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doPDF Forum: Forum: Announcements - Recent Topics http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Discussion forum for doPDF users. en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:08:54 +0000 Softland on "[Ann] 30% discount for novaPDF Professional" 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/ Now is your chance to buy novaPDF Professional with a 30% discount! The discount will be available starting today, Friday 25 Nov 2011 and until Monday 28 Nov 2011. In order to buy novaPDF with the applied discount, follow these steps: <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: 30-OFF The discounted price will show up so you can finish the order to receive an email with your novaPDF registration.</li> </ul> Softland on "[Major update] doPDF 7.2.353 released" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released#post-3985 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:44:45 +0000 Softland 3985@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ A new major version was released, doPDF 7.2 build 353. It contains one important feature, now on the Save As dialog you will be able to select between a "Small file" and a "High quality images" filter. Each of these filters uses basically a different compression engine for the documents: <ul> <li>Normal ZIP compression for the High quality images filter</li> <li>High JPEG compression for the Small file filter</li> </ul> By default the "Small file" filter will be selected, but if you're not happy with the quality of the images in the resulting PDF, then you should use the other filter (which increases the size of the resulting PDF). You can download the new version from our main mirror <a href="http://www.software112.com/products/dopdf-free-pdf-converter+quick-download.html">http://www.software112.com/products/dopdf-free-pdf-converter+quick-download.html</a> (even if the text still shows 7.1 in there, it's actually version 7.2 but it takes a while to propagate). Softland on "50 Licenses for novaPDF Professional - Giveaway" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/50-licenses-for-novapdf-professional-giveaway#post-4082 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:18:17 +0000 Softland 4082@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Do you like doPDF? If you do, you'll love novaPDF Professional, here's a quick comparison between doPDF and novaPDF - <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/compare/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/compare/</a> (it includes a 20% discount) We are organizing a giveaway, where 50 licenses for novaPDF Professional (total value of $2500) will be given to 50 users. All you have to do is create a video tutorial about doPDF and upload it to Youtube - there is no drawing so as long as there are licenses left from those 50, you will receive one too. Here are the details of the giveaway: <ul> <li>Create a video tutorial about doPDF and upload it to YouTube (video must be at least 50 seconds in length)</li> <li>Share it with other people by posting a link to it on the forum in the Tutorials section - so that we can feature it on doPDF's YouTube channel at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/dopdfs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/dopdfs</a></li> <li>When your video reaches 50 views add a reply here requesting your key and we'll send it to you. It's that simple! (one license per user)</li> </ul> The video tutorial can be about anything that's related to using doPDF (i.e How to convert word to PDF, excel to PDF, PowerPoint to PDF, ...), and has to either contain audio or captions, so that someone viewing it can understand it. Softland on "doPDF - A Google Panda recovery case study" 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. 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: <ul> <li>Panda 1.0. 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>Panda 2.0. Launched on April 11, 2011, this change was rolled out globally impacting all English queries.</li> <li>Panda 2.1. At the beginning of May 2011 the algorithm was updated again, this time impacting less queries.</li> <li>Panda 2.2. This is the last update for the algorithm released so far, and happened at the end of June 2011.</li> <li>Panda 2.3. 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, shortly after the second incremental algorithmic change, Panda 2.0, we've seen a huge impact on English queries. 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. 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: US - Traffic went down, received only 30% compared to pre-Panda levels. <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_us.gif" /> UK - Same pattern, traffic down to 45% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_uk.gif" /> India - One of the hardest it, traffic went down to only 23% of the previous traffic <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_india.gif" /> Australia - Traffic down, received 45% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_australia.gif" /> Canada - Traffic down, received 55% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_canada.gif" /> Malaysia - Traffic down, received 30% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandahit_malaysia.gif" /> <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: <ul> <li>Blocked content. 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>Checked website. We checked the website against 404 pages, redirects and re-created the sitemap (used XENU for this purpose, excellent tool).