COSMI ROM17539 Perfect PDF Creator

Discount Price: $8.77

Features:

• Easy to use and install
• Works with any application
• Converts files to PDF format with just a few clicks
• Embed images, fonts, links and text
• Perform multiple editing functions including changing page order, deleting pages, creating bookmarks, links and more

Customer Reviews:

Something That Actually Does What It Says [Posted on 2006-07-18]
I do a small monthly newsletter for my church using Microsoft Publisher. I send it to our members over email. I found that converting it to a pdf file was the easiest way to insure that everyone that receives it would be able to open it. The problem was finding software that would convert it at a reasonable price. Adobe has an online service that either costs you $10 bucks a month or $99.00 for a year's subscription. Of course you can also buy their software for $299. There is other software (Nuance) that will also convert to pdf for about $50.

If you don't need to edit your document in the PDF format, this software is great. You simply go to the document you want to convert and open it. You can initiate the process by either clicking on "print", then click on "PDF" that appears in your "select printer" window - or click on the small "PDF" notation that appears in your tool bar after installation. This takes you to PERFECT PDF Creator program. You then save the document to be converted either in the software's "documents" or in whatever folder you want.

When you go to your email site and click "attach", just go to the folder you saved your converted document in (it will appear as a PDF file) and select it. If you open it just to check it out, the Adobe Reader kicks in and brings your newly converted document up.

So far, it shows the document just as I had created it in Publisher. Photos look great and no different in the PDF mode.

The only scare I had was when I first used the PERFECT PDF software, my Publisher document came up with certain graphics missing (lined text boxes). I would say at least 90% of what was in the original showed up. All the text and photes and some of the line boxes were there, but not all the text frames. However, I was much relieved when after I coverted the document and opened it up in my email - everything appeared as it should. I don't know why it didn't all show up in the software - maybe there is something that can be adjusted.

Anyway, this was easy to install and very easy to use. I especially love the price. I highly recommend it.

Take your money and ... [Posted on 2006-10-01]
...walk into your bathroom. Lift commode lid. Place money in bowl. Flush. Then go out and buy something that works, all the while saying to yourself, "You get what you pay for" and, alternately, "Caveat Emptor."

Like your PDFs minus the graphics? Buy this. Like your fonts screwed up? Step right over here.

What a joke this thing is. Thankfully I got it on sale. There oughta be a law.

Bait and switch [Posted on 2006-10-18]
The box may say "PDF Creator", but the program you now get is "PDF Master", which is a different program, with different and fewer capabilities. And don't even think of trying their soi disant "technical support". Unanswered emails. Three hour phone call queues. Surly "assistants" who insist that the two programs really are the same even when their own literature says otherwise.

Save yourself time, money and aggravation - don't buy this. Make your life really easy - just don't buy ANYTHING from Cosmi!

Worthless [Posted on 2006-11-15]
Dont waste your money. There are so many problems I dont know where to begin. It chokes on large files. It failed to embed fonts, making the rendering useless. It is sloooooow.

Excellent low-cost solution for limited needs [Posted on 2007-05-06]
If your needs are limited to simple converting of simple documents to PDF - that is low cost, simple and enough. I did not use it for complex graphics (simple logos etc. only), neither for web pages. If you are Win user without any PDF converter, and using MS products (usually without PDF option), this is good. I did not use it for very long documents. Reports generated in XL, which you do not want to be accidentally modifiable which you send, letters and bus communication - all that is good and easy. I used a free converter before, it worked, but prefer this one, also using at work is not OK for most free stuff, and that proved enough for my needs at work, the cost little enough, agreeable to most businesses to pay when they can benefit from better reporting and business communication (before certain things I was advised to send by email to Mac users). After using this PDF Creator at home, I got another license (another box) for work. I give it 5 stars for what it is and does for me for the money. If you need sophistication, or other uses, it is beyond the scope of this review and my knowledge.

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