doPDF is a free utility for Windows that allows you to convert any type of printable documents to PDF files.
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It works by installing itself as a virtual PDF printer driver. After installation, to convert any file to PDF you simply open your document in any application that can print (Microsoft Word, WordPad, etc), select Print and select the doPDF virtual printer. It will ask you where you would like to save the newly created PDF file. Thats it.
This video shows how simple it is to create a PDF file with doPDF:
doPDF is a free PDF converter, not a PDF reader. In order to read PDF files you will need the free Adobe Reader, as with doPDF you can only print to PDF. Furthermore, doPDF doesn’t convert from PDF to a different format (i.e. from PDF to Word) nor does it allow editing PDF files.
Some of doPDF’s main features:
- Predefined page size – you can select a predefined page size for the resulting PDF file such as: A4, A5, A6, Letter, Legal, Executive, Envelope DL/C5/B5/Monarch/#10
- Custom page size – if you need more customization in terms of PDF page size, you can define your own custom size for the resulting document by entering the desired width and height (you can create documents as small as 10×10 millimeters, or as large as 3276×3276 millimeters).
- Measurement units – you can choose to have all measurements displayed in millimeters, inches or points, this way you don’t have to do any conversions of your own.
- Graphic resolution – you can set a custom resolution for images between 72 and 2400 dpi. A smaller resolution results in smaller PDF file, but lower image quality, while a higher resolution means better image quality, but bigger PDF file. The default value is 300 dpi.
- Graphic scale – the content of the resulting PDF can be shrunk to 1% off the original size, or enlarged up to 400%.
- Page orientation – Easily set the page orientation to be Landscape or Portrait, changes being visible in the Preview area
- Always use this folder – You can have doPDF create and save the PDF file to the same folder each time, no matter where you open the original document from.
- Embed font subsets – To ensure that the resulting PDF file will look exactly as originally intended, doPDF embeds by default the font subsets used in the original document.
- Open with PDF reader – You can choose to have the PDF opened with the default PDF reader once it’s converted.
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