http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Discussion forum for doPDF users. en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:10:18 +0000 http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/ann-30-discount-for-novapdf-professional#post-4751 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:09:39 +0000 Softland 4751@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Now is your chance to buy novaPDF Professional with a 30% discount!<br /> The discount will be available starting today, Friday 25 Nov 2011 and until Monday 28 Nov 2011.</p> <p>In order to buy novaPDF with the applied discount, follow these steps:</p> <ul> <li>Visit the buy page at <a href="http://www.novapdf.com/en/buy-now.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.novapdf.com/en/buy-now.html</a></li> <li>After you decide the quantity you want to purchase, click on Buy Now</li> <li>On the order page that opens there is a Coupon Code field. Enter the following coupon and press Update: <strong>30-OFF</strong><br /> The discounted price will show up so you can finish the order to receive an email with your novaPDF registration.</li> </ul> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released#post-4744 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:09:01 +0000 Softland 4744@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>A new build is available, doPDF 7.2.376<br /> Fixes included in this build:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Fix</strong>: Skew font characters do not work well, the characters are rotated instead of skewed when printing CAD drawings (idw, ipt, spl).</li> <li><strong>Fix</strong>: Spooler crash when printing web pages (from a particular site) through Internet Explorer 9.</li> <li><strong>Fix</strong>: Fixed a problem where on x64 systems memory used by splwow64.exe increased with each print.</li> <li><strong>Fix</strong>: Conversion problem when printing transparent images with grayscale options on.</li> </ul> <p>You can download the new version from <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php">http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php</a> </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released#post-4646 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:26:51 +0000 Softland 4646@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>A new build is available, doPDF 7.2.373<br /> Fixes included in this build:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Fix</strong>: Characters with skew effect weren't converted correctly (rotated instead of skewed)</li> <li><strong>Fix</strong>: Corrected problem when converting files with long name</li> <li><strong>Fix</strong>: Corrected conversion from Visio when backgrounds were used</li> <li><strong>Fix</strong>: Corrected Terminal Services message</li> </ul> <p>You can download the new version from <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php">http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php</a></p> <p>Do you know you can help us promote doPDF with only one click? Simply visit <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf</a> and click on the +1 Google button or Facebook Like. Thank you! </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway/page/2#post-4639 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:26:58 +0000 Softland 4639@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Please read the first post of this topic to learn how you can get a free novaPDF Professional license with this promotion.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway/page/2#post-4638 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:22:35 +0000 lisa 4638@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Wowww... Its great can any one tell me how to get license ? </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway/page/2#post-4598 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:02:51 +0000 Softland 4598@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>As specified in the other reply for your separate post, please confirm if you want the license to be sent to the email address that you have filled in when you created the account on our forum.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway/page/2#post-4596 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:35:11 +0000 KindlebyAdele 4596@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Just Posted my video to YouTube and the added a Tutorial Discussion. I will be getting this out next week -- hoping to get the 50 views soon. Thanks for the opportunity to upgrade what was a great find. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4543 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:08:46 +0000 Softland 4543@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>@traboulism - that video was created by another user, he already received the license for novaPDF Professional. You have to create a video in order to participate, read the first post. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4541 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:48:31 +0000 traboulsim 4541@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I found that video worth:<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7oTaZAGteM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7oTaZAGteM</a><br /> Sincerely , Traboulsim </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4540 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:12:52 +0000 traboulsim 4540@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I wish to be granted the free License for novaPDF Professional </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4498 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:48:43 +0000 Softland 4498@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>@ tinysun The license has been sent.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4497 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:47:48 +0000 Softland 4497@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>@ tinysun Thank you for the video. The license will be sent shortly to the e-mail address from your account created on the doPDF forum. