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These webpages are included in the Free PDF Download as they ARE the documentation Congratulations! You've FOUND IT!
What is Free PDF?
Free PDF is a utility which allows you to create PDFs just by printing to a "Create PDF" printer, from any Windows 9x/ME application FOR FREE!
Free PDF bridges between RedMon (owned by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd) and Aladdin Ghostscript (owned by Aladdin Enterprises), thus simplifying the PDF creation process, providing useful options and making it easy to use them. Configuration of the programs requires comprehension and some effort on your part.
Althougth, functionally, Free PDF behaves like a printer, Free PDF is not a printer driver. You can use any Postscript printer driver you like.
So you can print anything (almost) to a PDF limited only by your imagination.
Note that some of the advanced PDF features, including PDF hotlinks, PDF indexing and PDF Table of Contents, are not supported.
Here's the Official Hype[r] Spin Mode (in PDF format) that anyone has permission to use as a good description for Free PDF on Download sites (Just Click on the Screen shot to see the PDF):
What Free PDF does, and does not, do:
Free PDF is a simple, small program. It is just an enabler.
In the interests of fairness, giving credit where credit is due, and not taking credit for other people's work, it is important that you understand what Free PDF does, and does not, do.
Free PDF does:
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Make it easy to use RedMon and Ghostscript to make PDFs
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Gives you a "Save As" Dialog for you to name your PDFs
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Remembers where you like to put your PDFs (the Default is on you desktop).
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Let you optionally call your Favorite PDF viewer to glance at you new PDF when you make one
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Lets you graphically configure where the Ghostscript and PDF viewer executables are.
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Gives you a variety of other options
Free PDF does not:
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Capture your PostScript printer output.RedMon does that
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Make PDF's from PostScript files. Ghostscript does that
Free PDF just makes it easy to use these other programs to make PDFs painlessly, merely by printing from Windows 9x applications. Free PDF is a short simple program, sort of like a single player on a team. Other Programs (namely RedMon owned by Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd and Aladdin Ghostscript owned by Aladdin Enterprises) do the hard work (see the Background page for more information). Free PDF is a small, but vital piece of the puzzle. All these programs are Free.
Why Free PDF?
The Zipguy figures there are many people (like him) who want to create PDF (Portable Document Format) files in order to share their glorious creations with others,
But DON'T want to fork over $232 to buy Adobe Acrobat, If you're among these, then this is your lucky day! You've FOUND IT!
Yes, the setup is a bit of a pain, and it does take a little bit
time and effort on your part, But Only Once
But it is FREE! And It WORKS!
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