doPDF – a Tool for converting to PDF

PDF is stand for Portable Document Format and it was created by Adobe to ease document exchange. The document of the type PDF is normally called PDF file. This file can be open with Adobe Acrobat Reader. However, there are still other tools which can read the file of the PDF format as it is a standard format of the file.

How to create PDF?
Pdf can be create by the concept of converting from any document format. There many tools which do this thing for you, no worry. Adobe create a Adobe Acrobat Professional which is integrated the tools for converting to pdf. However, Adobe Acrobat Professional is commercial, that is why for students it is really a problem.

In this article, I want to introduce a free PDF converting tool which is just found out after the discussion with my friend. You can go download this tool from the website dopdf.com.

Whatever the tools are, the common method to convert from text document to pdf is to use Print. Because, when the convert tool is installed on your machine, it creates a virtual printer which can be select during the printing and that printer will do the conversion for you.

I know you know how to print, right?

doPDF
doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

Converting option
doPDF gives two options for us in order to do the conversion. The first option is as the common method I presented above in the section How to create PDF? And the second one is as the following:

Go to Start->Programs->doPDF and click on doPDF to start the conversion wizard. Use the Browse button to select the file you want converted and after that click onCreate to convert the document to PDF. Screenshot below shows how easy it is to convert to PDF from Microsoft Word (word to pdf):

Brief features of doPDF

• 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.

Source: http://dopdf.com

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