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[Extended Characters] [Extended Characters: Form Filler] [Font Manager] [Editor] [Editor: Code] [Editor: Word Processor] [Text Tool] [Compare Text In Files] [Convert Text To PDF] [Convert: HTML To Text And Tables]Extended Characters
Extended Character Map (v 1.41)
Company: AriTech Development Indonesia
Author: Sony Arianto Kurniawan
(Freeware) LFW (v 1.41)
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32_freeware.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000
Languages: English
Description: Extended Character Map is like the Windows Character Map utility but uses much bigger, easier-to-see characters. The utility is especially useful for viewing the pictures in a symbol or Dingbat font. Characters can be seen up to 100pt size. No more squinting at Webding characters trying to figure out "is that a race car or a textile factory?". The keystroke name is displayed in the program's status bar. The Decimal/Hex/Oct/Binary values are also displayed. Additionally, you can view the fonts with one or more attributes selected (Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikeout). Using ExtendedCharacterMap, any character or series of characters can be quickly copied to the clipboard.
Program description; download:
v 1.41 (1998- )
[ extendedcharactermap141.zip (190 KB)]
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/extendedcharactermap141.html
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-20) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: extendedcharactermap141.zip
Extended Characters: Form Filler
AllChars
Company: --
Author: Jeroen Laarhoven (original author); Joachim Breuer
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/allchars/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; French (user manuals available in Russian and French)
Description: AllChars is a tool that makes non-keyboard characters (accents, typos, currency symbols, etc.) easily accessible within any Windows application. Just type the Ctrl-key followed by two characters that in combination specify the character. AllChars also supports macros. You can type short names, resulting in AllChars sending long text bits to your application. Support for macros include secure macros for logins, insert date/time strings and more.
Home page:
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/allchars/
download page:
v 4.0.321 (2007-07-25)
[ AllChars-4.0.321.msi (715 KB)]
[ AllChars-4.0.321.zip (383 KB)]
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/download/
alternate download page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=188828
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-08) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Font Manager
The Font Thing
Company: --
Author: Sue Fisher
(Betaware) (Freeware)
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: With The Font Thing you can: Browse installed and uninstalled fonts; Browse fonts in subfolders as a single combined list; View sample text and individual characters in your choice of colours; Change sample text "on the fly" or easily switch between your own standard text samples; View detailed font information; Print font samples; Associate notes with fonts; Install or uninstall any number of fonts at once; Load (and unload) any number of fonts for temporary use; Copy or delete any number of font files at once; Rename font files to avoid file name conflicts; Filter fonts according to their type; Group fonts into collections for easier management; Use multiple font windows simultaneously for easy font comparison and management.
Home page:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft.html
download page:
v 0.80 (beta 2) (1999-12-22)
[ tft.zip (483 KB)]
[ tfti.zip (1126 KB) with installer]
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~scef/tft/tftdownloadmain.html
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-20) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
Editor
MetaPad
Company: --
Author: Alexander Davidson
(Donationware) (free)
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/XP
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Metapad is a small, fast, 32-bit Notepad replacement. It includes all of Notepad's features and much, much more - without sacrificing any of Notepad's speed! Plenty of features for casual use and simple programming tasks alike. These include unlimited file size, drag and drop editing, auto-indent, support for Mac/Unix text files, enhanced find and replace, external viewers and more than 50 keyboard shortcuts. Metapad also features hyperlink support, favorites menu, stay on top window mode, custom font and background colors, a rich set of formatting commands and more. Additionally, you can set 10 quick buffers to paste frequently-used snippets of text. Recent additions include transparent mode and native Windows XP theme support. For spellchecking, one of Metapad's viewers can be configured for use with the freeware Aspell (http:/aspell.sourceforge.net/).
