DoPDF

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doPDF
DoPDF logo.svg
Developer(s) Softland
Stable release
11.4.287 / 11 April 2022;42 days ago (2022-04-11) [1]
Operating system Windows
Size 66.6 MB
Available in39 languages [2]
List of languages
English, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese Simplifed, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Type PDF generator
License Proprietary/Freeware [3]
Website www.dopdf.com

doPDF is a Portable Document Format (PDF) printer developed by Softland, that allows any program that can print to create a PDF file. The resolution of the created PDF files can be set manually or done automatically. [4] [5] doPDF is freeware which displays advertisements.

Contents

doPDF is the simplified version of Softland's commercial novaPDF, which offers additional features, including Advanced Encryption Standard, password protection, digital signing, URL links support, text/images watermark, the ability to choose PDF version, etc. [6]

Features

Softland's doPDF is a freeware application that is licensed for commercial and personal use. It supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, 2019, 2016, 2012 and 2008 R2. [7] Earlier versions up until version 9 also supported XP, Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2008 operating systems. [8]

The application allows custom resolution settings from 72 to 2400 dpi, and predefined and custom page sizes. PDFs created from text documents remain searchable in all languages. [7]

Older versions of doPDF do not use Ghostscript or .NET, and therefore is self-contained. They had a very small download file size, which was 1.73 MB in doPDF version 6.3.311 and 2.98 MB in version 7.0.321. More recent versions have expanded to over 60 MB. [9] Softland claims that doPDF in use "Barely uses any computer resources - compared to other free PDF converters, doPDF barely uses any memory or CPU resources when doing the actual conversion to PDF." [7]

According to their site:

Starting with version 8, doPDF requires .NET (v4) to be installed and works on the following operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1 (32 and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit), Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012, Windows 2008 Server (32 and 64-bit), Windows Vista (32 and 64-bit), Windows 2003 Server (32 and 64-bit), Windows XP SP3 (32-bit). [10]

Once installed doPDF is accessed by selecting the doPDF printer from the print menu or dialog of any Windows application that can print. The application then asks the user where to save the document, prints it as a PDF file and opens it in the user's default PDF viewer. [7]

Writing on Download.com, reviewer Seth Rosenblatt said of doPDF 6.2.301:

doPDF gives a simple output dialog box for altering the name and saving location of the PDF, and by clicking on Advanced Options, users can manually adjust the resolution of the PDF they're creating. However, unless you know precisely how resolution changes will affect the size of your PDF, this can be a bit tricky. doPDF is great for those not looking for a lot of a options, but for any project requiring a bit more finesse, it's worth looking at the competition. [4]

The company released version 7 of this application in early December 2009. This new updated version includes complete compatibility with Windows 7 as well as support for Type 1 fonts. Instead of embedding the full font file, doPDF 7 embeds only font subsets, making the resulting PDF file smaller. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "[Changelog] doPDF 11". forum.dopdf.com. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Softland. "Supported languages - doPDF". www.dopdf.com. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  3. ↑ Softland (September 2019). "doPDF End User License Agreement (PDF)" (PDF). Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  4. 1 2 Rosenblatt, Seth (February 2009). "Get basic print-to-PDF features" . Retrieved 4 June 2009.
  5. ↑ The Kim Komando Show (2009). "An easy way to do PDFs". Archived from the original on 12 April 2010. Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  6. ↑ "novaPDF - doPDF". www.dopdf.com.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Softland (2022). "doPDF Free PDF converter" . Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  8. ↑ "Previous Versions - doPDF". www.dopdf.com.
  9. ↑ "Previous Versions - doPDF". www.dopdf.com.
  10. ↑ "How to create PDF files with doPDF".
  11. ↑ Softland (December 2009). "doPDF version 7 is here". Archived from the original on 5 December 2009. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
  12. ↑ Betanews (November 2009). "doPDF 6.3.311" . Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  13. ↑ Pash, Adam (March 2007). "Download of the Day: doPDF (Windows)" . Retrieved 1 December 2009.
  14. ↑ Softpedia (November 2009). "doPDF 6.3 Build 311" . Retrieved 15 December 2009.


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