Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Smart Alternative to Adobe

PDF Creator (Capsoft Inc.) is a nice tool to convert any file to the PDF format. Often, I need to quickly convert a word or power point document into PDF. This becomes an issue when I do not have access to my office computer on which I have the Adobe PDF Pro installed. I ve come across a tool that works fine converting literally any file format to PDF. The tool also allows you to encrypt the PDF file. The installation is no-brainier and runs through in seconds. It asks you to reboot your computer though. Upon completion the installation, it creates a printer named "PDF creator". When you need to convert a file to PDF, you just send the file to the "PDF creator" printer and pick a location to save the file. I tried a few different file formats such as word, bmp, ppt - it worked nice and quick. You can also restrict access to the converted PDF file by encrypting the file with 128 bit encryption. The encryption feature may come handy if the file has to be sent over the Internet but it contains private or confidential info. The recipient opens the encrypted file in the PDF reader and type in the password (given that the password was exchanged before hand). Another useful feature is the ability to combine multiple files into a single PDF. You simply convert the first file into PDF and save it, and then you convert another file and save it with the same name and location as the first file. The tool will ask you whether to add the second file to the beginning or the end of the existing PDF document. You can combine together as many files as you need. There are videos provided by vendor that show step by step how to work with the tool even though I would say that the tool is pretty intuitive. The vendor also allows you to evaluate the tool with all features enabled for a couple of days for free. If you need a quick and easy to use PDF converter you should definitely consider the PDF Creator by Capsoft Inc. http://www.converttoapdf.com/

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