Topic: PDF drivers, your favorite?

[Glenn R]

heh. Just noticed I've past the 1k post mark...good on me 

[Antisthenes]

acrobat 3d 8.1 of course because i can drag and drop my 3d CAD models into PDF's and make the smallest most standard PDF's

[Josh Nieman]

acrobat 3d 8.1 of course because i can drag and drop my 3d CAD models into PDF's and make the smallest most standard PDF's

That is pretty sweet.

That's a pretty steep price tag for Acrobat 3D, but man... that is neat.

[Antisthenes]

here is a question i have:

what PDF printer or setting would i set so u don't get prompted for file names when doing Publishes ?


and a blast from the past, does anybody remember the days of postscript printer driver EPS file printing?  or virtual HPGL Plt file printing,   does anybody still used these techniques for reprographics?    maybe i am just spoiled by in house OCE

[Josh Nieman]

This is a new one I hadn't heard of.

Free today on giveawayoftheday.com :

Giveaway of the Day - Adolix PDF Converter PRO

Create PDF files from any application that supports printing. You can preview your file, merge multiple files into a single PDF, secure it with encryption and passwords, split it, change compression and color options, rotate pages and even manage page order.

[Bob Wahr]

Heh, I just came to this thread to post that.

[architecture68-raff]

Giveaway of the Day - Adolix PDF Converter PRO

I'm not sure if it's 100% accurate, but this comment from the site might indicate it wouldn't be particularly useful for CAD work:

It includes a line of text to the bottom of each page of the created pdf: “Create PDF-files without this message by purchasing novaPDF printer (http://www.novapf.com).

So I do not consider this a fair giveaway, even if it works perfectly.

[Josh Nieman]

WOW, yea after reading a number of comments (I had previously only read the first dozen or so) this thing appears to be a steaming pile.

Sorry for the link!  Took it for face value... appears to be something to avoid, actually, as a freebie...may be worth it if you purchase the novapdf driver or something, I don't know... but oh well... at least you can get the freebie version to try it out and then see if the purchase version is worth buying.

[Willie]

Software like that is refered to as Crippleware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware

[Willie]

I installed Adolix PDF Converter PRO, but it was gone again after 30 seconds.    The experience wasnt very good.