gHacks technology news » dopdf http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The best way to create pdf documents http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/22/the-best-way-to-create-pdf-documents/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/22/the-best-way-to-create-pdf-documents/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:46:31 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/22/the-best-way-to-create-pdf-documents/ I have been using two methods to create pdf documents lately and made the decision to stick with one of them after evaluating both of them. Creating pdf documents is not something that I have to do on a daily basis but it was always a rather complicated process because I did not want to purchase a professional version of Adobe Acrobat only to create a handful of documents each year.

The first method that I discovered was a online service that created a pdf document out of documents that I would upload to their website. The newly created pdf document was then send to my email account. While this message had the advantage that I did not have to install a software on my system it has some disadvantages.

The most important for me are privacy concerns. I sometimes have to convert documents that I don’t want to expose to others and I don’t want to take that risk even if it is a slim one.

A far better solution in my opinion is doPDF which installs itself as a pdf printer on your system. Whenever you would need a pdf document you would simply choose to print – which does not print but save – the document that you want to convert.

This way a pdf document is created without third party involvement which is way better in my opinion.

Take a look at the Youtube video to see a demonstration:

link: dopdf homepage
online pdf converter: pdf online

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/22/the-best-way-to-create-pdf-documents/feed/ 12 Free Fast Virtual PDF Printer http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/08/free-fast-virtual-pdf-printer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/08/free-fast-virtual-pdf-printer/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:35:13 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/08/free-fast-virtual-pdf-printer/ I’m currently using the Screen grab extension in Firefox to save complete websites as pdf files to read them later or print them eventually. Screen grab has some limitations, mainly size of the website that should be saved and that it only works in Firefox. I sometimes use Opera or want to convert other documents such as emails to pdf.

DoPDF looks like the perfect replacement for Screen Grab. It is a freeware application for Windows and takes only a few megabytes of hard drive space. It adds a virtual printer to your installed printers in Windows and you can choose to make it the default one. Please make sure that the Print Spooler service is running during installation, otherwise the setup of the virtual printer will fail.

Once installed you can select the virtual printer in every print screen with the option to configure the output further. It is possible to define width and height or use predefined formats for the output. The last step is to simply select a filename and location for the newly created pdf file.

It will be saved in that location on your hard drive and displayed when the creation finishes. I decided to stress test it a little bit. The creation of a 41 paged text document took only two seconds. I uninstalled Screen grab immediately after seeing this incredible results.

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