Using novaPDF Lite you can easily create high quality searchable PDF files in an affordable and reliable way from any Windows application. It installs as a printer driver and helps you generate the PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application (you can convert your Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, AutoCad drawings, company?s reports, contracts, workflows, agreements, marketing plans, forms, products list, price list, charts, emails or web pages). Its purpose is to enable users to easily exchange electronic documents, independently of the application in which they were initially created. The resulted PDF files can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer (reader) installed.

This PDF printer driver is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista (32-bit and 64-bit) and requires approximately 10MB of free disk space for the installation. It doesn?t require third party tools to be installed in order to generate the pdf file (like Adobe Acrobat or GhostScript). novaPDF can append/insert content to an existing PDF file.

You can personalize your documents by setting the document information (title, subject, author, keywords). This feature is useful also if you want to publish your PDF files on the Web, as search engines will index your pdf files and use the document information to display it in the results.

novaPDF Lite has a lot of features that allows you to: modify the paper size (or create new custom page sizes for large format printing), modify the resolution (from 72 to 2400 dpi), change page orientation (portrait, landscape), fonts embedding (support for OpenType and TrueType) and lots more. The user interface supports localization, thus using novaPDF Lite in your own language.

Key Features

* Universality. Converts any type of printable documents (DOC, XLS, PPT, EML, HTML, TXT, ...) into searchable PDF files.
* PDF Security. PDF files can be password protected to control whether the PDF can be viewed, printed, modified, copied or annotated. 40-bit and 128-bit encryption levels are supported. For example, you can protect the PDF so that readers cannot copy the text from it.
* PDF bookmarks. Detects headings in the original document and adds corresponding bookmarks in the generated PDF file.
* Merge PDF files. You can append or insert the content of the document being converted, to an existing PDF file.
* Shared network PDF printer. nova PDF Server can be installed on one computer in a network environment, and used by any computer in that network (supports also Terminal Servers and Remote Desktop Connections).
* PDF Overlay. This allows adding the content of the document currently being printed via novaPDF as the background or foreground of an existing PDF file, with options to customize the position of that added content.
* PDF Watermark. Using this PDF creator you can stamp a PDF with custom text or an image and apply transparency, rotation, opacity, color variation or other effects.
* Standalone. Does not require GhostScript or other 3rd party software to create PDF files so you can make PDF files right after you have novaPDF installed.
* PDF links support. Any visible text that starts with "http://", "www", "mailto:", "ftp://" or "file://" in your original document can be converted to clickable active PDF links if you choose so.
* Document information. Possibility to set the title, subject, author, keywords for the PDF.
* Support for TrueType and OpenType fonts. To ensure portability you can embed fonts in the PDF file.
* Private profiles. Define profiles for future use, each with its own settings for page size, resolution, fonts, compression, document info and save settings.
* Public profiles. These profiles are created on the PDF server computer and are automatically propagated to all client computers.
* Import/Export profiles. The printing profiles can be exported or imported into different installations, so that you can easily transfer them from one computer to another.
* Multi-language support. The user interface is translated in more than 20 languages.
* Send PDF via email. Can be configured to send the generated PDF automatically via email.
* Reduce PDF size. This PDF creator supports text and image compression, conversion and image downsampling.
* After save actions. Custom actions can be defined to be performed after the PDF was successfully generated, such as opening (or not) the PDF file with the default viewer once it's created, or running a custom application with given parameters.