Home page:
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
download page:
v 3.51 (2005-11-27)
[ metapad351.zip (46 KB)]
[ metapad351LE.zip (44 KB) light edition]
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2007-02-13) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: metapad351.zip metapad351LE.zip
NoteTab Light
Company: Fookes Software
Author: Eric G.V. Fookes
(Liteware) (free)
http://www.notetab.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: NoteTab Light is the ultimate free Notepad replacement and a capable HTML editor. This slick application makes text editing a breeze. Move quickly around a stack of large files with a simple tabbed interface. Format your text to your heart's content. Write with the font of your choice, fixed-width or proportional. Key Features: * Open and edit many documents at once * Capable of editing huge text files * Text drag-and-drop editing * AutoCorrect/Auto-replace mode * Clip tool for quick and easy text insertion * Capture text sent to Clipboard If you need to cut and paste chunks from a pile of files, forget the Clipboard: you can set up a Paste Board file to save text clips automatically. Strip HTML tags from your files. Call up complete document statistics instantly. Use powerful, system-wide search and replace tools. Speed up your work with text macros: you can use them as shortcuts, or even to auto-replace those persistent typos. Handy sample macro libraries are supplied, and you can easily build your own. Make the most of NoteTab's many options to suit your own workstyle.
Home page:
http://www.notetab.com/
download page:
v 5.5 (2007-10-04)
[ NoteTab_Setup.exe (2374 KB) with installer]
[ ntfree.zip (2383 KB) with installer]
http://www.notetab.com/download.php
download page:
v 4.9.2.2 (2003-01-15)
[ tiny_notetab.zip (953 KB) no install]
http://www.fookes.com/ftp/free/
(desc. rev.: 2007-10-25) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: NoteTab_Setup.exe ntfree.zip tiny_notetab.zip
yWriter
Company: Spacejock Software
Author: Simon Haynes
(Freeware)
http://www.spacejock.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Languages: English
Description: This novel writing program has evolved over the years into a powerful piece of software, allowing you to break your book into chapters and scenes. Tracking progress is easy with the 'status' flags you can apply to each scene: outline, draft, 1st edit, 2nd edit or done. Because losing work is the pits, this program will also create autobackups by date and time, as frequently as once a minute if desired. These can be browsed at will, making it easy to revert to an earlier version of your work. Includes a text editor, project overview, daily change log and much more. I've used this program to write three complete novels of 90,000+ words each. I would never have finished them without it.
Home Page:
http://www.spacejock.com/
Program description:
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter4.html
download page:
v 4.0.27 (2007-12-14)
[ yWriter4Full.exe (2629 KB)]
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter4_Download.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-11) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: yWriter2.exe
Editor: Code
EditPad Lite
Company: Just Great Software Co. Ltd.
Author: Jan Goyvaerts
(Liteware) (free for personal use/ some non-commercial uses)
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista Languages: English; Dutch; Italian; German; Portuguese
Description: EditPad Lite Offers You Some Very Interesting Features: * You can open as many files in EditPad at a time as you want. * You change between the open files by clicking on their tabs. * EditPad does not impose a limit on the size of files you can open and edit with it. Also, the maximum length of a single line is not limited. * You will enjoy EditPad's unlimited undo and redo. You can even undo changes after saving them, as long as you did not close the file. * EditPad reads and writes UNIX (LF only) and Mac (CR only) text files (in addition to DOS/Windows CR+LF files). * With EditPad you can directly edit Unicode text files and text files encoded in a variety of legacy code pages. * If you run EditPad again when there is already an instance running, the file(s) you wish to edit will be opened by the existing EditPad window. If you do need more instances, simply pick View; New editor from the menu. * Block functions: save parts of your text to disk and insert a file in the current text. * You can specify many print settings: font, margins, headers/footers, etc. and immediately see the effects in the print preview. * You have the option to keep the EditPad window on top of all other windows. * When you close an unsaved file, EditPad will either warn you, or automatically save the file as you prefer. * Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened. * EditPad puts an icon in the system tray that remains visible, even if EditPad is closed. You can disable this feature * EditPad fully supports double byte character systems (DBCS) so you can edit texts written in Far East languages, such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean. * Many settings such as word wrap, line numbering and auto indent can be made for each file type individually. You could activate word wrap but not auto indent when editing a plain text file, and just the other way around when editing source code. You can also define your own file types which will be used to build the filters for open and save dialog boxes. * Configure EditPad's appearance to your own taste and eyesight. Select the colors, font face and font size that you like. Make text cursor highly visible by selecting its size, color and blinking style. Make the mouse pointer easy to spot by choosing its shape and colors. * Uppercase, lowercase, invert case and initial caps conversion NOTES: EditPad Pro's help file is included with the EditPad Lite download. Some features mentioned in the help file are not available in the Lite version.
