gHacks technology news » pdf printer http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 PDF Creator http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/04/pdf-creator/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/04/pdf-creator/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:33:49 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/04/pdf-creator/ PDF Creator is an Open Source software program to create pdf documents by adding itself as a virtual printer that can be used to send and convert documents into the pdf format. The virtual printer has the advantage that PDF Creator can be used by virtually any application that can access printers in the Windows operating system.

PDF Creator is compatible with most Windows operating systems including the beta of Windows 7. The application makes use of Ghostscript to provide the pdf functionality. The pdf software generator comes with a few additional features that makes it interesting. It can created PDF/A documents, create encrypted pdf documents and merge multiple documents into one pdf document.

PDF Creator can also create different file formats like PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS. Another interesting option is to install the PDF Creator application to run on terminal servers.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/04/pdf-creator/feed/ 12 Create PDF Documents out of any Windows Application http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/create-pdf-documents-out-of-any-windows-application/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/create-pdf-documents-out-of-any-windows-application/#comments Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:07:55 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/create-pdf-documents-out-of-any-windows-application/ I regularly have to create pdf invoices which some companies seem to prefer over other forms of documents and I have been using doc to pdf online converters until now that would convert the Microsoft .doc file into the Adobe .pdf file. I have two major problems with this procedure however.

The first is that i have to upload my invoice to a website so that it can be processed and converted into the portable document format. This is a privacy issues and I love my privacy as you all know. The second is that websites come and go and there is no telling if the website with the converter script will be there the next year.

I therefor decided to try some local solutions to create pdf documents without having to purchase Adobe Acrobat. WinPDF Writer is such a solution. It creates a virtual printer that creates pdf documents out of any text document that you create in Windows applications.

It’s working flawlessly with Microsoft Office and I suppose it would work with other applications as well. I just have to select the virtual printer to create the pdf document.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/02/16/create-pdf-documents-out-of-any-windows-application/feed/ 11 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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