Amazon.com Product Description

1-Step RoboPDF 2.0 allows you to quickly and easily create secure, compact, customized PDF files from any printable document. Instantly produce universally accessible PDF files for easy e-mailing, posting on the Web, or inclusion on a CD-ROM. Retain the look and feel of your existing documents while converting them to a secure, compact PDF file. By embedding all fonts and graphics into one file, RoboPDF preserves the original, intended appearance and layout of documents, regardless of when or where they are viewed.

The software allows you to completely customize the security levels of your PDFs as well. With two levels of security encryption, password protection, and a variety of PDF permissions, RoboPDF controls how your end users interact with your PDF documents.

Plus, you can enhance PDFs with a look and feel all your own with everything from company stationery to graphics and logos. PDF stationery gives your documents a personalized touch. Add a stylized watermark or stamp to each page of a PDF document for immediate customization. Your watermarked message will be clearly visible to all who review your documents. You can even use RoboPDF's stamping technology to graphically "stamp" your PDFs with a visual message. ... Read more

Reviews (4)

Version 3 is pretty good
I read a review of RoboPDF 3.0, the current version, on MSNBC.com and since it was offered at half price on their website, I rushed over and downloaded a copy. BTW you can download an unlimited trial version, which puts a watermark on your PDF file but is otherwise fully functional. Anyway it works quite well. I had an old version of Acrobat on my Win98 machine but I couldn't install it on XP for unknown reasons, but now I can create PDF files using RoboPDF! If you have strange fonts you might run into problems, but for 99% of your standard documents -- I use Word most of the time but occasionally also convert TeX files -- RoboPDF works beautifully.

Definitely download the trial version and see for yourself. Amazon.com should re-carry this product.

It simply doesn't work!!
I bought this product thinking I'd have a PDF generator that was cost effective and would be simple to use. WRONG! Firstly files that I've saved suddenly wouldn't open and had to be generated and saved again - and again - and yet again! Then, files I've emailed to people sometimes won't open (I sent 3 files to 1 person - he could open 2 but not the 3rd!). Finally the software just stopped working altogether when I'd done NOTHING to my PC (this after about 7 days). Finally, the customer service is non existant. You have to post messages on a forum - and no one has as yet answered mine (the forum is full of questions asking for fixes to various bugs - that is, its like a beta version you're buying), and finding an email address is nearly impossible - I think I found one for the customer care dept, but as no one has bothered to answer it I'm not so sure.

My advise in one breath is quite simple - AVOID IT!!!!

Ease Of Use Is Key Factor
Not all of us have access to a full Adobe software package. Yet, there are times when the availability of a secure printed document that is easily openable by the average user is key. Since Adobe's PDF format has become the defacto format for cross platform documents, RoboPDF provides the user with the ability to quickly produce a PDF file from their original source. This software runs on multiple Microsoft OS (I tried it on Win98 and Win2K) and had no problems with the installation or the execution. There is also a free downloadable trial demo that will allow you to get a feel for the product. I tried several progams (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, IBM's Expense Tracker Program to name a few) and all translated and opened flawlessly! If you don't have Adobe then you MUST HAVE this one.

perfect for creating PDF files
Occationally I need to share documents from applications other people might not have or even protect them from being altered. PDF is a great format for this but I'm not willing to spend much for a PDF conversion tool. Then I found Robopdf. For $ this software rocks! It acts like a print driver so when you want to convert one of your windows files into a PDF you simply click print and choose Robopdf from your printer driver list and boom, you have a PDF. It seems to work with any windows program but I tend to use it with Word and Excel the most. ... Read more

Features

• Create any number of different file types without having to launch a new application
• Convert your PDF into a. TIF image or an easily-edited text file -- or convert your. TIF to a PDF document
• Advanced security features like password protection, and hidden files no hard drive search can access
• Flexible file org tools combine with powerful search and retrieval functions, to make storing and finging your documents a snap
• Stronger data compression with no loss of quality

Amazon.com Review

Anyone who works with large numbers of digital images, whether for home use or professionally, knows how difficult it can be to keep those images cataloged and accessible. That's where digital asset management applications such as Portfolio 6 enter the picture. Portfolio 6 acts as a database for all your digital images, allowing you to search them by keyword or visually, and it gives you easy access to those images to use in any other application.

Portfolio 6 has long been the standard by which all digital asset management applications have been judged. With Mac and PC versions on the same CD-ROM, installation is simple and you'll soon be importing and cataloging all your digital images at an impressive rate.

New in Portfolio 6 are a number of features that make it a more powerful and intuitive application than earlier versions. A key new feature in version 6 is FolderSync, which allows you to keep your Portfolio catalog synchronized with "hot folders," whether they are on your computer or on removable disks. With synchronization working in two directions, you can modify the contents of any hot folder and the changes will be reflected in your catalog. You can also move, modify, or delete images from within Portfolio and the corresponding changes will be made to your stored files.

Another new feature is Portfolio Express. This standalone mini application gives you a floating palette from which you can select images to place in any other application, such as Photoshop or a word processing program. Portfolio 6 even solves the problem of distributing your digital portfolio to users who don't have their own copy of the software: write a catalog to removable media such as a CD, and Portfolio 6 will automatically include a copy of the free Portfolio browser, allowing anyone to view your images.

Add to this the huge selection of advanced features, ranging from importing EXIF image data from compatible digital cameras to quick-and-easy Web publishing, and you'll find that Extensis Portfolio 6 is just the tool you need to make working with digital images a whole lot more efficient. --Daniel Jardine, Amazon.co.ukNote: This is the 5-user version. ... Read more

Features

• Get organized quickly!
• Catalog instantly from anywhere
• Improved data management