PDF Converter Professional 7 – A First Look

PDF Converter Professional 7 – A First Look Program: PDF Converter Professional 7.0 Publisher: Nuance Communications, Inc. License: Commercial Price: List $99. Price on Apr. 3, 2011 at Amazon: $48.59 . Every once in a while, a program that’s designed for business use is so helpful and priced so reasonably that it’s useful for home
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What’s a PDF and Why Do I Need One?

As I wrote in my weekly email newsletter (sign up here), one of my subscribers wanted to know about a free program to let him fill in PDF forms. The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe to be a cross-platform document display tool. Whether the user is using Windows, Mac, Linux or some [...]

Why Do We Have PDF Files?

As you have no doubt noticed, in today’s world, almost all the documentation we receive with our computers, peripheral hardware and software is in the Portable Document Format (PDF) designed by Adobe. Adobe created the PDF file format and distributed free PDF file readers (Adobe Reader, originally called Adobe Acrobat Reader) for Windows, Linux, Mac [...]

HOWTO: Change Your Default Printer

In all versions of Windows, whether you have one printer or more, only one of those printers is set as the "Default Printer". The default printer is the printer on which many programs will print, if you click their Print icon. Most programs also have a Print option under their File menu, which will display [...]

Create a PDF by Printing

Create PDF Files Easily Yourself By Printing Them! Program:   Click2PDF Publisher:  Blue Squirrel Category:  Utility – pseudo-printer to create Adobe Reader (.pdf) files License:  Commercial Product, $19.95, free trial I have been using Click2PDF for a couple years to create .pdf files easily from my computer. What’s a .pdf file? It is a file in the Portable Document [...]

Creating PDF Files with PDFCreator

Product: PDFCreator Class: Utility, pdf creation softwae License: Free, open-source, GPL license. Operating Systems: Windows Version Reviewed: v0.9.8 I’ve written a number of times that I often Click2PDF, a PDF creation program, to create .pdf files to document the purchases I make on the Internet. Since Click2PDF is a commercial program (it’s $19.95, and is [...]

Using PDFCreator to Combine and Save Multiple Prints in One PDF File

One of the features that I’ve had trouble finding in any PDF creation software other than Click2PDF and ClickBook is the ability to print multiple times into the PDF creation software’s program, and then to be able to save the prints as one big PDF file. Even better is the ability to delete some of [...]

Using PDFCreator to Save Print Jobs as Individual PDF Files

Once you have installed PDFCreator, it’s easy to use it to document anything that Windows will print. All you have to do is to use the Windows Print dialog box to select PDFCreator as the "printer" that you want to use. When you print, next, you’ll get the PDFCreator dialog box shown in the image [...]