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doPDF Forum: Forum: Tutorials - Recent Topics http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Discussion forum for doPDF users. en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:37:16 +0000 alexonfire on "How to Convert a Webpage / Word Document to PDF" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-to-convert-a-webpage-word-document-to-pdf#post-4861 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:26:04 +0000 alexonfire 4861@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Hello, doPDF community Here is a little video I made to show you, how to convert a webpage and a word document to PDF. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEkBPZiubEc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEkBPZiubEc</a> I hope you learn something new from it. mwandler on "multiple pages in one PDF file" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/multiple-pages-in-one-pdf-file#post-4763 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:40:34 +0000 mwandler 4763@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ How can I store multiple pages into one PDF file? NewUser on "How to "print" a checkable box" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-to-print-a-checkable-box#post-4616 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:15:24 +0000 NewUser 4616@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Is there a way to embed a code for a checkable box in the text that I am printing with doPDF? I have seen references to Adobe commands such as this: PDFDoc.Page.AddCheckbox "DemoCheckBoxes", 100, 100, 120, 110 ... although I am unsure if the resulting box would be checkable. I would need the resulting PDF document (a form, I guess) to have a box that could be toggled by clicking on it ... on/off-style. Thanks for any help. KindlebyAdele on "Workflow Recommendations - About PDF" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/workflow-recommendations-about-pdf#post-4595 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:05:40 +0000 KindlebyAdele 4595@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Hurricane Irene forced me to regroup with my digital toolkit. I need PDF advanced features but early retirement makes the budget tight. So I made this video to provide an Overview about PDF that can be used in the communities I serve as a volunteer as well as potentially give a few tips to those that are not novice users. I posted my video which also represents 1st use of other tools here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZ6l7lCyHs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QZ6l7lCyHs</a> Valerie on "How to remove file location on each PDF page?" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-to-remove-file-location-on-each-pdf-page#post-4448 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:47:54 +0000 Valerie 4448@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ I am getting a file location stamp at the bottom of each converted page. I do not care to publish where I am storing the PDF file on my local disk. How do I convert without stamping this location on my resulting PDF file? THANKS! Nirann on "doPDF full support for RTL languages (Video Tutorial)" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/dopdf-full-support-for-rtl-languages-video-tutorial#post-4369 Sun, 15 May 2011 15:11:52 +0000 Nirann 4369@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Hello Having tested dozen of free pdf creators I came to conclusion to use doPDF.The reason is that it is able to produce documents in RTL languages (Persian) with no copy/paste problem.If your document is in RTL language and you convert it to pdf then you can no longer Copy and paste its content as they become distorted.doPDF does this job well. Not bad to mention that the only alternative I found that does the job is Adobe distiller(300$)! This video tutorial is just a simple HowTo.Enjoy... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jciYtETNrk" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jciYtETNrk</a> Regards Nirann cmpm100 on "Web to PDF with doPdf" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/web-to-pdf-with-dopdf#post-4362 Fri, 13 May 2011 10:43:47 +0000 cmpm100 4362@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7oTaZAGteM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7oTaZAGteM</a> sheila on "inserting a jpeg" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/inserting-a-jpeg#post-4329 Wed, 04 May 2011 20:18:28 +0000 sheila 4329@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Hi Can I insert a jpeg into a document created using pdf professional 7 ? weir3D on "Resizing PDFs for eBook (Tutorial)" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/resizing-pdfs-for-ebook-tutorial#post-4317 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:04:12 +0000 weir3D 4317@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Most pdf files are meant to be print on actual paper, so they have nice wide white borders all around... that's really annoying when you want to read the file on an ebook reader. But you can use doPDF to crop away that extra whitespace. I recorded a short video tutorial explaining how to do it - but sorry folks, it's in german... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6f3Q2tXSR0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6f3Q2tXSR0</a> tonrdam on "DOS printing" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/dos-printing#post-4176 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:12:34 +0000 tonrdam 4176@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ I have installed doPDF and it works like a charm. The thing is 1 have 1 application that runs in a DOS box, the prints from that application are printed, scanned to pdf and mailed, which is wasteful. At the moment i use NET USE LPT1 \\domain\printer to print to our network printer. What i want to do is to reconfigure to print to dopdf something like NET USE LPT2 \\pcname\dopdf First thing i noticed was that if i try to share dopdf it does not work, goes back to not shared, anybody out there who has something like this working oudeh on "Password" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/password#post-3947 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:41:44 +0000 oudeh 3947@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Change password from one sent by email at registeration? louisgeorges on "How can I blur part of the text without the big file size?" