Softworld editor's review -
Convert documents into PDF
doPDF free PDF creator is an application that can be used to convert various type of documents into the PDF file format.
The installation process is fast, as the size of the installer has only 4MB.
The program basically, is very easy to be used. When you start it, a window appears which allows you to load into the software a document for the PDF conversion process.
First, click on the button located right next to Create. Select from your hard drive a text file and then open it into the program.
Next, what needs to be done is simply to press on the Create function. Then you will be able to set the directory where you want to save your converted file.
Beside that, in this section you can also enable options such as: Open PDF in reader, Always use this folder, Embed Fonts, Small file and High quality images.
After you have finished setting up all the available options, just click on the OK button.
If the option Open PDF in reader is enabled, the application will open the PDF file into your default PDF reader.
Beside this method to convert documents in PDF, you may also use the guide which was displayed into the window that was launched right at the moment when you started the application.
Just open the file which you want to convert and then go and click on the File section. Here select Print and from the printer list choose "doPDF v7". The next move is to use the Print button.
By doing that, appears the window in which you are in the position to establish the location where your PDF document to be saved.
doPDF free PDF creator is a simple but very useful software.
This free program enables you to convert extremely easy and fast all sorts of files that support printing into the PDF file format.
Good:
-easy to use
-the program is capable to convert any file that supports printing into the PDF format
Bad:
-not to many configuring options
Version 7.2.369 reviewed on: 25 Aug 2011
Publisher's description
doPDF allows you to easily convert any printable document to PDF. For free.
Using 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.
This PDF converter is compatible with Windows 7/2000/XP/2003/Vista (32 and 64-bit versions) and requires approximately 10MB of free disk space for the installation. It doesn’t require third party tools to be installed in order to generate the pdf file (like Adobe Acrobat or GhostScript).
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), change the quality settings, embed font subsets and lots more. The user interface supports localization, thus using doPDF in your own language (currently English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, Korean, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese, Brazilian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Chinese Simplified, Russian, Greek and Hungarian are supported).
Changes on the new version:Several fixes
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