John M. – Thanks for a genuinely useful program which meets the real needs of real people in the real world. Of course we have the full version of Acrobat 7 and use its facilities extensively, but 99% of our pdf files are produced with pdfFactory Pro. The way it concatenates a whole series of separate documents into one pdf file is particularly neat and proves much more reliable than importing separate pdf files into Acrobat which sometimes produces unexpected problems.
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Chris R. – I cannot tell you how long I have searched for a product that offers me the capabilities to intercept print output and perform any sort of post processing on it. Moreover, I also desired so many countless times to have an easy way to direct print output to an image file. As a developer, I have even entertained the notion of writing something myself but just never has had the time. But after I happened upon FinePrint today, I soon discovered a product bursting with more capabilities than I could ever have asked for.
And that’s just FinePrint! After finding FinePrint, I gave pdfFactory a test run as well and again fell head over heals. In the case of pdfFactory, you have made a solution that surpasses that of Adobe itself. Just last year I worked on a project that needed to print reports out to a PDF file. The solution that Adobe provided involved their PDF Distiller and its SDK and proved to be horribly error prone and clunky when run in a high volume automated reporting process. Had I known of pdfFactory then, I can only image the things I could have done!
Now, I am not the sort to spend his valuable time sending many emails, but I was truly so very impressed with your fine products that I was compelled to send you a quick note of praise. Though there is just so much moderately useful junk software out there, it makes me glad to once in a while find something that is so well conceived and constructed as the products that you have created.
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Mark T. – Here’s a little saga for you to exercise your schadenfreude on. I needed to create pdf files, so I bought Acrobat on eBay. But, it was a scammer, and I was out $120! Then I bought the real Acrobat and it SUCKED – huge PDF files, slurs didn’t come out right, etc.
Then I bought pdfFactory and it was like the clouds parted and angels played trumpets to serenade fairies dancing on red and white mushrooms. I even went back and deleted most of the huge scores I had created with acrobat distiller and replaced them with pdfFactory versions. Thanks a lot for making pdfFactory.
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Zaine R. – Just wanted to write and thank you for offering the sale price for both FinePrint and pdfFactory Pro. I purchased both today and could not be happier. The regular prices were just out of my price range, but I’m truly impressed with how solid both apps are, and with their very well-though-out user interface. You have implemented some brilliant ideas in both FinePrint and pdf Factory Pro. I appreciate that they’re both integrated with one another to a large extent.
We all know the benefits of PDF, and FinePrint has taken that several steps further than Adobe with pdfFactory Pro. I’m in academia and make frequent speeches and presentations before groups, and FinePrint saves me money by not having to print so much, but when I do, its layout is attractive, readable, and able to be copied.
PS: It’s truly great you keep an open line to your users’ wishes and share your environmental concern with donations from profits. That’s a nice touch and sets a good example to save as many trees as possible.
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Patrick R. – Also, I wanted to say I love your application. It’s great. I embed a lot of Visio graphics into Word docs and pdfFactory Pro does an outstanding job with handling that. My docs turn out much better with pdfFactory than they ever did with Acrobat, and the conversion is quicker too. Keep up the good work. You have a customer for life!
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Ed P. – I originally was just interested in pdfFactory for some of my web design projects, but got Fine Print as part of a special bundle promotion you were running at the time. I am glad I did!
Up until last week I used FinePrint for spooling and printing software documentation and programming articles. Last week, thanks to our copy machine breaking down (again!) I was forced into a tight spot and had to get really creative really fast!
That’s where FinePrint came into play.
I print price tags to match our advertisements and use one program to print the graphic and a separate program to print the pricing. Thanks to FinePrint’s Form function I am able to set the graphic as a form, then send the pricing info from my product database and print my tags in one easy step. In a nutshell FinePrint has made a previously tedious job faster, easier, and more cost effective for our company!
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Mike C. – A quick note on pdfFactory:
Bought it, installed it and compared it to Adobe 6.0 Professional. Bottom line:
- pdfFactory’s Word interface is faster and less intrusive than Adobe 6.0 Pro’s.
- pdfFactory’s file output size is approximately half as large as Adobe 6.0’s – a very significant and important advantage.
- pdfFactory’s interface is more intuitive and its documentation is simpler to access and use than 6.0’s.
pdfFactory is significantly less expensive.
Thanks for a truly wonderful product at a value-oriented price.
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Isabelle F. – I was so impressed by FinePrint I must tell you! I am unsuccessfully looking for such a software since I began working in 1995. I can finally print previews of promotional stuff and double-sided copies on my cheap desktop inkjet printer.
One of my customers was also finally able to fax quotations using Winfax to their customers directly from their Unix-based accounting software. Let me explain : their PC run Windows and we connect to the Unix server by a terminal emulator. We installed FinePrint on the salesman computer and shared the FinePrint “printer”. Then we printed from the Unix-based software on the FinePrint “printer”. We added a form using FinePrint (to replace the paper form), and choose Winfax “printer”. Works just fine. That’s it!!! The Unix-based software publisher had asked 2000$ to our customer to develop this… They’re so happy. And I explained they could even e-mail quotations if they get PDF factory. I will certainly recommend your products to all my customers & friends.
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Seranata – With regard to the size of the Acrobat file, bear in mind this Word doc included a graphic in the header, and what seems like half a zillion clickable links to those gurus who contributed to the book (Joyner, Ken Evoy, etc.,) and other fun and varied stuff …
So I tried going from cover to page 40, and it was over 17 MEG! And I was playing with a beta of Acrobat 6, passed it around, and the very best we could come up with was 6.8 meg and the quality was so bad, it wasn’t usable.
It was just a nightmare. They were trying to find ways to get the size down, because there is an army lined up to push the book, and I can’t deliver the goods to make it work!
pdfFactory was just next in line as I was downloading and trying any pdf tool that had a way for me to sample it. I opened the Word doc, ran pdfFactory, watched it just speed right along like there was nothing there with my mouth hanging open, afraid to even look…and voila!
There it was, the best looking pdf file I’d made yet, and this is after doing a couple hundred ebooks in pdf format! The size was 1mb. I was floored.
I said, “this is too good to be true, I won’t be able to add the internal stuff in Acrobat”. I opened it in Acrobat and then started to add the TOC, the inner links, etc., and they worked beautifully. When I could breathe again, I rushed to the site to buy the thing. I recognize a GREAT piece of software when I see it. I was just overjoyed to get it.
This is rendering the most comprehensive e-book I’ve done to date, and it is just awesome! You literally saved my bacon, and since we’ve got people eager to get their hands and sell this ebook, I can produce something they can sell.
Thanks again. pdfFactory is far and away the best.
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Ron B. – I have been a FinePrint user for many years now. I don’t even remember when or how I first found out about this great print utility but it is one of the best software programs I have found. Having written and supported PC based programs myself, I am aware of the difficulties in keeping PC software current with regards to Windows versions and system devices. I have used FinePrint through the years as I have moved up from Windows 98 through Windows ME all the way to Windows XP and have NEVER had a failure with FinePrint. It works with every printer I’ve every had and every application I have ever used – it certainly enhances the value of my other software investments. Even today I find new and innovate uses for the superb features it provides such as the Form Factory and Stationary function. It does so much more than simply save me paper and ink, although the value of that alone is worth it’s unbelievable low cost.