All MSI software,
including all BestInspectors.Net inspection reports, support PDF.
MSI software is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The PDF
print drivers listed below are for Windows PCs. Effective 01
July 2008, PDF is an International Standards Organization (aka ISO)
standard. Not all PDFs print drivers work the same. You
should try several PDF print drivers to see which one best fits your
needs. Learn more about Portable Document Format.
Title
PDF Print Drivers
Requirements
PDFCreator
PDFCreator
PDFCreator is a popular open
source print driver available free. It is provided here as for the
convenience of our customers.
Download PDF Creator
version 0.9.9.
Windows Vista and Windows 7
compatible!
XL Pro users use "Select Pages" or Select Pages to Print" to convert your files
to PDF.
Please note:
The version posted here is not
the most recent version. The
latest version has major
bugs in it that the developer will need to fix before we will recommend it.
Please let us know if you find errors in version 0.9.9.
We do not provide
technical support for PDFCreator or any other PDF software. Contact the
publisher for technical support.
Microsoft Office SaveAsPDF is an add-in for Microsoft Office 12 (aka 2007).
SaveAsPDF is already included in Service Pack 2 so you only need this if you do
not already have SP2 installed. SaveAsPDF is only compatible with XL Pro
reports for 2007 or 2010 that have the Create PDF command on the main Command Bar
or Control Panel. PDF print drivers such as PDF Creator are compatible with
all BestInspectors.Net inspection report software.
openPDF is based on a several open source software
products, such as Scribus, multivalent, PDFBox, iText among others. Allow users
to create/view/modify documents and forms, barcodes generation, data extraction
and signature validation.
Letter, Ledger, Legal, A3, A4, A5, 11x17, Note, A2, A6,
LetterSmall, A0, A1, A4Small, A7, A8, A9, A10, ISO B0, ISO B1, ISO B2, ISO B3,
ISO B4, ISO B5, ISO B6, JIS B0, JIS B1, JIS B2, JIS B3, JIS B4, JIS B5, JIS , 6,
C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, ARCHE, ARCHD, ARCHC, ARCHB, ARCHA, ARCHE1, ARCHE1
Half, FLSA, FLSE, HalfLetter, PA4, and Custom Page Sizes
doPDF installs itself as a virtual printer
driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes
list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF
pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or
any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to
save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened
in your default PDF viewer.
Portable Document
Format (PDF)
is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document
exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in
a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and
operating system.
Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout
2-D document (and, with Acrobat 3-D, embedded 3-D documents) that
includes the text, fonts, images, and 2-D vector graphics which
comprise the documents.
PDF is an open standard that was officially
published on July 1, 2008 by the ISO as ISO 32000-1:2008.
A PDF file consists primarily of objects,
of which there are eight types:
Boolean values, representing true or
false
Numbers
Strings
Names
Arrays, ordered collections of objects
Dictionaries, collections of objects indexed
by Names
Streams, usually containing large amounts of
data
The Null object
Objects may be either direct (embedded in
another object) or indirect. Indirect objects are numbered
with an object number and a generation number. An
index table called the xref table gives the byte offset of
each indirect object from the start of the file. This design allows
for efficient random access to the objects in the file, and also
allows for small changes to be made without rewriting the entire
file (incremental update). Beginning with PDF version 1.5,
indirect objects may also be located in special streams known as
object streams. This technique reduces the size of files that
have large numbers of small indirect objects and is especially
useful for Tagged PDF.
There are two layouts to the PDF files—non-linear
(not “optimized”) and linear (“optimized”). Non-linear PDF files
consume less disk space than their linear counterparts, though they
are slower to access because portions of the data required to
assemble pages of the document are scattered throughout the PDF
file. Linear PDF files (also called “optimized” or “web optimized”
PDF files) are constructed in a manner that enables them to be read
in a Web browser plug-in, since they are written to disk in a linear
(as in page order) fashion. PDF files may be optimized using pdfopt,
which is part of GPL Ghostscript.
A PDF file is often a combination of vector
graphics, text, and raster graphics. The basic types of content in a
PDF are:
text stored as such
vector graphics for illustrations and designs
that consist of shapes and lines
raster graphics for photographs and other
types of image
In later PDF revisions, a PDF document can also
support links (inside document or web page), forms, JavaScript
(initially available as plugin for Acrobat 3.0), or any other types
of embedded contents that can be handled using plug-ins.
PDF 1.6 supports interactive 3D documents embedded in the PDF.
Two PDF files that look similar on a computer
screen may be of very different sizes. For example, a high
resolution raster image takes more space than a low resolution one.
Typically higher resolution is needed for printing documents than
for displaying them on screen. Other things that may increase the
size of a file is embedding full fonts, especially for Asiatic
scripts, and storing text as graphics.
There are fourteen typefaces that have a special
significance to PDF documents:
Times (v3) or Times Roman PS MT (v4.x) (in
regular, italic or oblique, bold, and bold italic)
Courier (in regular, italic or oblique, bold
and bold italic)
Helvetica (v3) or Arial MT (v4.x) (in
regular, italic or oblique, bold and bold italic)
Symbol
Zapf Dingbats
These should always be present (actually present
or a close substitute) and so need not be embedded in a PDF. PDF
viewers must know about the metrics of these fonts. Other fonts may
be substituted if they are not embedded in a PDF.
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