Features summary

Create PDF files

You can create fully compatible Adobe PDF files from any Windows application that supports printing.

Easy installation

There is a single installation file that automatically installs novaPDF. Also there is an uninstaller utility that automatically uninstalls novaPDF. You only need Windows 2000/XP/XP x64/2003 Server/2003 Server x64/Vista/Vista x64/2008 Server and approximately 10 megabytes of free disk space.

Easy to use

You don't need to learn a complex program. All you have to do is to click Print from any application that supports printing and choose novaPDF to create PDF files.

Convert any document

novaPDF converts any type of printable windows document including DOC, XLS, PPT, HTML and TXT.

Predefined paper sizes

novaPDF supports several predefined paper sizes and also custom user defined paper sizes that can be saved and reused. You can also set printing resolution from 72 to 2400 dpi. To better fit the result on paper, there are options to set paper margins and to scale the output.

Searchable PDF files

You can search and extract text from the generated PDF files.

Language

During novaPDF setup you can choose what languages to be installed for novaPDF user interface. You can change the language at runtime using the Languages tab.

Document properties

You can set the document properties such as title, subject, author and keywords for each printed document.

Merge PDF files

You can append or insert the content of the document being converted, to an existing PDF file.

Output folder

You can set a default folder to save the files and a default file name. You can also use some macros to define the resulting file name including: original document name, date and time, computer and user name and a file counter. Or you can choose the output folder and file name at each print job.

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.

Private Profiles

Each user has different settings. Beside this, each user can define different profiles, each with its own settings for page size, resolution, fonts, compression, document info and save settings. Later, you can use one of the defined profiles when printing a document. A default profile is automatically created when you first install the software.

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.

Public Profiles (Server editions)

Using the Server editions you can define public profiles. These profiles are created on the server computer and are automatically propagated to all client computers. You can configure some profiles to save the PDF files in a folder on server and all client computers will generate the PDF files in that folder.

novaPDF SDK

You can integrate novaPDF in your applications and easy generate PDF files. You should download and install novaPDF SDK that includes a COM for customizing novaPDF's options and a silent installer for the driver that can be distributed with your software.

Network auto-install (Server editions)

novaPDF can be installed on one computer and can be used by any computer in the network, without having to install it on each computer. Just share the printer on the printer server and connect to it from any other computer.

Reduce size of PDF file

Documents can be compressed using the zip compression method. Images can be compressed using JPEG compression and downsampled or converted to grayscale. For all compression methods, you can choose a compression level.

Font embedding

TrueType and OpenType fonts are supported. The fonts can be embedded in the PDF file to ensure perfect portability. You can choose to embed only font subsets and reduce PDF file size.

novaPDF supports any character set, including Eastern-European, Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts and characters. 

File encryption and password protection

PDF documents can be secured using either 40-bit or 128-bit encryption algorithms. You can control access to PDF files to prevent opening without a password, printing, copying text and graphics or editing PDF files.

PDF Links

novaPDF can parse the printed document text and recognize visible links to files and URLs (starting with "http://", "www", "mailto:" or "ftp://"). It can mark them in the generated PDF file as links, so they can be opened by clicking them in the PDF viewer.

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.

Watermarks

You can define multiple text or image watermarks and add them to individual pages or the entire PDF document.

Email

You can configure novaPDF to send an email after a PDF file is generated. The PDF will be attached to the email, compressed or not. The email can be sent with SMTP or with your default email client.

PDF Overlay

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