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4493 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:20:58 +0000 tinysun 4493@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://goo.gl/75oJh" rel="nofollow">http://goo.gl/75oJh</a></p> <p>I uploaded this video 2 weeks ago, it just reached 50 views.<br /> It shows converting djvu to pdf using doPDF and djvu viewer.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/dopdf-a-google-panda-recovery-case-study#post-4485 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:52:50 +0000 Softland 4485@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <h2>Short history</h2> doPDF is a freeware PDF converter and we know users like it, based on the regular feedback we receive. Since its first release it was downloaded more than 15 million times, with an average of 12-14.000 downloads daily (these are not unique downloads). With its popularity, we started getting more and more traffic from search engines too. Google in particular accounts for most of the search engine traffic, way ahead of Bing or Yahoo.<br /> <br /> Starting in February 2011, Google initiated a major algorithmic change, called Panda. This is the single most important algorithmic change they did in the past few years, and is something that impacted a lot of websites. A short changelog of Google Panda releases/updates:<br /> <br /> <ul> <li><strong>Panda 1.0</strong>. It was launched on February 24, 2011, an algorithmic change that targeted the so-called content farms (websites that create shallow content en-mass). This impacted about 12% of the queries in United States.</li> <li><strong>Panda 2.0</strong>. Launched on April 11, 2011, this change was rolled out globally impacting all English queries.</li> <li><strong>Panda 2.1</strong>. At the beginning of May 2011 the algorithm was updated again, this time impacting less queries.</li> <li><strong>Panda 2.2</strong>. This is the last update for the algorithm released so far, and happened at the end of June 2011.</li> <li><strong>Panda 2.3</strong>. Another Panda update, released around July 23, 2011.</li> </ul> <h2>Impact on doPDF</h2> We never worried that doPDF's website will be affected negatively by these changes, because we created all the content and it is obvious that we did so because basically we explain how the program works and what it does. So when Panda 1.0 was released we even noticed a small increase in the traffic Google sent our way and there were no signals that something is wrong. However, <strong>shortly after the second incremental algorithmic change, Panda 2.0, we've seen a huge impact on English queries</strong>. The website for doPDF is translated in over 37 languages, so we receive a lot of traffic for non-English queries too, not to mention referral and direct traffic. This is why initially we thought the decrease in overall traffic that Google sent was just seasonal, but after creating some country-specific advanced segments we noticed how hard the traffic was impacted.<br /> <br /> In order to dopdf the damage we created an Advanced Segment for each country from the top 20, that sent us traffic from Google search. These segments exclude brand searches, done for the name of our product (i.e. doPDF and do pdf). We've seen that most of the lost traffic was was for six countries: United States, United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada and Malaysia. Below are the graphics where you can see how much the traffic went down for visitors from these countries:<br /> <br /> <strong>US - Traffic went down, received only 30% compared to pre-Panda levels</strong>.<br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_us.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>UK - Same pattern, traffic down to 45% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_uk.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>India - One of the hardest it, traffic went down to only 23% of the previous traffic</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_india.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Australia - Traffic down, received 45% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_australia.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Canada - Traffic down, received 55% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_canada.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Malaysia - Traffic down, received 30% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_malaysia.gif" /><br /> <br /> <h2>What we changed</h2> Simultaneously we had traffic go down on 3 other websites, so we were hit from all the directions. We "counted our casualties" and made a plan with what needs to be changed. We went back to the guidelines provided by Google, trying to have user experience improvement in sight. Started implementing changes to the website in order to recover from this penalty, focusing mostly on removing content that might be considered low quality. These are a list of changes we did, not all at once but over a period of almost 3 months:<br /> <br /> <ul> <li><strong>Blocked content</strong>. We have a forum for doPDF, and most of the content we added to robots.txt was from the forum. We blocked the tags, profiles for each visitor, search result pages and other forum related pages (login, register, templates). Also we removed some pages from the website that were redundant (screenshots and languages pages) and rss files.</li> <li><strong>Checked website</strong>. We checked the website against 404 pages, redirects and re-created the sitemap (used XENU for this purpose, excellent tool).</li> <li><strong>Nofollow external links</strong>. We added nofollow to external links, and removed those that were not needed anymore.</li> <li><strong>Modified content</strong>. We changed the content of the pages in English.</li> <li><strong>Reduced load time</strong>. We introduced a caching system and reduce page load by optimizing images.