</li> <li>Nofollow external links. We added nofollow to external links, and removed those that were not needed anymore.</li> <li>Modified content. We changed the content of the pages in English.</li> <li>Reduced load time. We introduced a caching system and reduce page load by optimizing images.</li> <li>Reduced bounce rate. 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>+1 button. 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>Validating HTML. 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>Webmaster tools errors. Checked and fixed the errors that were shown in Webmaster tools (crawl errors, duplicate title).</li> <li>Blocked parameters. 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> <h2>Recovering after Panda</h2> There are several factors frustrating about the Panda update: <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&t=30s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMFYpYQZ0c&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: US - Traffic up, receiving 70-75% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_us.gif" /> UK - Traffic up, receiving 75% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_uk.gif" /> India - Traffic up, receiving 69% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_india.gif" /> Australia - Traffic up, receiving 90% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_australia.gif" /> Canada - Traffic up, receiving 75% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_canada.gif" /> Malaysia - Traffic up, receiving 75% compared to pre-Panda <img border="1" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/google/pandarec_malaysia.gif" /> 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. 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: <ul> <li>Reducing the bounce rate. 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>The +1 button. 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>Scrapers. 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> 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. Softland on "[Mention] doPDF, hottest app on Tom's Hardware" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/mention-dopdf-hottest-app-on-toms-hardware#post-4249 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:36:37 +0000 Softland 4249@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ doPDF was one of "The Hottest Apps of 2011 (Week 10)" mentioned in Tom's Hardware, one of the most reputable sources for information on hardware and new technology (if you ever researched reviews for CPU/motherboards/graphic cards or other computer components, for sure you've visited this site too, as it has some of the most comprehensive reviews). You can read the article by visiting <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/news/top-apps-top-downloads-mozilla-firefox-capture-fox,12348.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tomshardware.com/news/top-apps-top-downloads-mozilla-firefox-capture-fox,12348.html</a> Softland on "[Ann] novaPDF Professional part of a charity bundle" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/ann-novapdf-professional-part-of-a-charity-bundle#post-4120 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:37:01 +0000 Softland 4120@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ The guys behind MakeUseOf with a little help from TheDailyBuggle had a great idea to create a charity Windows app bundle. The bundle includes 9 great applications, novaPDF Professional being one of them, and it has a price of $49.95 (instead of around $300 as it would be if buying the programs individually). There is a $10 limited discount (and a 10% off discount in case the other one expires), you can get the details about this at <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/9-apps-price-1-bundlelytic-charity-bundle-giveaway/" rel="nofollow">http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/9-apps-price-1-bundlelytic-charity-bundle-giveaway/</a> or on <a href="http://bundlelytic.com/" rel="nofollow">http://bundlelytic.com/</a> <a href="http://bundlelytic.com/"><img src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/bundlelytic.png" alt="Bundlelytic" /></a> If you purchase this bundle, not only you get the applications but also you donate to those affected by the floods in Australia ("50% of the proceeds from this bundle will be donated to the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal, a fund for those affected by the overwhelming floods in Queensland, Australia.") As a bonus, if you purchase this bundle you'll be entered automatically in a drawing for a free 250 GB ioSafe Rugged Portable bulletproof hard drive (revealed only recently in CES ’11). Softland on "[Translation] doPDF.com available in Czech" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-available-in-czech#post-4019 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:33:26 +0000 Softland 4019@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ ITART helped us by translating the website into the Czech language, you can see it at <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/cs/">dopdf.com/cs/</a>. If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting the <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a> page to see what languages we're missing (fewer and fewer). Softland on "[Translation] doPDF.com available in Greek and Bulgarian" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-available-in-greek-and-bulgarian#post-3990 