Home Page; download:
v 6.3.1 (2007-08-16)
[ SetupEditPadLite.exe (3183 KB) Windows (English)]
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html
(desc. rev.: 2007-08-18) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: SetupEditPadLite.exe
Notepad++
Company: --
Author: Don HO
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages. COMMENTS (by BeAr): Multipurpose text (ANSI, UTF-8, CS-2) editor, developed on basis of the Scintilla engine. Supports tabbed windows, syntax highlighting, bookmarks, folding, auto completion, and zooming. Text input direction can be changed to RTL (e.g. for Arabic, Hebrew). Additional functionality provided with plugins. The main program already contains plugins for advanced text editing, visualization, and conversation, a function browser, a file manager and a hex editor.
Powerful search functionality is provided by the main program (RegEx search and replace, incremental search, highlight all, find in files) and extended with a plugin (multiline RegEx). Recurring tasks may be simplified using the internal macro recorder. Notepad++ is highly customizable with external configuration files, styler configurator, user define dialog for new languages, and shortcut mapper.
Home page:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/
download page:
v 4.7.3 (2008-01-06)
[ npp.4.7.3.Installer.exe (2025 KB)]
[ npp.4.7.3.bin.zip (1399 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=95717
(desc.: 2008-01-08) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: npp.4.0.2.Installer.exe npp.4.0.2.bin.zip
PSPad
Company: --
Author: Jan Fiala
(Donationware) (free)
http://www.pspad.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP NOTES: No registry entries. A no install version is available. The last version that supports Win 95 ( v 4.2.5) is available.
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: PSPad - a code editor that is useful for people who: * work with plain text - the editor has a wealth of formatting functions, including a spell checker * create web pages - as a web authoring editor, PSPad contains many unique tools that save your time * want to use a good IDE for their compiler - PSPad catches and parses compiler output, integrates external help files, compares versions and much more. There is no complex installation process, PSPad is ready to work immediately without requiring customization. The editor supports many file types and languages, with syntax highlighting. There are macros, clip files and templates to automate repetative tasks. Integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, Code page conversion... these are just some of the many features that PSPad offers.* Supported file types: C++, Cobol, MS-Dos batch, CSS, Forth, Fortran, FoxPro, HTML, XHTML, INI, Inno Setup, Java, JavaScript, KixStart, Object Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, RSS, SQL, TCL/TK, Unix ShellScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, X86 assembler and other 120+ languages included as user highlighter definition NOTES: Spell check dictionaries are available on the download page..
Home page:
http://www.pspad.com/
download page:
v 4.5.3 (2298) (2007-11-25)
[ pspad453inst_en.exe (3348 KB)]
[ pspad453en.cab (3436 KB) no install]
Spell-check dictionary
[ en_dic.cab (870 KB) English v 2.1.0]
http://www.pspad.com/en/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-06) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: pspad452inst_en.exe pspad452en.cab en_dic.cab
TED Notepad
Company: --
Author: Juraj Simlovic
(Donationware) (free)
http://jsimlo.sk/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista NOTES: No installation, no registry keys versions are available.
