lot of a options, but for any project requiring a bit more finesse, it's worth looking at the competition.
Publisher's Description
From Softland:
With doPDF you can freely 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 7.2.376 fixed where Skew font characters do not work well, the characters are rotated instead of skewed when printing CAD drawings (idw, ipt, spl).
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All versions:
4.3 starsout of 569 votes
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Current version:
4.1 starsout of 7 votes
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"It's free, it does the job."
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.2.376
Pros
It is intuitive to use. Few bells and whistles but it gets the job done quickly and simply.
Cons
There are not so many working tools.
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"Good basic program"
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.2.376
Pros
Works good
Cons
None at all
Summary
Works with and without windows formats. And with .doc forms with image. Also it printed with no problem.
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"Very sub par product. Produces incorrect results."
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.2.376
Pros
Haven't noticed any.
Cons
Couldn't get a simple image to pdf correctly. Somehow it decided to rotate the image.
People say that it converts word documents to pdf, well, it's much easier to use word to save the document as pdf!!!Summary
Waste of time. Cannot add multiple images as pages to a pdf. One one image to a new pdf, not to mention it messes that up anyway.
Fortunately, word will let you save as pdf, that saves me ton of time and frustration and produces expected results. -
"wowwwww excellent"
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.2.376
Pros
fast, and very accurated
Cons
nothing to say
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"free softwae which i needed to convert word to pdf"
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.2.376
Pros
i had no problem at all the first time converting word documents to pdf.
Cons
i see no problem using this software.
Summary
if you need a free word o pdf converter give hs one a try.
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"Does the job it is designed to do"
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.2.376
Pros
Converts from excel as expected
Cons
I have not found any real faults with the program
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"Exactly what I was looking for!"
Version: doPDF Free PDF Converter 7.2.376
Pros
Thankful for a free PDF converter. Successfully converts the type of documents I needed.
Cons
I have no complaints.
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