What edition to choose?

Desktop, Server or Site licenses?
novaPDF comes in three editions: Lite, Standard and Professional.

novaPDF Lite Desktop implements the basic functionality of a printer driver, giving users the possibility to create high-quality searchable PDF files from any Windows application. Main features:
  • Customizable resolution - choose any resolution from 72 dpi to 2400 dpi
  • Predefined/custom page sizes - choose a default page size (like Letter, Legal, A3, A4, A5, A6, ...) or define your own
  • Document information - include title, subject, author, keywords in your PDF file
  • Multilanguage support - choose a language for the user interface
novaPDF Lite Server has all the features of novaPDF Lite plus:
  • Network printer sharing - can be installed on one computer in a network environment and used by any other computer in that network
  • Save PDF to Server - can save the PDF from a client computer directly to the server
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novaPDF Standard Desktop has all the features of novaPDF Lite plus:
  • Create private profiles - Define different profiles for future use, each with its own settings for page size, resolution, fonts, compression, document info and save settings
  • Graphics options - You can compress, downsample or convert text and graphics to reduce PDF size
  • Fonts embedding and font subsets embedding - Fonts (TrueType and OpenType) can be embedded in the PDF file to ensure perfect portability.
  • PDF Watermarks - You can define multiple text or image watermarks and add them to individual pages or the entire PDF document.
  • Page Left, Right, Top and Bottom Margins - You can set a margin region that will remain empty when printing.
  • Page zoom (1%-400% zoom factor) - You can zoom a page if you need advanced settings of how the document should be positioned on the PDF page.
novaPDF Standard Server has all the features of novaPDF Lite Server and novaPDF Standard plus:
  • Public Profiles - Define profiles on the server computer and they will automatically be propagated to all client computers.
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novaPDF Professional Desktop has all the features of novaPDF Standard plus:
  • 40 bit/128 bit encryption - full 40-bit and 128-bit encryption is supported by novaPDF and the user is able to control whether the PDF can be viewed, printed, modified, copied or annotated
  • create PDF links - any visible text that starts with "http://", "www", "mailto:", "ftp://" or "file://" in your original document can be converted to clickable PDF links if you choose so (hidden links and internal links are not converted).
  • send PDF via email - once created, the PDF file can be automatically sent via email to different recipients, either using the default email client or directly from novaPDF (using SMTP configuration).
  • PDF Bookmarks - novaPDF can detect the headings in the printed document and add bookmarks in the generated PDF files. You have to define the text attributes for the document headings (font, size, style, color) and for the generated bookmarks.
novaPDF Professional Server has all the features of novaPDF Standard Server and novaPDF Professional.
novaPDF Professional

For a detailed feature comparison list between novaPDF Lite, Standard and Professional, please visit the Feature Matrix section.

Desktop, Server or Site licenses?

Server licenses give the possibility to control the usage of novaPDF printer driver, and allow shared network printing, features that are not available for desktop licenses owners.
Site licenses give the possibility to install novaPDF on unlimited servers and share it with unlimited number of clients (within the location restrictions imposed by the license type), whereas server licenses allow you to install novaPDF only on one server and share it with limited number of clients (limited by the number of licenses).

Desktop license
  • Description. By purchasing a desktop license you can install one copy of novaPDF Desktop on one of your computers.
  • Limitation. You cannot share novaPDF Desktop as a printer, use it through Remote Desktop Connections or install it on Terminal Servers - these are available only for server licenses.

Server license
  • Description. By purchasing server licenses you can install one copy of novaPDF Server on one of your computers, and access it as a shared printer from a number of your computers equal to the number of licenses purchased. You can also use it through Remote Desktop Connections or install it on Terminal Servers.
  • Limitation. You can install novaPDF Server only on one server and share it with multiple client computers. You cannot install novaPDF Server on multiple servers (for this you would need site licenses).

Site license
  • Description. By purchasing site licenses you can install unlimited copies of novaPDF Server on your computers and also share it as a printer to be accessed from unlimited client computers (within the location restrictions imposed by the type of site license).
  • Limitation. There are several types of site licenses, each with its own location restriction. See the Site Licenses section for details.
Server Licenses
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Site Licenses
If you are interested in site, country or worldwide licenses.
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novaPDF 5.4 released
February 11, 2008

What’s new (read more):
 » Added Copy Text/Image Watermarks dialog
 » Added "Lookup Address" option when sending emails
 » Corrected rotated and vertical texts conversion
 » Corrected conversion from WordArt, MS Word backgrounds and MS Visio drawings
 » Uninstaller deletes now the driver files

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novaPDF SDK is a software development toolkit that can be used by software developers and programmers to add the ability to create PDF files in their applications.
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"novaPDF is a really neat tool. Basically, it’s a PDF printer driver that prints to a PDF file instead of paper.
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