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-can-i-blur-part-of-the-text-without-the-big-file-size#post-3898 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:58:09 +0000 louisgeorges 3898@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ I'm trying to give a teaser to my clients of my new PDF but when I blur most of the text the size of the file increase tremendously. How can I blur large portion of the text and keep the size of the file down? I was hoping to find a font already blurred but all the ones I found were readable. I know it's supposed to be be readable but I'm sure I'm not the only one who could use a "teaser" unreadable font. So if you know a way please let me know. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post. Thanks, Louis wjsmom01 on "Don't want it to open after printing" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/dont-want-it-to-open-after-printing#post-3818 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:43:34 +0000 wjsmom01 3818@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ After printing and naming the file, I don't want it to open in Adobe. I just want to be able to file it without having to close out the document before saving. I'm sure there's a box somewhere to check to keep it from opening, but I don't know where it is. Thanks. Karen Softland on "How to create PDF files with doPDF" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-to-create-pdf-files-with-dopdf#post-8 Wed, 28 May 2008 11:34:51 +0000 Softland 8@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ The first step in creating PDF files with doPDF is to download and install doPDF using the link below: <div><a href="http://www.dopdf.com/quick-download.php"><img border="0" src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/free-download.gif"/></a></div> This video tutorial shows how to create a PDF file with doPDF from Microsoft Word: <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LhksMt63jXc&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LhksMt63jXc&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> doPDF installs as a virtual PDF printer driver so there is no exe file to run in order to convert your documents into PDF files. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF Printer, like you would print to a normal printer. Below are some examples on how to create PDF files from various programs (the principle is the same, File->Print and select doPDF as the printer). How to create PDF files from Microsoft Word: <ol> <li>Open the Word document that you want to convert to a PDF file.</li> <li>Go to File->Print and select doPDF from the Printers combo-box.</li> <li>Click on Ok and choose a location for your PDF file.</li> </ol> Here is a screenshot of the above mentioned process: <img src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/free-pdf-converter.jpg"> How to create PDF files from Microsoft WordPad: <ol> <li>Open the document that you want to convert to a PDF file.</li> <li>Go to File->Print and select doPDF from the Printers list.</li> <li>Click on Print and choose a location for the PDF.</li> </ol> How to create PDF files from NotePad: <ol> <li>Open the NotePad document that you want to convert to a PDF file.</li> <li>Go to File->Print and select doPDF from the Printers list.</li> <li>Click on Print and choose a location for the PDF.</li> </ol> mylife_myrules on "Creating a link to a folder" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/creating-a-link-to-a-folder#post-3598 Wed, 12 May 2010 15:42:30 +0000 mylife_myrules 3598@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Hi, This could be a stupid question but does anyone know how to create a link to a folder? you can create a link to a file or a web address but not a folder. HELP!!!!>?!!! THANKS Kiloseven on "Will doPDF7 work if user doesn't have Admin rights?" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/will-dopdf7-work-if-user-doesnt-have-admin-rights#post-1256 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:59:16 +0000 Kiloseven 1256@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Will doPDF7 work if user doesn't have Admin rights? We need to install it on a PC which many people use and which must not have Admin rights. Softland on "Silent install parameters for doPDF" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/silent-install-parameters-for-dopdf#post-1220 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:55:36 +0000 Softland 1220@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ This information is included in help too. These are the parameters accepted by the doPDF installer via command line: Install parameters for doPDF /SILENT, /VERYSILENT Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent. When Setup is silent the wizard and the background window are not displayed but the installation progress window is. When a setup is very silent this installation progress window is not displayed. Everything else is normal, so for example error messages during installation are displayed. If a restart is necessary and the /NORESTART command isn't used (see below) and Setup is silent, it will display a Reboot now? message box. If it's very silent it will reboot without asking. /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES Instructs Setup to suppress message boxes. Only has an effect when combined with /SILENT and /VERYSILENT. /NOCANCEL Prevents the user from canceling during the installation process, by disabling the Cancel button and ignoring clicks on the Close button. Useful along with /SILENT or /VERYSILENT. /NORESTART Instructs Setup not to reboot even if it's necessary. /RESTARTEXITCODE=exit code Specifies the custom exit code that Setup is to return when a restart is needed. Useful along with /NORESTART'. /DIR="x:\dirname" Overrides the default directory name displayed on the Select Destination Location wizard page. A fully qualified pathname must be specified. /GROUP="folder name" Overrides the default folder name displayed on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. /NOICONS Instructs Setup to initially check the Don't create a Start Menu folder check box on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. /LANG="language" Specifies the language to use for the installation. When a valid /LANG parameter is used, the Select Language dialog will be suppressed. /Languages="language1-language2-..." Specifies the languages that will be installed (e.g. /Languages="en-it-ro" will