Does anyone have anyone have experience with deskPDF professional by docudesk
(http://www.docudesk.com/index.shtml)?
If it’ll work as well as adobe acrobat, it’s a steal. If you have anything to say about this product, I’d appreciate the inputs - good or bad.
Can you recommend a better (and cheap) alternative?
It would be good to know what you’re using it for. PDFCreator is free and can generate PDFs from pretty much anything you can print, even combine multiple documents as a single PDF. While it lacks the latest features of Acrobat, it supports 128 bit encryption and a few other bells and whistles. If all you need to do is convert documents to PDF I would check it out.
Open Office outputs PDF from its own or MS Word format files, virtually faultlessly in my experience. As a bonus you don’t have to pay MS’s exorbitant prices for their office suite any more.
We use the free version of PDF995 at work. It just installs a print driver and is compatible with everything we use. I have never known a problem with it.
What I want to do is go to websites, download files as PDFs, then selectively print the PDF pages. Say I downloaded 10 pages worth as PDFs. I now want to print pages 3 through 7.
I downloaded the PDF Create (3 files) at sourceforge as you recommended. Now, I’m trying to figure out how to download web files. If there’s an easy way to do this I would appreciate your explanation.
You can’t just do that with Acrobat Reader?
If by “download files as PDFs” you mean download PDF files that a web page has made available to you, then the free Acrobat Reader can do that. Or, I use the Foxit viewer because I don’t have to wait for Acrobat to load - Foxit displays the PDF pretty much instantly.
If you want to grab an HTML web page and save it as a PDF, that’s different. The PDFCreator product mentioned earlier can do that pretty easily by “printing” the web page to the PDFCreator program.
I don’t know about better BUT this is cheaper at No Cost to YOU
Yes, but for $9.99/month or $99.99/year.
Acrobat Reader is free. When you choose print, you can specify a page range (3-7) or even individual pages (3,5,7). Free.
Adobe Acrobat allows you to create PDF files. I use CutePDF to create PDF files from other documents. It, too, is free (at least the version I use is, I think they have more powerful versions that they sell).
I use PrimoPDF, as a Print>PDF solution, only because it’s the first one I stumbled across and it works.
For what it’s worth…
SnagIt 8.0 (@ $39.95) does the job. Check it out at techsmith.com.
What happened was I called the TechSmith 800 number to order the CD of SnagIt V 8.0. (I had downloaded it a little while ago and felt I should have a hardcopy just in case. While on the phone to a very nice gal, Pauline, I asked her about software that would download web files as pdfs - other than Acrobat. When she finished our business, she turned me over to Tech Support.
The guy there, Bill, told me that my .SnagIt 8.0 does exactly what I want!
So I opened my copy, and he talked me through it. We downloaded my home page (Google) as a pdf, using SnagIt. Bingo! I thanked him profusely, and after hanging up, I went to TalkingPointsMemo.com and downloaded their home page — ending up with a PDF file of 13 pages — which I can selectively print.
BTW, at first, Bill thought you could do this with Acrobat Reader as well. So I asked him how (remembering that a poster here said the same thing). But when he tried, he couldn’t download a web file as a pdf. Maybe you can, somehow. I am too computer-stupid to challenge anyone here on any issue.
Anyway, just thought you’d like to know this.
And please note: I have no affiliation whatever with TechSmith, or for that matter, any software, hardware, or in-between ware company in this here universe.
I struggled with that damned program for the better part of a day, and it still couldn’t handle certain symbol fonts or complex layouts from MS-Word. I was trying to make PDF files of a book I was working on to send out to the proofreaders and my editor. I finally gave up, bit the bullet, and bought Adobe. It’s worked flawlessly since.
Of course, last year I bought a Mac and switched to OpenOffice, and PDFs have worked flawlessly without having the Adobe softare loaded.