</li> <li><strong>Reduced bounce rate</strong>. We were routing all downloads through a third party site that we own (www.software112.com), thus we constantly had a bounce rate close to 75%. Changed that so the download starts from our website, reducing the bounce rate to an average of less than 30%.</li> <li><strong>+1 button</strong>. Implemented the +1 button as soon as it was released and created a page where we specifically encourage users that use and like doPDF to recommend it to others <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf</a></li> <li><strong>Validating HTML</strong>. We validated the HTML code, but ironically broke it when we've added the plus one button. So I doubt this has any impact on rankings.</li> <li><strong>Webmaster tools errors</strong>. Checked and fixed the errors that were shown in Webmaster tools (crawl errors, duplicate title).</li> <li><strong>Blocked parameters</strong>. Webmaster tools has a section where you can provide which parameters to ignore. Since we were not happy with only that, we decided to block all the pages that had parameters in their url directly in the robots.txt file.</li> </ul> <br /> <h2>Recovering after Panda</h2> There are several factors frustrating about the Panda update:<br /> <ul> <li>you don't know exactly why you were hit (webmaster tools could add a section to help webmasters with that, at least the ones that are considered honest)</li> <li>any change you make takes a lot of time to show results</li> <li>if a section of your site is considered low quality, your entire site might suffer from the penalty (and Google has been recommending for ages to leave the duplicate content as the search engine will sort the bad from the good one - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMFYpYQZ0c&amp;t=30s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMFYpYQZ0c&amp;t=30s</a></li> </ul> However, after almost 3 months, doPDF started recovering its Google traffic for the countries that were most affected. This started shortly after Panda 2.2, and for several weeks now the trend is ascending. The graphs below are relevant and clearly show an increase in traffic:<br /> <br /> <strong>US - Traffic up, receiving 70-75% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_us.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>UK - Traffic up, receiving 75% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_uk.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>India - Traffic up, receiving 69% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_india.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Australia - Traffic up, receiving 90% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_australia.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Canada - Traffic up, receiving 75% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_canada.gif" /><br /> <br /> <strong>Malaysia - Traffic up, receiving 75% compared to pre-Panda</strong><br /> <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_malaysia.gif" /><br /> <br /> The traffic we receive now for these particular segments is not 100% the traffic we received previous to being hit by Panda, but it's over 75%. One of the reasons this happens might be the summer holidays, July and August have always been lower than usual in terms of traffic, so we'll know in September if the traffic gets back to the same levels as pre-Panda. One thing is for sure, it's good to finally have some positive feedback.<br /> <br /> As mentioned, we had other sites hit by Panda. Two of them are product sites too, just like doPDF's. Most of the changes we made for doPDF, did them on the other websites as well. However there's no sign of improvement. Only a few things are different in doPDF's case, and we suspect these might be exactly the changes that brought the website back on track:<br /> <ul> <li><strong>Reducing the bounce rate</strong>. Because previously we were linking outside of the website for downloading doPDF, the bounce rate was very high. After we changed that the bounce rate went down under 30%.</li> <li><strong>The +1 button</strong>. Since we incorporated the button, doPDF received several times more +1 clicks than our other websites. Maybe it hit a critical level where it is taken into account in rankings.</li> <li><strong>Scrapers</strong>. Everyone that posts something about doPDF, copies a phrase or even the entire content of the homepage from our site. We try to discourage that, but it's impossible to request them all to change the content. Google mentioned that one improvement in the latest update was scraper detection, meaning attributing unique content to the right source. However I strongly doubt that this last thing is what did it, and this is my proof. Matt Cutts is a Google employee and one of the most popular names when it comes to Google search engine updates. His blog is very popular and by mistake I discovered that his blog gets outranked by scrapers too. The image below shows exactly what I mean: <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/matt_cutts.gif" /> Basically if you do a search for "identity of GoogleGuy", his original blog post shows several places down after another website that basically reused its entire content from that blog post. This shows that there are still problems in attributing original content for Google.