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# 15 October 2008 at 5:13 pm

Karl De Abrew said:
Go2PDF appears to leave a watermark on the bottom of each page — has anyone else encountered this?
# 21 October 2008 at 5:59 am

Rowan Hanna (author) said:
Yes, I just encountered the watermark too. I’ve removed Go2PDF from the list.
Does anyone know of any more 100% free PDF creators out there?
# 21 October 2008 at 9:05 am

ann said:
Hi, I’d like to ask if any of you knows about any massive doc to pdf converter. I have a huge group of docs file at work and I need to convert every single one to pdf.
Thanks a lot.
# 22 October 2008 at 8:18 am

Karl De Abrew said:
Sure — I’d say that there’s a few utilities you can use for this — but this will work for starters.
Install the Bullzip printer – http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php, then:
1. Goto Program Files, Bullzip, PDF Printer, Options application.
2. In the general tab — change the location of the path/filenames as you wish.
3. Enable the remember last folder option
4. Select No in the Show Document group box.
5. In the dialogs tab, change the settings – dialog option to Never.
6. Explore the other options and set as you feel necessary.
7. Goto your printer list within the control panel. Set the Bullzip printer as the default.
8. Open an explorer window containing all of the files you wish to convert.
9. Right-click on one file and make sure that the file prints to the Bullprint printer.
10. If not, then double-check that Word is closed and try again.
11. If correct, then right click on the entire batch, and choose File, Print.
Bullprint will iterate through the list and convert each file, dropping the output in the specified folder.
Note: I am sure that other applications here in our list will also do this — Bullprint is the app that I’m immediately familiar with as I have been doing detailed research across all free PDF creators.
Anyone else have any suggestions?
# 22 October 2008 at 9:03 am
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# 26 October 2008 at 8:15 am
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# 5 November 2008 at 3:11 am

Tommy.Tse said:
Dear All,
Is it possbile to convent jpg file into pdf file on batch? I try bullzip but it seems it cannot make it.
Tommy
# 18 November 2008 at 3:54 am

Karl De Abrew said:
Yep — no problems. I’m presuming you mean Windows, but you could get this to work on most platforms (Mac, Windows, Unix).
Use ImageMagick — http://www.imagemagick.org/ (it’s free)
The guys at “Of Zen and Computing” have a pretty simple example for converting jpg to png:
http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/zanswers/1016
You’ll need to write this (or something very similar) ->
mogrify -format jpg *.pdf
Note: it’s from a command prompt. Hope this helps…
# 18 November 2008 at 6:07 pm
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# 18 January 2009 at 7:50 pm

Biju Ayyappan said:
The free version of PDF995 Printer Driver have popup ads of their sponsors. To avoid popups one may have to go the paid version.
# 23 January 2009 at 4:33 am

Karl De Abrew said:
Yes, this is true — however, our criteria is centered around whether the PDF files themselves end up with watermarks. But you are correct, the PDF995 pop-up ads can be quite irritating, even though the product is free.
# 25 January 2009 at 11:36 am

Martin Gifford said:
Thanks for this list.
Do any of these programs allow you to highlight text in a PDF and then save it? That’s all I need to do.
As a student I have heaps of PDF documents to read, and it would be great if I could highlight text in PDFs and resave them for future reference.
# 8 February 2009 at 1:04 am

Adrian Morse said:
Martin,
No, none of these programs allow you to do this and I doubt that you will find this functionality in any freeware tool.
An Acrobat Professional user can “enable a PDF for commenting”. Such a PDF can then be marked up for free by anyone using Adobe Reader. You might be lucky and find some of the PDFs you have obtained have already been enabled for commenting, but this is unlikely.
The professional versions of other PDF tools, e.g. Cute PDF, also offer the ability to add markup to PDFs. This might be your best bet.
Adrian
# 18 February 2009 at 11:31 am
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# 17 March 2009 at 4:14 am

Kai Steuernagel said:
what about FreePDF XP. It uses Ghostscript. Only issue. website only in German. http://www.shbox.de
# 8 April 2009 at 3:21 am

Jim said:
Just happened by this evening, noted primopdf reference but cannot access their server (ie, Firefox 3.0.8 reports their server cannot be located). Something recent or just middle-of-the-night jitters?
# 19 April 2009 at 11:04 pm
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# 22 May 2009 at 7:39 am
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# 23 May 2009 at 9:47 pm

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