PDFill – Collection of 15 Useful Free PDF Tools, PDF Writer and Image Writer & PDF Editor

Please note that this article was 'send-to' here from the following Google Reader article. 

All credit goes to the author, Mayur.

PDFill package contains the complete PDFill applications including the FREE PDF Tools, the FREE PDF and Image Writer and evaluation copy of PDFill PDF Editor. Check below about these 3 programs:


1) PDFill PDF Tools -


PDFill PDF Tools is a free suite without any Watermarks, which provides the world’s most powerful and useful PDF tools for FREE. It offers many tools for PDFs like Split, Merge, Rotate, Encrypt PDF, Watermark PDF files, add or edit PDF information, etc. All the 15 tools are accessible from one program, making it definitely easy to use.






Following is the list of 15 Tools included in PDFill PDF Tools along with their function:

• 1. Merge - Merge two or more PDF files into a single PDF file.

• 2. Split or Reorder – Extract pages from a PDF file into a new file. Reorder the page sequence into a new file.

• 3. Encrypt and Decrypt with Security Options – Protect PDF files with passwords and prevent PDF files from being printed, copied, changed, filled, extracted, signed, assembled or merged. Supports Adobe Standard 40-bit Encryption and Adobe Advanced 128-bit Encryption.

• 4. Rotate and Crop – Rotate a PDF page by 0, 90, 180 and 270 degree. Crop a page to modify its layout of Print or View by specifying its margins.

• 5. Reformat – Put multiple pages into one page to save paper and inks when printing hard copies. Add note lines for handout.

• 6. Header and Footer – Add Headers and Footers to present information, such as date, time, page numbers, or the title of the document, in the top or bottom margins of a document.

• 7. Watermark by Stylized Text – Add Stylized Text Stamp.

• 8. Watermark by Image – Add Stamp using image file (bmp, jpg, gif, png, tiff, and wmf).

• 9. Convert Images to PDF – Convert images (bmp, jpg, gif, png, tiff, and wmf) into a PDF file with layout options.

• 10. Convert PDF into images – Save PDF pages into images (png, jpg, bmp, gif, wmf, and tiff) with DPI options.

• 11. PDF Form Fields: Delete, Flatten, List – Delete, Flatten or List the PDF Form Fields inside a PDF file.

• 12. Convert PostScript (PS) File into PDF – Covert PS files into PDF files so Adobe Reader can read them.

• 13. Add Information – Add information (title, author, subject, keywords, created, creator, producer, version) to PDF documents.

• 14. Free Scanner – Scan your paper form or photo as an image file (PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF, GIF) or a PDF file.

• 15. Create Transparent Image – Create a transparent image with options to adjust transparency options

2) PDFill PDF Writer and Image Writer (FREE) -

PDF Writer allows you to create highest quality PDF from ANY printable windows application including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Cad, and more. A PDF Button can be added into Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel using the ‘Advanced’ button to save PDF in one click. It also offers numerous PDF saving options.





Image Writer is installed as a virtual printer driver which allows to Print your document as an image file (PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF, GIF) with options for resolution, alpha bits, rotation, flip, output, and registry control.


3) PDFill PDF Editor


The evaluation copy of PDFill PDF Editor is also included which offers rich and powerful tools to edit a PDF file without requiring Adobe Acrobat. The free evaluation version produces watermark edited PDF files.





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Requires: Free Adobe Reader, GhostScript 8.63 and Sun Java.
Supports: Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7 (32 & 64 Bit)

[Updated 24dec2013]
4) Online PDF filler http://www.pdffiller.com

How to turn non-resizeable windows into resizeable

DigiTallis has a neat utility, called REsizeEnable that allows you to convert any non-resizable window into a resizeable one.


Simply download the ZIP file, extract into a dir and run. An icon will appear in the taskbar to let you know the app is running.


Open any window and you will notice that you can now resize it!


ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!

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Google Wave: The complete guide.

You must have heard about Google Wave by now and are, surely, keen to try it out!

Well, I can't help you with that, you'll need to get an invite first and they are about as rare as functioning brain cells in George W. Bush's head!

However, if you wanted to learn what it does and what it is, scouring the net will give you lots of info. Lots!

But you probably still couldn't stand in front of a roomful of people and describe it. (Yeap, it's that revolutionary!)

Visit this web site and find out all about it!

ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!

Make a multi-boot CD/DVD

For a few days now, I've been trying to find out how to make a boot DVD that contains a number of ISO images.
I wanted to put a number of anti-virus rescue CDs onto one DVD and have some kind of boot menu on it, so that when it boots it gives me a list of ISO images I can boot from.

You'd think it was easy, wouldn't you!

There is a lot on the web about MagicISO; it supposedly does just that.

I have no doubt that it does, I just haven't been able to find any info on how to do it.
I have seen a few references that talk about how to put a bunch of different versions of Windoze on a DVD.

That'd be about as usefull as getting a bunch of diseases, all in one cup.

Convenient, I am sure, but most undesirable.

However, I did find something that goes quite some way there!

It is called Sardu, which stands for Shardana Antivirus Rescue Disk Utility.

It allows you to build an ISO that is made up of a number of other ISOs.

It also allows you to make a bootable USB out of it.

It doesn't quite do everything I want, i.e. use any number of any type of ISO images.

