Turn your Microsoft Excel tables, Word documents, PowerPoint presentation and other compatible Office files into PDFs with automatically calculated sizes and page settings each of which is configurable including simplified switching between A4, A5, A6, Letter, Legal, Executive, Envelope DL/C5/B5/Monarch/#10.
This program is a great way to convert your documents to PDF, the most popular document format for portability nowadays. This program installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so you can convert your documents just by printing them. The process is extremely easy. If you know how to print you know how to convert any document to PDF using this program. Just select doPDF in the Print Dialog and press the “Print” button. A dialog window will appear asking for the name and location of a new file. The conversion speed depends on the document’s complexity but in general it is quite fast, and in few seconds you’ll have your new PDF Document created.
Of course, there are other programs that do the same, but unfortunately you must pay for most of them. The great advantage of doPDF is that it’s FREE, really free for personal and commercial use without nag texts or screens. This company has a commercial version of this program named NovaPDF, with some functions in addition (adding watermarks, PDF Security and shared network PDF printer). But if you need just a simple way to convert your documents to PDF this is the right solution.
You can print PDF documents from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Fireworks and even Notepad. In fact you can convert documents from any application with printing support. This program works great under Windows Vista and can be installed on 64 bit operating systems. It doesn’t require any additional software and the files created by this program are smaller than the ones created by other applications.
The driver interface is translated into English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese from Brazil, Portuguese from Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
v7.2 [Dec 2, 2010]
It contains one important feature, now on the Save As dialog you will be able to select between a "Small file" and a "High quality images" filter. Each of these filters uses basically a different compression engine for the documents:
- Normal ZIP compression for the Small file filter
- High JPEG compression for the High quality images filter
By default the "Small file" filter will be selected, but if you're not happy with the quality of the images in the resulting PDF, then you should use the other filter (which increases the size of the resulting PDF).
- Fix: Corrected a problem when printing from Internet Explorer 9 (would crash in certain situations during conversion)
- Fix: Tiff images printed from Adobe PageMaker were not converted correctly
- Fix: Corrected downsampling error for 8bpp images
- Fix: Corrected install on XP 32 bit when the x64 folder does not exist
- New: Added new predefined page sizes (for AutoCAD)
- Fix: Some customers reported that the Print Spooler hangs on client restart on 32 bit Windows 7 computers, that's fixed now
- New: Added /InstallOnlyNewerVer parameter for command line installations
- Fix: Corrected installation on Windows 2000
- Fix: Correction for Greek character conversions
- Fix: Correction for rendering patterns
- The uninstaller for doPDF (unins000.exe) is now signed too
- Optimized the monochrome image conversion
- Lines created with Highlight in Windows Journal were not printed (fixed now)
- New: Added full version info for startup application (dopdf.exe from the Program Files directory) to improve version detection for update managers
- Fix: Corrected Type1 font subsetting (Monospac821 BT Type 1 font was not correctly embedded)