Languages: English; other languages in alpha version only
Description: TED Notepad is a fast and small plain-text editor and notepad replacement. Provides many innovative features and tools for quick and advanced editing, all on hotkeys. Fetaures include second search, selective search, line and word completions, more clipboards, favourites, mru, relative goto, extensive text statistics, full view scrolling, system tray minimization, drag and drop, dual font, .LOG, etc. Tools include several types of search&replace, case and newlines converters, several types of indentation/quoting, unindentation/unquoting (even from the end of lines) and tabifying, tools for text/lines/words reversing, lines uniqueing, the best sorting and columns cutting out there, wrapping and unwrapping, etc. Also offers Filters Architecture, for any user-defined textual programs like grep. Fully supports Unicode characters and bi-directional editing. Recognizes Unicode, Utf-8, Ansi; Win, Unix and Mac file formats.
Home page:
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/
TED Notepad Manual:
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/manual/
Download page:
v 5.0.3 Final (2007-01-11)
[ tnp503le_uni.exe (157 KB) Win NT/2000/XP/Vista]
[ tnp503le_uni.zip (113 KB) Win NT/2000/XP/Vista]
[ tnp503le_9x.exe (156 KB) Win 95/98/Me]
[ tnp503le_9x.zip (114 KB) Win 95/98/Me]
http://jsimlo.sk/notepad/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-08) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: tnp503le_uni.exe tnp503le_uni.zip tnp503le_9x.exe tnp503le_9x.zip
Editor: Word Processor
AbiWord
Company: SourceGear Corporation
Author: Dom Lachowicz
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: AbiWord is a lean yet full-featured word processor. It features a familiar-looking interface, basic character formatting, paragraph alignment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo, find and replace, and image support. It can also import Microsoft Word 97 and RTF (Rich Text Format) documents, as well as support headers/footers, superscript/subscript, widow/orphan control and newspaper-style columns. Many plug-ins are available. Support for tables is currently limited.
Home page:
http://www.abisource.com/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/abiword/
download page:
v 2.4.6 (2006-11-08)
[ abiword-setup-2.4.6.exe (5284 KB) Windows]
http://www.abisource.com/download/index.phtml
(desc. rev.: 2006-12-30) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: abiword-setup-2.4.6.exe
Atlantis Nova
Company: Rising Sun Solutions
Author: --
(Liteware) (free)
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/download/atlant10n_en.exe
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Languages: English; French
Description: Atlantis is designed to provide the power and functionality to satisfy the most demanding word processing tasks with the greatest of ease. With its small size and memory footprint, Atlantis will easily launch from a floppy for maximum portability if necessary. A whole array of functions give you complete control over the handling and viewing of documents. Wheel mouse fans will be delighted to find support for their mouse advanced functions. The Zoom function will provide instant adequate magnification. A comprehensive innovative dual set of standard toolbar commands (Main & Alternative) provides instant access to most Atlantis commands. In addition to the usual text editing facilities (Column Block selection, Drag & Drop editing), a whole array of formatting commands are available, whole files and pictures can be inserted, allowing you perfect control over the layout and style of your documents. Support for Styles is comprehensive. The 200 Hot Keys will give power users all the instant control they require from the keyboard. Atlantis provides a special facility for storing clipboard items, the Clippy Bank. Correction is always possible. All editing can be undone or redone. Atlantis will create backup files of original versions of your documents.
Direct download:
v 1.0.0.69 (2007-08-16)
[ atlant10n_en.exe (767 KB) English]
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/download/atlant10n_en.exe
Home page ($ware):
http://atlantiswordprocessor.com/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-03) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: atlant10n_en.exe
Crypt Edit (v 4.10)
Company: PolySoft Solutions
Author: Ulyanov Ilya Andreevich
(Freeware) LFW (v 4.10) discontinued
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32_freeware.html
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Crypt Edit is a very powerful multidocument word processor with enhanced cryptography features. It can easily save texts as HTML, DOC, RTF, ASCII (DOS, WIN, UNIX, MAC), WRI, UNICODE and PRT (Protected Text Format with 3 security levels), encrypt/decrypt binary files with compression, create desktop shortcuts for your documents, insert OLE-objects and pictures (gif, jpeg, bmp, emf, wmf). The program includes an advanced e-mail client with an address book, a spelling checker, a built-in clipboard viewer, various converters (Lowercase, Uppercase, ROT-13, OEM etc.), a character map, an autoformat tool and much more. Microsoft IntelliMouse is also supported. Other notable features are several numbering and underline styles, minimization to the system tray, a drag-and-drop interface, lines sorting operations and html-highlighting. NOTES: Plug-ins (autoscroll; conversion; hex editor and internet import) language packs and dictionary files are available on the download page.
