The BEST $9.95 you will spend on software!

Pros: Offers a wealth of useful features for creating pdf documents out of almost anything. You can convert photos, scanned items or anything you can print to a pdf. You can then combine any number of single pdf documents into a larger pdf booklet file. You can also convert the other way, from pdf to jpeg, bmp, png or tif. You can also combine multiple pdf files onto a single page (like if you had several small photos and wanted to put them all on one page). You can use many different page sizes for output, and they also have a custom size where you can specify whatever dimensions you want. You can even rotate or crop pages that are already in pdf format. These are just some of what they call the free tools, because the program was actually designed to allow you to fill out pdf forms and submit the completed forms on-line. I haven't really used this feature yet, but I found another use for it. I printed the NCAA tournament bracket (by "print" I mean I converted it to a pdf document file on my drive) and I will use the form filler function to fill in the results of each game til the end-it looks really cool. Also.....Free Updates for Life!! Compare that with companies like Intuit who just announced they will cease support for Quicken versions before 2003 to force people to pony up again. Enterprises like this one should be shunned while the word about PDFill should be spread like wildfire. And NO, I am not on their payroll.

Cons: There's not much I did not like, only a few very minor annoyances. One was the margin setting always shows the default 1/2 inch on all 4sides. You can change it manually, but you can't change the default so it will start with the desired setting. However, I wrote an e-mail to them and they say they will actually try to incorporate it into the next update! How is that for responsiveness? You won't get that type of response from any large conglomerate. I don't even want to mention small annoyances because at $9.95 they give you a lot and if I want everything, well, there's always the full Acrobat (at many times this cost).

Posted: 17-Mar-2005 03:12:22 AM