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FreePDF ist ein kostenloser Aufsatz für das Open-Source-Tool Ghostscript, das PostScript- in PDF-Code umwandelt. Mit den hochwertigen PDFs, die diese Kombi hervorbringt, muss man sich auch in der Druckerei nicht schämen: Transparenzen und feine Farbverläufe beherrscht sie ebenso wie Schriften aus dem OpenType- und Type-1-Lager. FreePDF punktet mit der Möglichkeit, sowohl vor als auch nach der PDF-Erstellung Skripte auszuführen.

Der flexible Druckertreiber bietet einen komfortablen "Nutzen" und Broschürendruck. Der arg kryptische Einstellungen-Dialog vermittelt allerdings das Gefühl, sich in einer bedienkomfortfreien Zone zu bewegen; das Konfigurieren erfordert zudem Administratorrechte.

Freeware

http://freepdfxp.de/index_de.html

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Ghostscript erstellt PostScript- sowie PDF-Dateien und bereitet diese für Bildschirmansicht und Druck auf. Auch eine Konvertierung von PostScript-Dateien in PDF-Dokumente und gängige Bildformate ist mit dem Tool möglich. Die etwas umständliche Bedienung per Kommandozeile lässt sich mit grafischen Bedienoberlächen wie GSView oder GhostView umgehen. Ghostscript harmoniert prima mit FreePDF XP zum kostenlosen Erstellen von PDF-Dokumenten.

Freeware

Whats new: >>

Highlights in this release include:

    pdfwrite now uses the same color management engine as Ghostscript rendering devices (by default LCMS2). This provides much better control over color conversion and color management generally, but will result in some small color differences when compared to the old system.

    It is no longer necessary to specify UseCIEColor (and we very much encourage you not to do this) or the ProcessColorModel if you want to convert a PDF file to a specific color space, simply set the ColorConverionStrategy appropriately.

    We do not expect any major problems to arise with this new code, but for the duration of this release a new switch -dPDFUseOldCMS is available which will restore the old color management. See: Color Conversion and Management

    Please note that due to constraints of the PDF/A-1 specification, the new color management does not yet apply when producing PDF/A files.

    A new device 'eps2write' has been added which allows for the creation of EPS files using the ps2write device instead of the old (deprecated and removed) pswrite device. This produces considerably better quality EPS files than the old epswrite device which is now also deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

    ps2write now has a feature to allow customisation of the output for specific devices. Please see PSDocOptions and PSPageOptions described in ps2ps2.htm Additional Distiller Params

    Ghostscript now reduces memory usage when processing PDF files that use transparency and output is to display devices such as Windows display or x11 (i.e. devices that are strictly full framebuffer devices), and to high level vector devices that cannot reproduce the PDF transparency model, such as the ps2write device or pdfwrite when 'flattening' to PDF 1.3 or earlier (-dCompatibilityLevel=1.3). This uses banding (clist) files to render the transparenct areas in bands to reduce memory use, and unlike the existing page level banding, this is hidden from the target device.

    Ghostscript can now collect information for pages in temp files (in Ghostscript's clist format), then render and output pages for the job in arbitrary order, including normal, reverse, odd, even, or any order or subset of the pages. This is controlled with the --saved-page=___ option. (Note that this only applies to rendering devices, and not high level devices such as pdfwrite and ps2write.) See: Deferred Page Rendering

    The Ghostscript device architecture has been extended so that, when rendering bands into multiple threads, it is now possible to perform post-processing in multiple threads, such as downscale, post-render halftoning, or compression. Previously, post processing was only possible in the single main thread. This can improve performance significantly.

    Plus the usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.

http://ghostscript.com/

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doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files. doPDF is a free PDF converter, it is not a PDF viewer. To view PDF files you will need the free Adobe Reader.

doPDF installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

Licence: Freeware

Whats new: >>

Corrected install on Windows XP Embedded
Corrected GUI crash on Windows XP
The PDF creation date now takes into account daylight saving time changes
Added version information in list of programs
Type1 fonts are embedded only on request
Display corrections for the About window ( on Windows 8 )

http://www.dopdf.com/

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Einfacher PDF-Drucker zum Erstellen von PDF-Dokumenten via Druckbefehl, unter anderem mit optionaler 128-Bit-Passwort-Verschlüsselung

kostenlos

New: Two encryption related Doro.ini options added

http://thesz.diecru.eu/content/doro.php

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Erzeugt mehrseitige PDF-Dokumente direkt beim Scannen; unterstützt handelsübliche TWAIN oder WIA kompatible Einzugs- oder Flachbettscanner; bietet Farbmarker, Bilddrehung und nachträgliches Umsortieren.

Freeware

Was ist neu

Verbesserte Texterkennung
Deutsch / Englisch
Scanner Kontrast auch in der Privat Version
Als Bild speichern auch in der Privat Version
Bis zu 3 Seite OCR in der Privat Version
Mail nur in der Kaufversion

http://www.horland.de/scan2pdf.html

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Whats new:>>

Windows 98 compatibility issue fixed

http://thesz.diecru.eu/content/doro.php

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SepPDF is a tiny PDF file splitter with drag-and-drop support.

