doPDF6.2 installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is free, and freely distributable software that lets you view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Acrobat Reader also lets you fill in and submit PDF forms online.

Adobe Portable Document Format
Invented by Adobe Systems and perfected over 15 years, Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) lets you capture and view robust information – from any application, on any computer system – and share it with anyone around the world.

To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

PDF Security, DRM, Protection and Distribution Management technologies are used as a copyright enforcement mechanisms and sometimes as an alternative mechanism to copyright law.

Granting exclusive ownership rights to authors and creators through Copyrights, Security and DRM, allows for a better chance of enrichment of more and more creativities and cultural products, and they can nominally compensate their efforts and costs.

Intellectual efforts for producing a product or artifact must be appropriately prizes and we must prevent people to benefit from such products free of charge. PDF Security and DRM provides a better base for protecting contents against illegal distributions, usages and sells. PDF Security and Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are provided to ease distribution of PDF documents for end users by enforcing some usage and distribution limitations like printing, copying, save, transfer and…

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

Main benefits for using this free PDF converter:

* It’s free – PDF converter free for both commercial and personal use.
* 32-bit and 64-bit support – can be installed on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems.
* No GhostScript or .NET – doesn’t require 3rd party programs to do PDF files such as GhostScript or runtime environments like the .NET Framework. This makes the setup file to be incredibly small compared to other free PDF converters.
* Customizable resolution – you can choose any resolution from 72 to 2400 dpi.
* Predefined/custom page sizes – choose a default page size (Letter, Legal, A4, A5, A6, …) or enter your own custom page size.
* Searchable PDFs – you can search for text within the created PDF file (and search engines will also index the text from the PDF).
* Multi-language – choose a language for the user interface from the 20 languages currently supported (credits).
* Do your part in saving the planet – instead of consuming paper to print your document, why not create a PDF file out of it and spare a couple of planet-saving trees?
* Barely uses any computer resources – compared to other free PDF converters, doPDF barely uses any memory or CPU resources when doing the actual conversion to PDF.

doPDF is a free PDF converter, it is not a PDF viewer. To view PDF files you will need the free Adobe Reader.