Polestar Virtual Printer(Freeware)
Convert anything printable to PDF and Image: BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF and EMF!
Polestar Virtual Printer
Polestar Virtual Printer is a combination of virtual PDF printer and virtual image printer, which enables you to convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, AutoCAD, Photoshop and much more document types into PDF, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, or EMF with high quality, and keep the exact look and content of the original documents. It is a completely
FREE software with no watermarks and no popup web ads!
Why I need to use Polestar Virtual Printer?
If you develop application that will print reports, documents or anything else you'll probably want to test you application on the real printer. But what to do If you don't trust your application's preview function, if you want to have a test printout without producing piles of scribbling-paper, if you need to test printing again and again, or even you haven't printer at this time and you want to have a 'digital printout'?
The solution is to use Polestar virtual printer. Polestar Virtual Printer works like any printer with MS Windows - but without wasting paper. Install it like a common Windows Printer using the Printer Wizard, print on like on a common printer. Polestar Virtual Print is recognized by operating system as a common printer. You can set quality, orientation and other settings. No differences between hardware printer and Polestar Virtual Print driver except all printing jobs will be saved in the picture or PDF files.
Using Polestar Virtual Print print driver is easy. To help developers it has several useful features.
Features
  • Create PDF files from any program that is able to print PDF & Image Printer Driver installs as a standard printer can be easily used for PDF creation from any Windows program printable with high quality.
  • Export documents to raster image files: PNG, JPG, TIFF, GIF, BMP.
  • Export documents to vector image files: EMF.
  • Create Multipage TIFF Create single TIFF image file from a multipage document or from several documents.
  • Custom Folder Option This gives you the option to save created PDF or image files to a specified directory.
  • Automatic Output is to generate PDFs and images with unique name and specific path. These information will be kept in Windows Registry Hive.
  • Resolution or dpi (dot per inch) level options in horizontal and vertical directions for both PDFs and images.
How to convert files using Polestar Virtual Printer?
  • First of all, using the tiny interface to install or uninstall Polestar Virtual Printer, make a printing test, read the help menu or config it ;
  • Right click the needed file and choose the print command. If you don't have any other printer installed, Polestar Virtual Printer will automatically recognize the file and it will ask where it should save the file and in what format. After this the file will be converted. If you have another printer installed, you will have to choose first the virtual printer, and after this Polestar will recognize the file.
  • Save your files to PDF or various image formats.
How to config Polestar Virtual Printer?
If you need to print to custom-defined res PDF or image into directory that is preset set and you need each page to have a unique name automatically generated. You can get it with Polestar Virtual Printer jut do as follows:
1. Click Configuration in the interface.
Click configuration
2. Set various configs about preset saving directory and image types.
Config polestar virtual printer
3. Now you can freely convert your files.
Fields of Application
  • Save Important Web Pages
    Save important web pages to your computer in PDF, raster image (BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF and PNG) or vector image (EMF) format.
  • Print Preview
    Convert your documents into high-resolution TIFF or PDF files before sending them to your printing solutions provider, you can be assured of high quality output so as to save cost, paper and time.
  • Web Publishing
    Save your Word files as PDFs or images for easy distribution or display on the Web.
  • Patent Drafting
    When preparing materials and documents for a Patent application, Polestar Virtual Printer can instantly convert all materials to the TIFF format, which is the format required by the Patent and Trademark Office and other national patent organizations.
System Requirement
Windows 2000/XP/2003
Awards
Polestar Virtual Printer Review in Soft32.com
Polestar Virtual Printer Review in Soft32.com