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:21:08 +0000 Softland 3990@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ We've added two new translations for the website, Bulgarian (translated by Kamen Lichev) and Greek (translated by Kiriaki Spanou). You can see them at <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/bg/">dopdf.com/bg/</a> and <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/el/">dopdf.com/el/</a> If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting the <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a> page to see what languages we're missing. Softland on "[Major update] doPDF 7.1.325 released" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-71325-released#post-1189 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:34:54 +0000 Softland 1189@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ doPDF 7.1 build 325 was released. It contains one important feature, that of supporting silent installation (and other command line parameters for the installation). What's changed in doPDF 7.1.325: <ul> <li>New: doPDF can now be installed silently (list of parameters supported is in the help file)</li> <li>Fix: Corrected duplicated fonts problem (virtual memory)</li> <li>Fix: Solved a problem when printing images from Adobe Viewer</li> <li>Fix: Registry handle leak</li> </ul> You can download the new version here: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/download.php">doPDF 7.1.325</a> Softland on "[Translation] doPDF.com now available in Nepali language" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-now-available-in-nepali-language#post-3942 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:14:52 +0000 Softland 3942@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Tejendra Baruwal helped us by translating the website into Nepali, you can see it at <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/ne/">dopdf.com/ne/</a>. If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting the <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a> page to see what languages we're missing. Softland on "[Translation] doPDF.com is now available in Japanese" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-is-now-available-in-japanese#post-3863 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:00:06 +0000 Softland 3863@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Yoshida helped us translate the dopdf.com website in Japanese, you can see it at <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/ja/">dopdf.com/ja/</a> - domo arigato Yoshida! If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting the <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a> page to see what languages we're missing. Softland on "[Translation] doPDF.com now in Hindi" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-now-in-hindi#post-3838 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:38:54 +0000 Softland 3838@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Thanks to Subodh Jangid we have the dopdf.com website available in Hindi too, the 32nd language in which it is translated: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/hi/">dopdf.com/hi/</a> If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting this page: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a>. You'll see there in which languages doPDF is not translated, and if you want to help you'll simply have to email us and we'll reply with details. Practically the website has about around 1200 words that need to be translated. Softland on "[Translation] doPDF.com now available in Swedish" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-now-available-in-swedish#post-3837 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:57:21 +0000 Softland 3837@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Thanks to Anton Altgård we have the dopdf.com website available in Swedish too: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/sv/">dopdf.com/sv/</a> If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting this page: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a>. You'll see there in which languages doPDF is not translated, and if you want to help you'll simply have to email us and we'll reply with details. Practically the website has about around 1200 words that need to be translated. Softland on "[Translation] doPDF website now available in Arabic" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdf-website-now-available-in-arabic#post-3817 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:35:21 +0000 Softland 3817@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Thanks to Omar Kamal from <a href="http://www.perfect-translators.