Calibre 0.8.61

Friday, July 20, 2012

Calibre is a one stop solution to all your e-book needs. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works well on Linux, OS X and Windows. calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Library Management
calibre manages your e-book collection for you. It is designed around the concept of the logical book, i.e., a single entry in your library that may correspond to actual e-book files in several formats.

E-book conversion
calibre can convert from a huge number of formats to a huge number of formats. It supports all the major e-book formats. The full list of formats can be found here.
The conversion engine has lots of powerful features. It can rescale all font sizes, ensuring the output e-book is readable no matter what font sizes the input document uses. It can automatically detect/create book structure, like chapters and Table of Contents. It can insert the book metadata into a "Book Jacket" at the start of the book.

Syncing to e-book reader devices
calibre has a modular device driver design that makes adding support for different e-reader devices easy. At the moment, it has support for a large number of devices, the complete list of which is here. Syncing supports updating metadata on the device from metadata in the library and creation of collections on the device based on the tags defined in the library. If a book has more than one format available, calibre automatically chooses the best format when uploading to the device. If none of the formats is suitable, calibre will automatically convert the e-book to a format suitable for the device before sending it.

Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
calibre can automatically fetch news from websites or RSS feeds, format the news into a ebook and upload to a connected device. The ebooks include the full versions of the articles, not just the summaries. calibre has over three hundred news sources and the news system is plugin based, allowing users to easily create and contribute new sources to calibre. As a result the collection of news sources keeps on growing!

Comprehensive e-book viewer
calibre has a built-in ebook viewer that can display all the major ebook formats. It has full support for Table of Contents, bookmarks, CSS, a reference mode, printing, searching, copying, customizing the rendering via a user style sheet, embedded fonts, etc.

Content server for online access to your book collection
calibre has a built-in web server that allows you to access your ebook collection using a simple browser from any computer anywhere in the world. It can also email your books and downloaded news to you automatically. It has support for mobile devices, so you can browse your collection and download books from your smartphone, Kindle, etc.

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Nitro PDF Professional 7.5.0.15

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Nitro Pro 7 gives you everything you need to create, convert, edit, sign, and share 100% industry-standard PDF files. It's simple, straightforward, and intuitive to use so you can work more productively, your way. Open, read and edit PDF files from other PDF applications, like Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader.

"Best PDF software" Does everything I need it to do, and love the price. Great software, that is easy enough for dumb people like me to use. Well worth the money.

Nitro Pro 7 gives you a powerful set of easy-to-use tools that make working with digital documents simple, straightforward, and more cost-effective. Nitro Pro, the complete Adobe Acrobat alternative, enables you to do more with PDF through powerful tools to create, convert, edit, combine, secure, annotate, form-fill, and save 100% industry-standard PDF files. Recipient of multiple best product awards, Nitro Pro is specifically designed for the business user and makes working with PDF faster and easier than ever before!

Whats new in version 7:

• Paragraph Text Editing. Edit text right in the copy of the paragraph, without converting to Microsoft Word or a text editor just like you would in a word processing application. Edit words and lines of text within paragraphs, reformat, realign, reflow, and adjust text attributes without leaving your PDF document.
• Signature Profiles. Create profiles for rapid application of your digital signature. This is a huge timesaver when having to sign the same PDF multiple times.
• Stamp Signature. Digitally apply or stamp your signature to a page so it looks as natural as pen and paper. Its as simple as the click of a button.
• Integrated, High-Performance Renderer. An enhanced renderer delivers greater performance and increased quality. Enjoy crisper text, more accurate and faster rendering of vector art and CAD drawings, more responsive editing, zooming, scrolling, and more.
• Redaction. Now you can search for, identify, and permanently remove sensitive or private text and images from documents.

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Nitro PDF Reader 2.4.1.15

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Nitro PDF Reader is an application that allows you to view and edit PDF files in a user-friendly environment.
During installation, Nitro PDF Reader offers to set up a plugin for your web browsers, one that enables you to directly view PDF documents without having to download them (as it usually happens with other PDF readers).

The interface of the tool is simple and intuitive. You can open a PDF document by using the file browser or the "drag and drop" method.
So, you can view file properties, create digital IDs, save text as a flattened PDF, as well as print it or email it as a PDF attachment.

But you can also zoom in and out, use a hand tool to move easily, fit the page, rotate the view and use a selection tool for graphics, text and snapshots.

In addition, you can add notes and markup text (highlight, crossout, underline), type text and stamp a copy of your handwritten signature on the page.

Furthermore, you can convert several formats (including DOC, DOCX, HTML, TXT, BMP, JPG and WMF) to PDFs or text documents, extract images from PDF files, work with forms, use the undo, redo and search functions, customize the user interface, and more.