install the English, Italian and Romanian language packs). Language codes available in the current version: ar - Arabic bg - Bulgarian br - Portuguese Brazilian cs - Czech ct - Chinese Traditional de - German en - English es - Spanish fi - Finnish fr - French gr - Greek hu - Hungarian it - Italian ja - Japanese kr - Korean nl - Dutch no - Norwegian pl - Polish pt - Portuguese ro - Romanian ru - Russian sc - Chinese Simplified si - Slovenian sr - Serbian sv - Swedish tr - Turkish vi - Vietnamese uk - Ukrainian /DefaultLang="language" Specifies the default language. Use short language codes (exactly as those listed for the /Languages parameter above) or the REGST constant for Use regional settings option. /Default Instructs Setup to set the printer as default printer. /NoInstallIfExists Instructs setup to check if the same edition of doPDF is already installed. If found it does not start the installation. /NoInstallIfVersion="major version.minor version.build no" Instructs setup to check if doPDF is already installed. If found it checks what version is installed. If the version installed is older then the given parameter, it proceeds with installation. If the installed version is the same or newer then the given parameter, it does not start the installation. Uninstall doPDF The uninstaller has also some parameters for silent uninstall (they have the same meaning as for the installer, see above for details): /SILENT /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART acani on "Emailing" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/emailing#post-352 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:46:40 +0000 acani 352@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ how to send pdf's using email Candu on "problem printing multiple Excel sheets" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/problem-printing-multiple-excel-sheets#post-124 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:20:23 +0000 Candu 124@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ I can select multiple sheets in Excel and print to a multi-page PDF. This works in most cases but in other cases doPDF will only print 1 sheet per PDF file and give me the "Save PDF" pop up on each sheet. I can't find any rhyme or reason for it except that it mainly throws this on new sheets in the workbook even though they are identical & have same print setup as the other sheets. I have tried saving & reopening Excel after adding sheets but with the same results. Any ideas? DocW on "Why Files Open in Acrobat, Not Reader" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/why-files-open-in-acrobat-not-reader#post-650 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:53:39 +0000 DocW 650@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Greetings, I have both CS 3 and Reader 8 installed. When I use doPDF, the resulting file opens in Acrobat instead of Reader despite the fact that I have my system set to open .PDF files with Reader (Acrobat and the other components of CS3 take much longer to load). Can you please advise how I can get the files created by doPDF to open in Reader rather than Acrobat? kmdhws on "Links" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/links#post-568 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:58:47 +0000 kmdhws 568@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ How do I get <a href HTML Links to work in pdf? Thanks kmdhws annay on "How to keep background colour during conversion from word?" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-to-keep-background-colour-during-conversion-from-word#post-554 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:18:21 +0000 annay 554@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ I recently downloaded doPDF to convert a file from Microsoft Word 2007. The document I created was using white text on an entirely black background, however when I converted it to .pdf the background colour became white again, which means you can no longer read the text. How do I ensure that the background colour carries over into the .pdf document? PaintedParadise7 on "Keeping file size down" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/keeping-file-size-down#post-553 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:12:36 +0000 PaintedParadise7 553@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ I need serious help. I need to keep my pdf documents under 2 MB. For instance, I created a word document that had pictures in it. When I was done, the document was .98 MB, I opened up the print option and chose doPDF v 6. It converted over to pdf, but shot the file size up to 2.15 MB. I compressed all of the pictures down before I even placed them in the document, so that isn't the problem. Help! Softland on "Accessing the doPDF Printing Preferences" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/accessing-the-dopdf-printing-preferences#post-10 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:04:25 +0000 Softland 10@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ You can access the Printing Preferences window and change the various settings available (page size, page orientation, graphic resolution, language). To access the doPDF Printing Preferences window in Windows Vista: <ol> <li>Go to Start and click on Printers (if you have the Classic menu go to Start->Settings->Printers)</li> <li>In the Printers window, right-click doPDF and select Printing Preferences</li> <li>doPDF Printing Preferences window will be displayed, press Ok to save changes done to it</li> </ol> To access the doPDF Printing Preferences window in Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server: <ol> <li>Go to Start and click on Printers and Faxes (if you have the Classic menu go to Start->Settings->Printers and Faxes)</li> <li>In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click doPDF and select Printing Preferences</li> <li>doPDF Printing Preferences window will be displayed, press Ok to save changes done to it</li> </ol> To access the doPDF Printing Preferences window in Windows 2000: <ol> <li>Go to Start and click on Printers</li> <li>In the Printers window, right-click doPDF and select Printing Preferences</li> <li>doPDF Printing Preferences window will be displayed, press Ok to save changes done to it</li> </ol> dopdfuser on "PDF images/pages created with smaller size than original" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/pdf-imagespages-created-with-smaller-size-than-original#post-389 