Program description; download:
v 4.1 (2001-04-14)
[ cedit.zip (1.1 MB)]
v 4.1 Update (2001-06-23)
[ update41.zip (535 Kb)]
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/ce/ceditdl.html
Home page:
http://polyedit.com/
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-24) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: cedit.zip update41.zip
Text Tool
UnxUtils
Company: --
Author: Karl M. Syring
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: GNU utilities for Win32 - some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools. COMMENTS by BeAr: Compilation of common GNU commandline utilities to native Win32. Compared to other implementations, the UnxUtils compilation consists of very stable and fast tools with exceptional support of command line switches. The installation directory should be added to the Windows search path to use the tools from anywhere. Look here for a description: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519 (The Path variable consists of a list of fully qualified directory names, separated by semicolons.) The collection contains: agrep.exe, ansi2knr.exe, basename.exe, bc.exe, bison.exe, bunzip2.exe, bzip2.exe, bzip2recover.exe, cat.exe, chgrp.exe, chmod.exe, chown.exe, cksum.exe, cmp.exe, comm.exe, compress.exe, cp.exe, csplit.exe, cut.exe, date.exe, dc.exe, dd.exe, df.exe, diff.exe, diff3.exe, dircolors.exe, dirname.exe, du.exe, echo.exe, egrep.exe, env.exe, expand.exe, expr.exe, factor.exe, fgrep.exe, find.exe, flex.exe, fmt.exe, fold.exe, fsplit.exe, gawk.exe, gclip.exe, gplay.exe, grep.exe, gsar.exe, gunzip.exe, gzip.exe, head.exe, id.exe, indent.exe, install.exe, join.exe, jwhois.exe, less.exe, lesskey.exe, ln.exe, logname.exe, ls.exe, m4.exe, make.exe, makedepend.exe, makemsg.exe, man.exe, md5sum.exe, mkdir.exe, mkfifo.exe, mknod.exe, mv.exe, mvdir.exe, nl.exe, od.exe, paste.exe, patch.exe, pathchk.exe, pclip.exe, pr.exe, printenv.exe, printf.exe, ptx.exe, pwd.exe, recode.exe, rm.exe, rman.exe, rmdir.exe, sdiff.exe, sed.exe, seq.exe, sh.exe, sha1sum.exe, shar.exe, sleep.exe, sort.exe, split.exe, stego.exe, su.exe, sum.exe, sync.exe, tac.exe, tail.exe, tar.exe, tee.exe, test.exe, touch.exe, tr.exe, tsort.exe, type.exe, uname.exe, unexpand.exe, uniq.exe, unrar.exe, unshar.exe, unzip.exe, uudecode.exe, uuencode.exe, wc.exe, wget.exe, which.exe, whoami.exe, xargs.exe, yes.exe, zcat.exe, zip.exe, zsh.exe
Home page; download:
v (2003-04-14)
[ UnxUtils.zip (3287 KB)]
updates (2003-10-25)
[ UnxUpdates.zip (859 KB)]
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net
alternate download page:
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/win95/unix/
(desc.: rev. 2007-02-11) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: UnxUtils.zip UnxUpdates.zip
Compare Text In Files
ExamDiff
Company: PrestoSoft
Author: --
(Liteware) (free)
http://www.prestosoft.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: ExamDiff is a tool for visual file comparison. It has a number of simple and convenient features that many users have been asking for a long time from a file comparison tool. Key Features: * Automatically detects file changes. * One push re-compare function. * Drag and drop support. * Easy editing of the first and second files, by spawning an external editor of choice. * Saves the file differences in a standard UNIX DIFF file. * Easy navigation through the differences. * "Search" command. * Fully customizable. * Adjustable pane splitter with smooth synchronized scrolling. * Extensive command line interface.