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.perfect-translators.com/</a> we have the dopdf.com website available in Arabic too: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/ar-sa/">dopdf.com/ar-sa/</a> - the first right-to-left language doPDF is available in. If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting this page: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a>. You'll see there in which languages doPDF is not translated, and if you want to help you'll simply have to email us and we'll reply with details. Practically the website has about around 1200 words that need to be translated. Softland on "[Translation] dopdf.com available in Lithuanian" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-available-in-lithuanian#post-3615 Fri, 21 May 2010 12:57:56 +0000 Softland 3615@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Thanks to Nerijus we have the dopdf.com website available in Lithuanian too: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/lt/">dopdf.com/lt/</a>. If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting this page: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a>. You'll see there in which languages doPDF is not translated, and if you want to help you'll simply have to email us and we'll reply with details. Practically the website has about around 1200 words that need to be translated. Softland on "[Mention] doPDF is Editor's Choice on Softonic" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/mention-dopdf-is-editors-choice-on-softonic#post-3597 Wed, 12 May 2010 12:22:22 +0000 Softland 3597@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Softonic is one of the most visited software download portal (over 100 million downloads per month) and they've chosen doPDF as the Editor Choice. I'll sum up the review they did for doPDF to this line only, that pretty much says everything: <blockquote>doPDF is one of the easiest and fastest ways to convert your documents to PDF for free.</blockquote> You can read the full review here: <a href="http://dopdf.en.softonic.com/">doPDF on Softonic.com</a> Softland on "We need your help in rating doPDF" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/we-need-your-help-in-rating-dopdf#post-3551 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:30:30 +0000 Softland 3551@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ If you like doPDF you can help us help your friends that are looking for a freeware PDF creator by simply clicking a button. Google recently launched a social sharing service called +1, so in order to recommend doPDF you have to simply click the +1 button below: <div class="g-plusone" data-size="tall" data-count="true" data-href="http://www.dopdf.com/"></div> Other ways you can help doPDF are: <ul> <li><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?app_id=204756239567392&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dopdf.com%2F&send=false&layout=standard&width=450&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&font=verdana&height=30" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:30px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></li> <li>Share it on Linkedin: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js"></script><script type="in/share" data-url="http://www.dopdf.com/" data-counter="right"></script></li> <li>Become a fan of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/dopdf/">doPDF's official Facebook page</a></li> <li>Become a fan of <a href="http://plus.google.com/117653108199496530698/">doPDF's official Google Plus page</a></li> <li>Sign-up to receive updates <a href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=dopdf&loc=en_US" target="_blank">by email</a> or follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/dopdf" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</li> <li>Rating in Office marketplace. This is a resource for all things office related, and since doPDF works closely with Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint to PDF conversion) it's listed in there. We need your help in rating doPDF for the new office marketplace. All you have to do is visit this page, <a href="http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/dopdf-EM010256620.aspx">http://office2010.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/dopdf-EM010256620.aspx</a> (opens in a new window) and in the Rate this marketplace listing section roll over the star that you think doPDF deserves (hint: 5 star is all the way to the right :-) ) and click on it - you'll see a new section expanding with Why do you like it and a comment box (which is not mandatory) but all you have to do to submit the feedback is click on Submit.</li> </ul> Thank you! Softland on "[Announcement] doPDF is now open source" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/announcement-dopdf-is-now-open-source#post-3499 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:39:28 +0000 Softland 3499@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ We're happy to announce that as of April 1st doPDF is now open source. We will be continuing the development as as lead developers of the project, but anyone is free to join the project and contribute. You can download the source files from <a href="http://bit.ly/KqpS1" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/KqpS1</a> Thank you all. Softland on "[Translation] dopdf.com now in Thai" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-now-in-thai#post-1167 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:58:59 +0000 Softland 1167@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ One translation per day, not bad at all. Thanks to Manoch Somsak we have the dopdf.com website available in Thai too: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/th/">dopdf.com/th/</a>. If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting this page: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a>. You'll see there in which languages doPDF is not translated, and if you want to help you'll simply have to email us and we'll reply with details. Practically the website has about around 1200 words that need to be translated. Softland on "[Translation] dopdf.com now in Chinese Simplified" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-now-in-chinese-simplified#post-1151 