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:55:27 +0000 dopdfuser 389@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ I see a problem when printing eBooks to a doPDF printer. The resulting pdf file has a lot of white space on all sides of the text ad hence it appears to be much smaller than the original size as seen in the eBook. Does doPDF do a size reduction of the incoming data? Is there an option to turn this off? Can doPDF by default 'fit the text' onto the Letter size page when creating a pdf file? aliriza on "Convert .doc in .pdf" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/convert-doc-in-pdf#post-339 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:53:20 +0000 aliriza 339@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Please Germany needs help. How can I convert a word-document in a pdf-document? When I call up my programme under VISTA than I see "doPDF 6 remove", "doPDF hel", "doPDF license", "doPDF Read me" and "visit the forum". The printer is shown. Do anybody can give advice? icsdata on "Trouble with Multiple Pdfs with one workbook" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/trouble-with-multiple-pdfs-with-one-workbook#post-278 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:46:13 +0000 icsdata 278@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Hello, I am having trouble when I print an Excel workbook. There are a total of 9 worksheets in the workbook with 90 "printable" pages. When I attempt to print using DoPDF, instead of printing a pdf with 90 pages, it attempts to split up the workbook into 6 different pdfs. This does not seem to correspond with the amount of worksheets or pages being printed. I think that this has something to do with the headers in the workbook, since when I create a new workbook in excel and attempt to recreate the problem, I cannot and one pdf is made with the merged multiple worksheets. I don't know if this is a problem with DoPDF since I have alternative pdf printers and all do the same thing. Is there any hope to fix this issue? Thanks in advance! pianocps on "offline view the forum" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/offline-view-the-forum#post-47 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:43:44 +0000 pianocps 47@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ how to download the forum to view specific topic? for example I have interest in specific topic in the forum, but there is 300 pages reply, it need to take such a long time to go through all the pages and I want to download it and view it offline (outdoor) ? I've tried to use this dopdf software, but its seems only can save one page only, if the topic have 300 pages, do I need to do save it 300 times seprately? Softland on "Completely uninstalling doPDF" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/completely-uninstalling-dopdf#post-44 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:16:31 +0000 Softland 44@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ If for some reason doPDF is not working, you can perform a complete uninstall of doPDF and reinstalling it to see if the problem is solved. Even if you use the normal Uninstaller included in the doPDF Start group, there are some files left behind that need to be cleaned up too, so here's a small guide on how to perform a complete uninstall and a reinstall: <ol> <li>Uninstall doPDF using the Uninstall option in the Start->Programs->doPDF 7->Uninstall doPDF 7</li> <li>after it's uninstalled, manually delete the following files from the locations specified (there might not be any left, but if they are delete them): dopdf7.chm dopdf7.clg dopdf7_en.lng dopdfcl7.exe dopdfpr7.dll dopdfui7.dll dpactx7.dll dopdf7.ctm from these locations (verify them all please): C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\ C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\ C:\WINDOWS\system32</li> If the Windows version is 64 bit then remove the specified files from these locations: C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\ C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\x64\ C:\WINDOWS\system32 <li>after those are deleted restart your computer and download the new version of doPDF from <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/</a> and install it. If for some reason the old version cannot be removed (files in use), you can try the above mentioned solutions in Safe Mode.</li> </ol> Softland on "Testing if doPDF is installed correctly" http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/testing-if-dopdf-is-installed-correctly#post-9 Wed, 28 May 2008 11:59:43 +0000 Softland 9@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ After installation you can test if doPDF is working properly by printing a test page. If the test page is successfully converted into a PDF file, doPDF should be working properly. Instructions on how to print a test page are included below. To print a test page in Windows Vista: <ol> <li>Go to Start and click on Printers (if you have the Classic menu go to Start->Settings->Printers)</li> <li>In the Printers window, right-click doPDF and select Properties</li> <li>In the doPDF Properties window, click on Print Test Page</li> <li>You will be prompted to select a location and name for the test PDF file. Choose one and click Save.</li> <li>After the PDF was created and saved, it will open in your default PDF reader and you will see the printed test page.</li> </ol> To print a test page in Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server: <ol> <li>Go to Start and click on Printers and Faxes (if you have the Classic menu go to Start->Settings->Printers and Faxes)</li> <li>In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click doPDF and select Properties</li> <li>In the doPDF Properties window, click on Print Test Page</li> <li>You will be prompted to select a location and name for the test PDF file. Choose one and click Save.</li> <li>After the PDF was created and saved, it will open in your default PDF reader and you will see the printed test page.</li> </ol> To print a test page in Windows 2000: <ol> <li>Go to Start and click on Printers</li> <li>In the Printers window, right-click doPDF and select Properties</li> <li>In the doPDF Properties window, click on Print Test Page</li> <li>You will be prompted to select a location and name for the test PDF file. Choose one and click Save.</li> <li>After the PDF was created and saved, it will open in your default PDF reader and you will see the printed test page.</li> </ol>