Instead, it caters for the following specific ISO images:

(note that the filename in parenthesis is the exact name of the ISO image corresponding to that menu item)

1. Antivirus
1. Avira (rescue_system-common*.iso)
   
2. Bit defender (BitDefenderRescueCD*.iso)
   
3. Dr. Web (minDrWebLiveCD*.iso)
   
4. F-Secure (f-secure-rescue-cd*.iso)
   
5. GData (Gdata_*.iso)
   
6. Kaspersky (kav_rescue_2008.iso)
   
7. Panda Security (*safecd*.iso)
   
8. VirusBlokAda (vbarescue-beta.iso)
   
2. Utilties
   
1. Floppy Win98SE (Windows98_SE.img)
   
2. CloneZilla (clonezilla-live-*.iso)
   
3. GParted (gparted-live-*.iso)
   
4. NT Pwd (cd080*.iso)
   
5. Parted Magic (pmagic-*.iso)
   
6. System Rescue CD (systemrescuecd-x86*.iso)
   
7. Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD*.iso)
   
3. Linux
1. Austrumi (austrumi*.iso)
   
2. Damn Small Linux (dsl-*.iso)
   
3. NimbleX (NimbleX-2008.iso)
   
4. Puppy Linux (pup*.iso)
   
5. Slax (slax-*.iso)
   
4. Windows PE
1. Live XP (LiveXP.iso)
   
2. MegaLabCD (MegaLabCD.iso)
   
3. Windows PE (pebuilder.iso)
   
4. UBCD4Win (U_B_C_D_4_WIN.iso)
   
5. VistaPE  (VistaPE*.iso)
   

Here is how it works.

1. Download SARDU
2. Extract it into a dir. For this example, the dir is E:\dooda
3. You will end up with the following directory tree
1. e:\dooda                       (contains sardu.exe among others)
2. e:\dooda\ISO                 (this is where you need to copy your ISO images)
3. e:\dooda\ISO created      (this is where it will store the ISO it makes)
   

You can either download the ISOs you need by visiting the sites shown in the table above or start SARDU and click on the name of the ISO you want to download.

If you download the ISO, make sure you put it into the ISO directory, as shown above (cyan-coloured entry).

Also make sure the ISO name is exactly as specified above.

Once everything is in place, start SARDU. It will detect all the ISOs that are in the ISO dir (but will ignore any that are not in the list of supported ISOs).

It will place a check-mark next to the name of the corresponding app in the GUI. You can un-check it, if you wish.

Go through all the tabs in the SARDU GUI and select/deselect the ISOs you want in your final image.

When you've done that, simply click on the MAKE ISO button, wait a minute and, voila, you are now the proud owner of a multi-boot ISO, with all the goodies you selected!

I have not had a chance to test the bootable USB option yet. I'll be buying a 2GB USB stick tomorrow and will try it then.

I believe the author is Davide Costa.

Bravo ragazzo e mille grazie!

This utility is great!

ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!

HashCalc - calculate MD5, CRC32 and other hashes

HashCalc is a neat tool that, given a file or text string, can calculate quite a number of different digital signatures for it.

Among others, it does: CRC32, MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256 etc.

It is a free tool and the author is: Slavasoft

Well done guys!

ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!

FastCopy - a neat (fast!) copy utility

FasCopy is a smart copy utility that copies files very quickly. It also supports file moves and deletes.
It is clever enough to detect whether the copy is from and to the same HDD and uses a different copy strategy accordingly.

As stated on its web site,

Diff HDD	Reading and writing are processed respectively in parallel by another thread.
Same HDD	Reading are processed until the big buffer fills. When the big buffer filled, writing are started and processed in bulk.

Please visit the home site for more info.

FileMenu utility - handy Windows Explorer extension

This handy utility will add a number of useful functions to the Windows Explorer window, as shown in the image below.

Some of the functions I like are:

• Command line from here
• Copy to ...
• Move to ...
• Copy Path (very handy!)
• Change time
• Run with arguments
• and many more
  

Please visit the home site for more info.

Freeware utilities, programmer tools etc... lots!

I've just had a look at the NirSoft web site and found an amazing number of free and very useful utilities, programmer tools and all sorts of other goodies!
Here is a very small sample of what is there:

• Network Monitoring Tools
• SmartSniff: TCP/IP Sniffer - Capture TCP/IP packets on your network adapter and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers.
• CurrPorts: TCP/IP Connections Viewer - Freeware tool that displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your local computer.
• AdapterWatch - displays useful information about your network adapters: IP addresses, Hardware address, WINS servers, DNS servers, MTU value, Number of bytes received or sent, The current transfer speed, and more...

• Internet Related Utilities
  
  • IPNetInfo - Find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more.
  • IECookiesView: Cookies Viewer/Manager for IE - View/Delete/Modify the cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer. Read More >>
  • IEHistoryView - View/Delete the URLs that you visited in the last few days.
  • HTMLAsText (HTML To Text Converter) - Freeware utility that converts HTML files to text files.
  • WhoisThisDomain - Get information about a registered domain.
  • SiteShoter - Take a screenshot of a Web site.
  • WebVideoCap - Capture Flash video (.flv) and RTSP/MMS streams from Video Web sites.

There is a lot more there, go and have a look!

ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!