License: Freeware

What's new: >>

Improved command line reading part.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/foresth/home/indexe.htm

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ORPALIS PDF Reducer is a powerful PDF compression Software for end users and developers meant to help anyone to get existing PDF files reduced up to 80% more than concurrent products.

To achieve that, ORPALIS PDF Reducer provides different innovative and highly sophisticated size-reducing techniques which can be optionally applied by user selection.

Features:

Content segmentation to increase compression ratio.
Automatically applies the most effective compression scheme based on data type.
Serialization of several compression algorithms.
Uses innovative automatic color detection mechanism.
Page layout analysis.
Embedded raster images re-sampling.
Embedded raster images re-compression.
Unused objects removing.
Remove unwanted specific objects such as annotations, bookmarks, formfields, embedded files...

Freeware

Whats new: >>

Improved compression ratio.
Improved PDF parsing speed.
Improved malformed PDF content recovery algorithms.

http://www.orpalis.com/

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doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files. doPDF is a free PDF converter, it is not a PDF viewer. To view PDF files you will need the free Adobe Reader.

doPDF installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

Licence: Freeware

Whats new: >>

New: New predefined forms, 50 different formats are now available (A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, B4/5, Letter, Legal, Executive, Envelope DL/C5/B5/Monarch/#10, ANSI, ARCH, ...)
New: Driver certification for Windows 8
New: Automatic updates with changelog notifications
Update: Fully redesigned installer (more simple)
Fix: Several bug fixes

http://www.dopdf.com/

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PDFCreator ist ein kostenloses Programm, mit dem sich Dokumente eines jeden Windows-Programms als PDF-Datei speichern lassen. Es wird dazu als Drucker in das System eingebunden und erlaubt so die Ausgabe in eine PDF-Datei.

Die Qualität der erstellten Dokumente ist dabei ähnlich hoch wie bei den Produkten von Adobe. Zum weiteren Funktionsumfang von PDFCreator gehört eine 128-Bit-Verschlüsselung, die die Dateien vor unerwünschten Zugriffen schützt. Auch eine Bündelung mehrerer Dokumente zu einer PDF-Datei ist möglich.

Licence: Open Source

Whats new: >>

    Improvements:

Implemented support for the new PDF Architect 2.
Improved detection of printable files.
Updated help files
Updated translations

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a problem when updating from versions

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

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Erzeugt mehrseitige PDF-Dokumente direkt beim Scannen; unterstützt handelsübliche TWAIN oder WIA kompatible Einzugs- oder Flachbettscanner; bietet Farbmarker, Bilddrehung und nachträgliches Umsortieren.

Freeware

Was ist neu

Fixed Memory Bug
Hohe Stabilität auch bei über 100 Seiten Farbscan
Rückgängig Funktion in der Bildbearbeitung
Nachschärfen
Neues Gradationskurven Werkzeug
Neue Weißpunkt Pipette
Mail für alle
Die Bildbearbeitung ist in der Freeware limitiert worden
Bessere Schrifterkennung mit Autoscaling
Extrem exakte neue automatische Seitenausrichtung

http://www.horland.de/scan2pdf.html

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Whats new: >>

- Merge and rearrange print jobs again
- Converting a large document to an image format will now create file names in a sortable way (i.e. Doc001.jpg to Doc100.jpg)
- Allowing to skip the printing dialog a directly go to the save file dialog
- We have moved most Windows from the "old" Windows Forms technology to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which allows scalability on systems with other screen resolutions and better testing of UI components. The two settings dialogs will be converted
- The COM interface is back in a very basic version. This will grow over the time. For now, the interface will change in future versions. Once it has stabilized, we will introduce proper COM versioning

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

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Whats new: >>

New: Add-ins for Microsoft Office that allow one-click PDF conversion from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Publisher
New: Bookmarks from Microsoft Word are recognized and converted to PDF bookmarks (only when using the add-in)
New: Hidden links in Microsoft Office documents are recognized and converted to active links in the PDF file (only when using the add-in)
New: Modified installer to show add-in installation as an optional step
Fix: Installer failed if Windows username had two names
Fix: Check for updates was verifying daily even if it was set to weekly
Fix: Version history was showing changes for previous build numbers (older than current build)
Fix: Corrected requirement information and added help sections for the add-in conversion in the help file

http://www.dopdf.com/

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Scan2PDF helps you scan paper documents directly into PDF files. It has a non-interactive option so that you can bypass the scanner driver interface during scanning. In addition, you can change the order of scanned images, as well as rotate and delete them.

License:    Freeware

http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=82

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UnityPDF is an efficient and easy to use piece of software whose main purpose is to provide you with the ability to fully manipulate your PDF documents.

The program lets you merge, split (one page per file), divide (by file size or number of pages), extract or insert a range of pages, protect and set permissions, view and clear metadata of PDF files.

NOTE: Free for non commercial use only.

http://www.unitypdf.com/index