Reviews of doPDF

1. 
   gubmonte

   Reviewing 7.0.320 (Dec 13, 2009)

   So wait...are betanews ratings intended to rate the size of the application and not the functionality now? Dudeboyz, stop being a troll and rate how the application acts. When features are added, size often goes up. Not everyone is worried about operating things on their system containing 256MB of ram. There is no use having 4GB of ram if you are just leaving it sitting there.
2. 
   DudeBoyz

   Reviewing 7.0.320 (Dec 2, 2009)

   I'm a little concerned about the increase in the application size:
   
   v6.2.296 = 1,726,264
   v7.0.320 = 3,131,672
   
   Version 7 also seems to be slower than the 6.2.x versions.
   
   Yeah, Type 1 support is nice, as are subset embedding, but I'd like it more if they focused on keeping the application lean and clean.
3. 
   irwinofupton

   Reviewing 6.3.309 (Sep 15, 2009)

   Is this program lacking options: :yes. But having used it for over a year and since it does not require ancillary software to function what it does it does very well!
4. 
   us3r

   Reviewing 6.3.308 (Sep 14, 2009)

   Terrible application. Yes, it's fast and doesn't need additional libraries, but the quality of images and even some fonts is just terrible.
5. 
   christoofar

   Reviewing 6.3.308 (Aug 13, 2009)

   Discovered this recently & use it quite often to convert song lyrics in text into .pdfs to scroll on my laptop. Easy to use & works as advertised. Thanks to the authors.

Discuss doPDF

1. Jan 21, 2010 - 3:24 AM
   softland

   As some noticed version 7.1 has a slight increase in size compared to version 6.x, meaning it's now around 3.8MB (still a very small setup imo). Anyway the main two reasons for this increase in size are:
   - we've added that start-up page because many users didn't know how to create pdf files by printing; this was possible only using a separate exe which alone is about 2.5mb (uncompressed)
   - to keep the compatibility for Windows 2000 we had to distribute a dll that adds up for about 0.8mb too
   
   On a different note, the newly released version (7.1) supports now silent installation parameters, a much requested feature (mainly among enterprise users).
2. Mar 12, 2009 - 2:33 PM
   Pheno

   I use PDFCreator and am thinking about trying doPDF (both are freeware and for this I'm very appreciative) -- although I'm not sure if it's worth the time to try. From first glance, it seems like the two software have all the same features. For those who have tried both, is there a difference?
   
   I'm thinking there must be for doPDF to be a fileforum pick -- or is it an automatized pick due to the 0.1 rating difference between doPDF and PDFCreator?
3. Feb 2, 2009 - 4:00 AM
   softland

   Actually the version is 6.2.287 and not 6.1.287. The major improvement in this version is the addition of Font embedding.
4. Jan 21, 2009 - 4:15 PM
   BB88

   doPDF 6.1 build 286 was released. Update is not necessary, as this build only has some minor specific fixes.
   What's changed in doPDF 6.1.286:
   
   - Update: Added silent cancel printing - in previous versions, when the Cancel button was pressed from the Save As dialog, it would reload it and return an error when cancelling again - now this behavior is corrected and the Save As dialog is shown once.
   - Update: The character & is now allowed in the filename (was replaced in previous versions with underscore)
   - Update: Minor language file changes for Romanian, Russian, Slovenian and Ukrainian
   
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   Not sure if it's fixed in this version, but with previous version, when I create a PDF on the Newegg.com invoice, I get some magenta borders everywhere.