The software takes up a moderate-to-high amount of system resources, includes a comprehensive help file for beginners and didn't freeze, crash or pop up errors during our tests. Also, it has a very good response time.

The bottom line is that we couldn't find anything wrong with Nitro PDF Reader and we strongly recommend it to all users, whether they are novices or experts.

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WinScan2PDF 1.67

Friday, June 22, 2012

WinScan2PDF is a very small (~40k) and portable program that allows you to scan documents and save them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.

Why "Win Scan 2 PDF":
Are you one of those who only occasionally has to send a signed document to someone by e-mail?

So you don't need a PDF printer driver or some other complex program.



With WinScan2PDF it is no longer necessary!
Simply save the scanned documents into PDF and save them to a file on your computer.
The program is very simple to use.

Features:

Very Small

Low CPU usage

Direct scan the documents and save them as a pdf

PDF multiple pages support

Optional translation feature

Portable

Multilingual 

Size: 23.4 KB
License: Freeware
Requires: Win XP/2003/08/Vista/Windows7 

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FocusWriter 1.3.6

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free writing environment. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. It's available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, and has been translated into many different languages.

Features:

TXT, basic RTF, and basic ODT file support

Timers and alarms

Daily goals

Fully customizable themes

Typewriter sound effects (optional)

Auto-save (optional)

Live statistics (optional)

Spell-checking (optional)

Multi-document support

Sessions

Portable mode (optional)

 

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PDF Studio 7.4.0

Saturday, June 16, 2012

PDF Studio is a useful software that allows you to easily edit your PDF documents. The interface of the program is familiar to the one of a word processor, so you shouldn't have any problems in getting around PDF Studio's features. PDF documents can be imported via the file browser only, because the "drag and drop" method is not supported. So, you can use a hand and selection tool, search for text, view attachments, bookmarks and comments, as well as rotate pages and zoom in and out. But you can also go to the first, last, previous or next page, create bookmarks, insert a blank page, extract, replace, reverse or crop pages. Furthermore, you can extract text, view document properties, create a header, footer and watermark, add a text box, sticky note, callout or typewriter, underline or cross out text, as well as insert images, sounds, links and files. In addition, you can create a text or image stamp, export pages as images, change the interface language, edit user information, customize toolbars, enable PDF Studio to automatically check for updates at a specific time interval, and more. The PDF editor takes up a pretty high amount of system resources, can guide you to a comprehensive help file with snapshots online and didn't freeze, crash or display errors during our tests. We highly recommend PDF Studio to all users, regardless of their experience level.

Reviewing and Annotating: · Highlight, cross-out, underline text · Add sticky notes, text boxes, and freehand (pencil) annotations · Add hyperlinks (web url, file, or email) · Add graphical annotations: circles, rectangles, lines, arrows, polygons, clouds · Add sound annotations and record audio right into the PDF document · Add rubber stamps, choose from predefined stamps or build your own · Attach files to a PDF document · Precision measuring tools for distances, areas and perimeters · Annotation review status (as part of the review cycle) · Import and export annotations in FDF/ XFDF / XDP formats · Flatten annotations Working with PDF Forms: · Fill in and save interactive PDF forms · Also fill in non-interactive forms using the typewriter tool · Import and export form data in FDF / XFDF / XDP formats · Flatten interactive form fields Creating and Assembling Documents: · Scan papers directly to PDF (except on Mac OSX Lion in version 6) · Convert Word (.doc, docx), images and text files to PDF · Extract, insert, move, rotate and delete pages · Split by bookmarks, page range, text search · Sophisticated bookmark / document outline creation · Set document properties and initial view Editing Content: · Edit, delete text content, change text properties · Manual redaction for text and images · Move, resize, and save images · Move, resize shapes and path objects Adding Security to PDF Documents: · Secure documents with passwords · Encrypt with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption · Set user permissions on PDF documents · Digitally sign PDF documents · Manage digital ids and trusted certificates Batch Functions: · Work on multiple documents at once : Print, Set security, Convert, Extract text, Crop, Merge, Split, Apply headers, footers and watermarks, Preflight, Set initial view. Advanced User Interface: · Quick navigation through thumbnails, bookmarks, signatures and comments panes · Powerful tool chest to store recent and favorite markups New! · Drag & drop pages to move them across documents · Compare 2 documents side by side · Loupe tool Other Features: · Text search and extraction · Convert PDF documents to images (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG) · Convert images to PDF documents (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG) · Preflight documents using PDF/X profiles · Apply headers, footers, watermarks or custom actions · Tablet PC Ready

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