Showing posts with label PDF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PDF. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Sumatra PDF

"Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Portable out of the box.

Sumatra has a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features.

It's small and starts up very fast.

It's designed for portable use: only one file so you can run it from external USB drive. Doesn't write to registry."

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

PDF-XChange Viewer

PDF-XChange Viewer is "smaller, faster, and more feature rich than the Adobe reader". It is free for private and commercial use. Additional features are also available in the pro version that they sell.

In addition to all the standard features here are some of the features available in the PDF-XChange FREE Viewer

  • Add Comments and Annotations to any PDF file (subject to security settings) - unlike the Adobe Viewer which requires the PDF creation tool to be 'certified' by Adobe !
  • Add & apply Custom Stamps from any Image or PDF File and even your Windows Clip board !
  • Mark-up pages with text and objects
  • Type directly on any PDF page, not just Adobe enabled forms documents - in Typewriter mode.
  • Export PDF pages or entire files to any one of the supported Image formats including BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and many more ...
  • Extract text from a PDF page/File
  • Make your navigation of large or complex PDF files both simple and enjoyable with the extended functionality of our 'Loupe' and the 'Pan' Window tools
  • Fill and Save Adobe Forms to disk, email or 'post' !
  • Full Javascript Engine included
  • Updated JPEG2000 Compression support - improving speed.
  • Plug-Ins for both MS IE or Firefox Browser's included
  • Integrate seamlessly with your favourite translation software to translate text on the 'fly' - including : ABBYY Lingvo 12, Translate It!, Lingoes.
  • Includes comprehensive Help file and PDF Manual - no extra downloads required to add features etc.
  • Portable version also available - can be run from any suitable device such as a Memory stick/CD/DVD etc - simply unzip and use - no installation required - just 4MB download !

Saturday, February 02, 2008

2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

" . . . allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs. Specific features vary by program."

Discussion:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/access/ha101675271033.aspx

Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

PDF-T-Maker

"You create documents in Microsoft Word, spare no effort to produce proper headings, lists of contents, links and cross references, an index, and want to pass on the document as PDF file? You want to produce rich PDF files which contain all meta information from your Word document as bookmarks, hyperlinks, comments etc.? You look for a solution that costs little or even nothing?

Your solution could be PDF-T-Maker: PDF-T-Maker is an add-in to Word. Similar to almost any PDF converter, as first step PDF-T-Maker converts your Word document into a PostScript file. You can send this PostScript file through a distiller, that generates the PDF file from it. As distiller you may use stand-alone solutions such as Adobe Distiller or GhostScript as well as pre-configured, highly automated solutions such as FreePDF XP, qvPDF, PDFCreator etc. This way, with a minimum of effort you can configure a one-click solution that does not cost a penny."

Works with PDFCreator, apparently. I found the following comment in the release notes for PDFCreator v 0.9.5:

"No hyperlinks possible (Hyperlinks for MS Word are possible with the combination of PDF-T-Maker and PDFCreator."

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Foxit Software

Foxit Software - PDF Tools

A whole array of free and not free PDF reading, creating, editing tools including (among others):

Thursday, February 01, 2007

PDFCreator

PDFCreator

"PDFCreator easily creates PDF files from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application. GNU General Public License (GPL)."

Monday, January 29, 2007

pdftk - the pdf toolkit

"If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:

  • Merge PDF Documents

  • Split PDF Pages into a New Document

  • Rotate PDF Pages or Documents

  • Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)

  • Encrypt Output as Desired

  • Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data or XFDF Data and/or Flatten Forms

  • Apply a Background Watermark or a Foreground Stamp

  • Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels

  • Update PDF Metadata

  • Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document

  • Unpack PDF Attachments

  • Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages

  • Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams

  • Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris."