This page contains applications relating to document production and printing.
Open Office is an office suite that rivals Microsoft Office. It can open Office 2003 documents (in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Although it contains a database program it is not compatible with Access
You can also save documents in Microsoft Office formats. I have tried it with many professional documents and not had any issues.
A further feature is that you can safe documents directly in PDF format.
Foxit is a small program that works the same as Acrobat Reader but is tiny in comparison.
This program provides a means of creating PDF files by installing a PDF "printer". All you need to do is to print the document to the printer and a PDF document is created.
I have been getting annoyed by the sponsor pages on PDF995 so I explored alternatives. This seemed to be one of the bast. It produces similar size output files to PDF995.
It gives several alternative options for ourput as well as PDF. these include PNG and TIFF. it also alloows the proint quality to be selected as well as more advanced options such as water4mark, background or foreground overlays etc.
This program provides a means of creating PDF files by installing a PDF "printer". All you need to do is to print the document to the printer and a PDF document is created.
Link goes to a documentation page which then gives links to pages containing download instructions for various platforms.
PDF995 is a free PDF "printer" program. I use it now in preference to the Free PDF generator as it installs easier and has more features. In particular I wanted to be able to be able to merge two documents together to be able to produce invoices on company letter headed paper.
The following is a quotation from their web site.
Tomahawk PDF+ gives you a complete PDF file creation suite right on your computer. Tomahawk can also be used as an advanced editor for rtf, txt, tmd (our own format) and other file formats.