Home page:
http://www.prestosoft.com/
Program description; download:
v 1.7 (2006-12-17)
[ ed17_setup.exe (503 KB)]
[ ed17.zip (224 KB) no install]
http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-24) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: ed17_setup.exe ed17.zip
Convert Text To PDF
FreePDF and FreePDF XP
Company: --
Author: Stefan Heinz
(Donationware) (free)
http://freepdfxp.de/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003 NOTES: Requires msvbvm50.dll on Win2003
Languages: English; German and other (FreePdf XP is freely customizable)
Description: FreePDF and FreePDF XP provide a graphical user interface (GUI) for GhostScript.
COMMENTS by BeAr: Easy to control GUI wrapper for GhostScript, RedMon, and the Windows printing system to create *.pdf files from any application with printer output. Provides support for the conversation of *.ps files (Windows Shell extension) and for combining *.pdf files. Profiles can be defined for different resolutions, color and font handling, encryption, watermarks (needs PdfTk: www.accesspdf.com/pdftk),... Output as picture (BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG) is also supported. NOTES: GhostScript must be installed before FreePDF.
Home page (in German):
http://freepdfxp.de/
Home page (English translation):
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshbox.de
download page:
FreePDF XP v 3.07 (2006-05-19)
[ FreePDFXP3.07.EXE (826 KB) Win 2000/XP]
FreePDF v 2.11 (2004-01-11)
[ freepdf211.exe (1005 KB) Win 95/98/ME/NT]
http://shbox.de/fpx732.htm
(desc. rev.: 2007-02-12) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: FreePDFXP3.07.EXE freepdf211.exe
GhostScript
Company: artofcode LLC and Artifex Software (originally written by Aladdin Enterprises)
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: AFPL or GNU GPL)
http://www.ghostscript.com/awki
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista NOTES: Command line interface. A Postscript printer driver is required. A 64-bit version is available.
Other OS:Macintosh; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides: * An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in; * An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities; * The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa; and * A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language.
Home page:
http://www.ghostscript.com/awki
Project page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/
download page:
GPL v 8.61 (2007-11-21)
[ gs861w32.exe (12469 KB) Windows]
AFPL v 8.54 (2006-05-17)
[ gs854w32.exe (12669 KB) Windows]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1897
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: gs854w32-gpl.exe gs854w32.exe
PDFCreator
Company: Sector7g
Author: --
(Donationwareware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL) no toolbar version = Spyware-free version
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; German; language packs for other languages
Description: PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine
Home page:
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
download page:
v 0.9.3 (2006-08-25)
[ zPDFCreator-0_9_3-AD_DeploymentPackage-WithoutToolbar.msi (15541 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57796
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: zPDFCreator-0_9_3-AD_DeploymentPackage-WithoutToolbar.msi
Convert: HTML To Text And Tables
HTMStrip
Company: Wayne Software
Author: Bruce Guthrie
(Freeware)
http://users.erols.com/waynesof/bruce.htm
Windows OS:
Other OS: DOS
Languages: English
Description: HTMSTRIP: Processes and removes embedded HTML commands from Web pages downloaded from the Web. Reflows paragraphs, processes tables, etc as straight ASCII text. Can function on individually-saved pages or else process your entire disk cache. Ideal tool for resending via e-mail or dozens of different uses. Written and compiled in DOS, not Windows. HTMSTRIP should work fine under Windows but forget handling things like long file names under Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2000, and WinNT. COMMENTS: Very configurable - via both ini-file and command line switches. Handles tables very well!
Home Page; download:
v 0208 (2002-08)
[ HTMS0208.ZIP (126 KB)]
http://users.erols.com/waynesof/bruce.htm
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-21) desc.link ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a
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