Comments on: Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: FinePrint

By: Rajaneesh

Rajaneesh — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:21:02 +0000

Wow excellent software. I hope many people will start using softwares like this, which will help our environment and save trees.

By: Alfie

Alfie — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:54:15 +0000

Just in time for my 70th Birthday?

By: sc

sc — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:20:24 +0000

Have always wanted to have this. Hopefully, I’ll be lucky this year.
Thanks.

By: Sling

Sling — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:51:04 +0000

FinePrint is a nice program.

It’s good for you to print your jobs to a shared printer, since there are chances that someone else may take your printouts away, especially when your printed jobs get embedded into others’ ones. It can allow you to put a banner (e.g., your name on the first, or every page of your printed job), you (of course, other users) can easily find your printed jobs from a stack of paper.

However, it does have some shortcomings. Nowadays, more and more scientific journals put some banners (like, where and when you download their PDF file) on each page of a given PDF file. These banners generally run vertically on each page. I’m not sure whether the latest version of FinePrint can handle these banners well. The earlier version can not handle these banners well. For example, it generally prints these vertical banners horizontally that make normal words illegible. It sometimes can handle part of the vertical banners with tightly squeezed fonts.

Sometimes, FintPrint can not handle well embeded images in a given PDF file (the images in the preview is OK, but the actual printout is not.).

Sometimes, FintPrint converts the English words in a given PDF file to strange characters.

If FintPrint can get rid of this shortcomings, it’ll be very useful.

By: Mario

Mario — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:28:44 +0000

I used it in my previous office. Really one of the best program of this kind!

Mario

By: Bob Gest

Bob Gest — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:03:25 +0000

Would love to have a license. I imagine I could save over a thousand trees.

By: inter

inter — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:29:33 +0000

4 trees!
Thanks

By: enzonline

enzonline — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:14:51 +0000

10000 trees!!!
Thank You!

By: Cesar Ney

Cesar Ney — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:58:42 +0000

Lets sava millions of trees.

Excellent giveaway!

Thanks!

By: Tommy09

Tommy09 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:00:24 +0000

Nice blog. Fineprint looks like a helpful utility.
It would be great to win and therefore help saving some trees.

By: Bookman

Bookman — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:44:37 +0000

This program is very well designed – It remains really unobtrusive until it is required – ie when you print and only then does it automatically appear (if it is the default printer) and that’s when it does it’s magic.

By: thomas

thomas — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:07:02 +0000

Great features – Microsoft better hire these guys and make it a default in Windows OS. I intend to save a lot of trees….

By: tux

tux — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:25:23 +0000

Would love a copy. The processing options are nice.

By: John

John — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:01:54 +0000

Great features – Makes you wonder why this sort of thing isn’t built in to the operating system by default given how many times we end up getting “surprised” by what our print outs look like… ;-)

By: Michael Malone

Michael Malone — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:52:26 +0000

I would save at least a hundred trees with my copy, thanks.

By: barney_ghl

barney_ghl — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:17:36 +0000

Fiddlesticks! Looks like I missed one!

By: Alfie

Alfie — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:53:33 +0000

Great software. Not as many trees as my daughters would save as they go through reams of paper on my printer!

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:11:42 +0000

Interesting to see this software here. I had installed similar software from HP but could not get around to use it (cryptic instructions). I could use FinePrint until all websites have printer-friendly pages to start with :-)

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:30:45 +0000

I need it to can print tons of technical docs to my postgrade…

Would love to win this one!

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:34:41 +0000

This is great software…I have been a fan of it and FinePrint PDF Factory… With FinePrint and the sister product PDF Factory; I really save alot of trees because I don’t have to use even one tree…

Whomever gets the license for FinePrint; it is really great software!

Rick