What edition to choose?

novaPDF Lite 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

•	Multi-language support - choose a language for the user interface

•	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

•	Merge PDF files - you can append or insert content to an existing PDF file

•	PDF viewer options - you can control how the PDF file will be displayed after it's generated in the default PDF viewer (show the resulting PDF on the full screen, with or without the bookmarks/attachments/pages panel, magnifying the resulting pdf)

•	Custom Save options - you can configure it to use some predefined save settings, so that the resulting PDF file could be saved automatically upon creation with a macro generated name

•	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.

•	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.

•	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

•	Public Profiles - Define profiles on the server computer and they will automatically be propagated to all client computers

•	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 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 all the features of novaPDF Lite Server and novaPDF Standard

•	40 bit/128 bit encryption - full 40-bit and 128-bit encryption is supported by novaPDF Professional and the user is able to control whether the PDF can be viewed, printed, modified, annotated or if it should permit copying/pasting content from it

•	create PDF links - recognizes links to files and formatted URLs (starting with "http://", "www", "mailto:" or "ftp://") visible in the original document, and creates them in the generated PDF file as links, so they can be opened by clicking them in the PDF viewer

•	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 the application (using SMTP configuration). Additionally you can choose to zip the PDF and send it as attachment.

•	PDF Bookmarks - it 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.

•	PDF Overlay - this allows adding the content of the document currently being printed via novaPDF Professional as the background or foreground of an existing PDF file, with options to customize the position of that added content.

novaPDF Professional Server has all the features of novaPDF Standard Server and novaPDF Professional.

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).

•	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.

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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 and 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).

•	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 on our website for details.