</li> </ul> <br /> We'll continue doing updates to the website, one thing we want to do in the near future is separate different types of content in subdomains. As mentioned initially we have our website translated in many other languages, however those are not different subdomains but are actually subfolders (i.e. /es/ is the website for the Spanish version of the site). We intend to split that in subdomains, as well as moving the forum in a subdomain too. As a conclusion to this post, I incline to believe that user experience and signals from users are much more important now and might help websites recover to pre-Panda levels. http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released#post-4477 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:56:12 +0000 Softland 4477@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>A new build is available, doPDF 7.2.369<br /> Fixes included in this build:</p> <ul> <li>Fix: Corrected a problem when printing from Internet Explorer 9 (would crash in certain situations during conversion)</li> <li>Fix: Tiff images printed from Adobe PageMaker were not converted correctly</li> <li>Fix: Corrected downsampling error for 8bpp images</li> <li>Fix: Corrected install on XP 32 bit when the x64 folder does not exist</li> </ul> <p>You can download the new version from <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php">http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php</a></p> <p>Do you know you can help us promote doPDF with only one click? Simply visit <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf</a> and click on the +1 Google button or Facebook Like. Thank you! </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4461 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:35:50 +0000 Softland 4461@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>There are still over 30 licenses left for this promotion, if you want to get a license for novaPDF Professional now it's the time. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4457 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:30:38 +0000 Softland 4457@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>@thegamekiller94 Thank you for your video.</p> <p>The license has been sent to the mail address you have used to create your account with us. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4456 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:12:06 +0000 thegamekiller94 4456@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>@ softland</p> <p>I have uploaded my video to youtube..This video introduces the newbies from installation to printing a document using doPDF..The URL is as follows:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFWJCVrsmS8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFWJCVrsmS8</a></p> <p>If you loved my video, please send me a license key of novaPDF professional on my email.I would be obliged.</p> <p>Thank you Softland,<br /> thegamekiller94 </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4453 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:52:39 +0000 Softland 4453@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>The license has been sent.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4447 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:01:28 +0000 Softland 4447@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>@hr.ene Please confirm that the email address where you want the license to be sent to is the one from your profile on our forum.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4443 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:54:18 +0000 hr.ene 4443@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I have edited my Video, and Uploaded it on Youtube,</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLWXOB70AWY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLWXOB70AWY</a></p> <p>Please send me a licence key for novaPDF.<br /> My Video is about how easy is to save files and online wabpage in pdf. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released#post-4405 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:39:31 +0000 Softland 4405@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ We've released a new build 7.2.365<br /> This build contains only 2 fixes/enhancements:<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>New: Added new predefined page sizes (for AutoCAD)</li> <li>Fix: Some customers reported that the Print Spooler hangs on client restart on 32 bit Windows 7 computers, that's fixed now</li> </ul> You can download the new version from <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php" target="_blank">http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php</a><br /> <br /> Do you know you can help us promote doPDF with only one click? Simply visit <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf</a> and click on the +1 Google button or Facebook Like. Thank you! http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4390 Mon, 23 May 2011 07:19:44 +0000 Softland 4390@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>@lectuce The license has been sent.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4389 Sun, 22 May 2011 13:10:15 +0000 lectuce 4389@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Thank you. Mail of me : <a href="mailto:aytien@yahoo.com">aytien@yahoo.com</a> </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4388 Fri, 20 May 2011 07:32:33 +0000 Softland 4388@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>@lectuce please confirm if the mail address you have used to create the account with us the the right one where we should send you the license.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4385 Thu, 19 May 2011 12:36:27 +0000 lectuce 4385@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Please count me. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4382 Wed, 18 May 2011 12:16:37 +0000 lectuce 4382@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>This is My video : <a href="http://youtu.be/IIvIFAxnb9w" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/IIvIFAxnb9w</a> </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4378 Tue, 17 May 2011 09:19:12 +0000 cmpm100 4378@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Thanks, I sent you an email. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4375 Tue, 17 May 2011 06:59:56 +0000 Softland 4375@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>The license has been sent. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4374 Mon, 16 May 2011 15:36:58 +0000 cmpm100 4374@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p><a href="mailto:cman04@live.com">cman04@live.com</a> </p>