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:40:01 +0000 Softland 1151@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Thanks to kx365 we have the dopdf.com website available in Chinese Simplified too: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/cn/">dopdf.com/cn/</a>. That brings the number of languages dopdf.com is available in to 24, thanks to all the translators that helped us! If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting this page: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a>. You'll see there in which languages doPDF is not translated, and if you want to help you'll simply have to email us and we'll reply with details. Practically the website has about around 1200 words that need to be translated. Softland on "[Major update] doPDF version 7 is here" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-version-7-is-here#post-1101 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:20:09 +0000 Softland 1101@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ We've just released version 7 of doPDF, you can download it by visiting the homepage <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/</a> and clicking on the "Get it" button. One major improvement is that now there is an exe file (called dopdf.exe). What's new in doPDF 7.0.320: <ul> <li>New: Until now doPDF converted TrueType and OpenType fonts, but starting with version 7 doPDF supports Type1 fonts too</li> <li>New: The "Embed fonts" option now only embeds the font subsets (reduces pdf file size)</li> <li>New: We've added a "Getting Started" splash page that can be accessed from Start-Programs-doPDF (lots of people asked where is the exe file). Still the recommended way for creating PDF files is to print to doPDF</li> <li>New: Added a new option to keep "Save PDF" window on top of others when printing (sometimes it got behind them and was difficult to save the PDF)</li> <li>Update: Minor GUI changes (Languages tab is now part of About, section adjustments)</li> <li>Update: doPDF 7 is fully compatible with Windows 7</li> </ul> Any comments/feedback are welcome. Softland on "[Other] Get novaPDF Lite for free" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/other-get-novapdf-lite-for-free#post-1129 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:07:45 +0000 Softland 1129@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ We've partnered with V3.co.uk (formerly VNUNET), one of UK's largest technology portal, and for a limited time you can get a free license of novaPDF Lite 7. You can take advantage of this promotion by visiting this page: <a href="http://store.v3.co.uk/p14619-novapdf_professional_desktop_7">Free novaPDF</a> Basically you only have to provide an email address where the registration details will be provided. Why should you get novaPDF Lite? Well, you should use it if you are looking for more features than doPDF has to offer (such as printing profiles, PDF/A compliance, possibility to merge PDF files or automatically saving them - full list of features available here - <a href="http://www.novapdf.com/en/novapdf-lite-desktop.html">novaPDF Lite</a>). Softland on "[Major update] doPDF 6.3.307 released" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-63307-released#post-940 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:04:42 +0000 Softland 940@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ doPDF 6.3 build 307 was released. It contains some new/updated features and bug fixes, so update is recommended. One important new feature is the ability to choose if the PDF will be opened once it's created or not. What's changed in doPDF 6.3.307: <ul> <li>New: doPDF now allows you to choose if the PDF reader will open after the PDF is created</li> <li>New: Uses local time instead of system time for PDF creation date and time</li> <li>New: Added Danish language for the interface</li> <li>New: Creates folders (multiple levels) when saving pdf file, if folders do not exist</li> <li>Fix: Corrected bug numeric values when no decimals allowed in regional settings - numbers</li> <li>Fix: Corrected mirrored images in printer driver</li> <li>Fix: Corrected bug to keep the resolution set in preferences</li> </ul> You can download the new version here: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/download.php">doPDF 6.3.307</a> Softland on "[Translation] doPDF.com available in Vietnamese" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-available-in-vietnamese#post-1067 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:48:05 +0000 Softland 1067@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Thanks to Mr. Nguyen VinhDung we now have the dopdf.com website available in Vietnamese too: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/vn/">dopdf.com/vn/</a>. That brings the number of languages dopdf.com is available in to 23, thanks to all the translators that helped us! If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting this page: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a>. You'll see there in which languages doPDF is not translated, and if you want to help you'll simply have to email us and we'll reply with details. Practically the website has about around 1200 words that need to be translated. Softland on "[Translation] doPDF.com available in Indonesian" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/translation-dopdfcom-available-in-indonesian#post-1044 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:16:32 +0000 