Best PDF Printer
Best PDF Printer
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Hi all,
What's the best free PDF printer you've used? I need to create some batch PDF files (50+). I need something so that I can just schedule a task and not have to give any input after that.
CHeers
What's the best free PDF printer you've used? I need to create some batch PDF files (50+). I need something so that I can just schedule a task and not have to give any input after that.
CHeers
60% of the time, it works every time.






RE: Best PDF Printer
Some good ones are;
PDF995
CutePDF
Adobe PDF
If you have the SW Premium or Professional package you should be able to use the Task Scheduler and SWs built in PDF writer.
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macro at:
http://www.goengineer.com/support/downloads.aspx
Make sure all your drawings are up to date.
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RE: Best PDF Printer
It's PDF Creator over on Sourceforge. Very fast and flexible.
Tony
IBM Intellistation Z Pro
Dual Xeon 5160
Nvidia Quadro FX 4500
10GB RAM
XP x64
Solidworks 2007 SP4.0 x64
Solidworks 2008 SP0.0 x64
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CJ Goodrich
Product Design Engineer
Leatherman Tool Group
Portland, Oregon
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Jason
SolidWorks 2007 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2008 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
RE: Best PDF Printer
Microsoft tried to add native pdf support to Windows and Office and got hammered for it. I believe they actually had it in some beta builds. There is a double standard against them. Apple has native pdf and no-one cries about Apple trying to take over pdf, but when Microsoft goes and tries to add it, everyone comes out of the woodwork. Now Microsoft is going to be pushing its XPS file format. Some interesting things about it. Not sure it will make a dent, but still interesting. I think it will support 3D as well, and given Dassault's recent partnership with Microsoft it may not be a bad thing for SolidWorks. SolidWorks 2008 can print/create/output XPS files and eDrawings 2008 will view them. I think in Windows Vista, anyone can view these files b/c its part of the .Net 3.0 framework. As I have heard it explained, XPS is the raw print file that printers will use to print documents and its fidelity is expected to be excellent. As for pdf creators, I have tried a bunch. I have run across fidelity problems with the free ones that I have tried (pdf995 and cutePDF). We purchased and use Bluebeam. I really like its pdf viewer (Revu) with its editing capabilities. Much better price than Adobe as well.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx
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I always used PFDCreator (tony gave you the link), but the SW built in 'safe as PFD' works better, smaller filesizes and better searchability (it stores more info as text instead of bitmaps).
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe transcends reason.
RE: Best PDF Printer
XPS certainly looks interesting, especially since the IE plugin to view it allready works pretty good.
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer
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Pete
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XPS works fine under XP, I actually tested it to see where it stands as a PDF replacement in XP x64 and the IE plugin worked well.
The file format does need a lot of work before it becomes as versatile as PDF, but I woudn't write it off. Microsoft can sometimes create very good products (and sometimes they seem to do well below average)...
Stick to PDF for the time being.
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer
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Thanks for all the feedback.
60% of the time, it works every time.
RE: Best PDF Printer