novaPDF Lite

novaPDF Lite is installed as a printer driver. Printing a document to this printer would create a PDF version of the same document.

Pros: novaPDF Lite is installed as a printer driver on PCs and are compatible with Windows 2000/XP/ 2003 server machines and have a small footprint. A large range of documents can easily be converted through the application. Conversion simply requires the document to be opened in the corresponding program and printed through the novaPDF driver. Besides MS office documents like Word, Excel and Power point documents a range of others such as; AutoCad drawings, company’s reports, contracts, workflows, agreements, marketing plans, forms, products list, price list, charts, emails or web pages can be converted. Documents thus created then can viewed by acrobat readers available freely.

Documents created via novaPDF lite can be personalized by using the document information settings. These include title, subject, author and keywords that make it easy to find the document, if published on the web.

novaPDF Lite has a lot of features that lets users to modify the paper size, or create new custom page sizes for large format printing, modify the resolution (from 72 to 2400 dpi), change page orientation (portrait, landscape), fonts embedding (support for OpenType and TrueType) and so on.

The user interface can be localized to support 17 odd languages that include European, Latin American and Chinese languages.

Cons: Nothing adverse noticed.

Overall: Works very simply, works well like any other Windows printer driver. Overall it is a 5 star application.

Using novaPDF Lite you can easily create high quality searchable PDF files in an affordable and reliable way from any Windows application. It installs as a printer driver and helps you generate the PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application (you can convert your Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, AutoCad drawings, company’s reports, contracts, workflows, agreements, marketing plans, forms, products list, price list, charts, emails or web pages). Its purpose is to enable users to easily exchange electronic documents, independently of the application in which they were initially created. The resulted PDF files can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer (reader) installed.
This PDF printer driver is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server and requires approximately 10MB of free disk space for the installation. It doesn’t require third party tools to be installed in order to generate the pdf file (like Adobe Acrobat or GhostScript).
You can personalize your documents by setting the document information (title, subject, author, keywords). This feature is useful also if you want to publish your PDF files on the Web, as search engines will index your pdf files and use the document information to display it in the results.
novaPDF Lite has a lot of features that allows you to: modify the paper size (or create new custom page sizes for large format printing), modify the resolution (from 72 to 2400 dpi), change page orientation (portrait, landscape), fonts embedding (support for OpenType and TrueType) and lots more. The user interface supports localization, thus using novaPDF Lite in your own language (currently English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Swedish, Portuguese, Brazilian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Chinese Simplified and Russian are supported).
Get the latest version of novaPDF Lite from http://www.novapdf.com