Softland 1044@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Thanks to Santi berlinawati we now have the dopdf.com website available in Indonesian too: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/id/">dopdf.com/id/</a>. That brings the number of languages dopdf.com is available in to 22, thanks to all the translators that helped us! If you want to help us translate the website (or the interface) in a language that's not yet translated in, you can start by visiting this page: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/languages.php">Languages</a>. You'll see there in which languages doPDF is not translated, and if you want to help you'll simply have to email us and we'll reply with details. Practically the website has about around 1200 words that need to be translated. Softland on "Registry Booster discount and other Uniblue products discounted" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/registry-booster-discount-and-other-uniblue-products-discounted#post-973 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:34:38 +0000 Softland 973@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ We've partnered with Uniblue (makers of RegistryBooster, SpeedUpMyPc, DriverScanner and DiskRescue) to offer a discount on their products for dopdf.com/forum users. The discount is $10 off the regular price, cutting the price down to around $20 for each product. So if you intended to purchase any of their products but wanted a better price, now's your chance. Here are the links for the discounts (you won't be charged by clicking the link, it will simply open their order page where you can see the discount and decide what to do): <ul> <li><a href="http://bit.ly/3QyS6M">RegistryBooster discount</a></li> <li><a href="http://bit.ly/GKmja">SpeedUpMyPC discount</a></li> <li><a href="http://bit.ly/E2Gjy">DriverScanner discount</a></li> <li><a href="http://bit.ly/oubwK">DiskRescue discount</a></li> </ul> We tested these discounts and they are valid, however if you encounter any problems add a reply and I'll pass it on. Softland on "[Mention] doPDF on TecChannel" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/mention-dopdf-on-tecchannel#post-831 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:36:51 +0000 Softland 831@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ doPDF was recently reviewed on TecChannel, a popular German IT portal. The article is published in German and cn be viewed here: <a href="http://www.tecchannel.de/pc_mobile/tools/2019652/dopdf_kostenloser_pdf_konverter_virtueller_druckertreiber/">doPDF - Kostenloser PDF-Konverter</a>. The reviewer draws a conclusion about doPDF (more or less, my German is rusty): "An extremely simple PDF converter, but this is what makes doPDF charming". If you've seen doPDF mentioned in a magazine that we haven't noticed yet, feel free to let us know via the forum. Softland on "[Mention] doPDF named outstanding by Softonic" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/mention-dopdf-named-outstanding-by-softonic#post-816 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:25:00 +0000 Softland 816@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Softonic is Spain's most visited software download portal and after reviewing doPDF they've named it "outstanding". An excerpt from the review: <blockquote>An excellent PDF converter that's fast, easy to use and serves as more than an adequate replacement for Adobe's software.</blockquote> You can read the full review here: <a href="http://dopdf.en.softonic.com/">doPDF on Softonic.com</a> P.S. And the Spanish version of this site shows a lot of doPDF fans too, given that the number of downloads surpasses 200000 and there are well over 150 comments for it: <a href="http://dopdf.softonic.com/">doPDF on Softonic (Spanish)</a> Softland on "[Minor update] doPDF 6.2.299" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/minor-update-dopdf-62299#post-764 Thu, 07 May 2009 13:42:51 +0000 Softland 764@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ doPDF 6.2 build 300 was released. It contains some bug fixes, so update is recommended. What's changed in doPDF 6.2.300: <ul> <li>Update: doPDF is now compatible with Windows 7 RC</li> <li>Fix: When printing from Adobe Reader some characters were not converted correctly (music notes)</li> <li>Fix: Corrected crash occurring when showing error message box on PDF save</li> <li>Fix: Corrected some client hangs when printing particular Excel files</li> <li>Fix: Fixed crash occurring when printing from ttf16.ocx</li> </ul> You can download the new version here: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/download.php">doPDF 6.2.300</a> Softland on "[Announcement] doPDF is compatible with Windows 7 (RC)" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/announcement-dopdf-is-compatible-with-windows-7-rc#post-762 Thu, 07 May 2009 08:01:20 +0000 Softland 762@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ We've tested doPDF 6.2.296 with the newly released Windows 7 release candidate and we can confirm that it's fully compatible with it. This is good news since it means that doPDF will most likely be 100% compatible with the final release of Windows 7, thus the early OS adopters will be able to use their favorite PDF creator (yes, doPDF) on Windows 7 too. If you don't have the latest version of doPDF installed (that we tested on Windows 7 and it works), you can download it here: <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/download.php">doPDF 6.2</a>