Testimonials

Following are some testimonials from our clients.  Visit the case studies section for more detailed stories of how organisations have utilised pdfFactory.

Hanna, IT Manager, Leichhardt Council (NSW)

We are very happy with pdfFactory. From an IT point of view, it was very easy to implement and install on users’ desktops. [using pdfFactory Server Edition]

Richard, CEO, Sandringham Yacht Club (Victoria)

pdfFactory Pro made sending out emails with multiple attachments easier to consolidate and distribute. It meant people at the other end had a much easier experience – printing one doc as opposed to many. It also then makes printing of hardcopies easy (you end up printing one doc as opposed to 20.

Mike C.

A quick note on pdfFactory:

Bought it, installed it and compared it to Adobe 6.0 Professional. Bottom line:

  • pdfFactory’s Word interface is faster and less intrusive than Adobe 6.0 Pro’s.
  • pdfFactory’s file output size is approximately half as large as Adobe 6.0’s - a very significant and important advantage. pdfFactory’s interface is more intuitive and its documentation is simpler to access and use than 6.0’s.
  • pdfFactory is significantly less expensive.

Thanks for a truly wonderful product at a value-oriented price.

Mark T.

Here’s a little saga for you to exercise your schadenfreude on. I needed to create pdf files, so I bought Acrobat on eBay. But, it was a scammer, and I was out $120! Then I bought the real Acrobat and it SUCKED - huge PDF files, slurs didn’t come out right, etc.

Then I bought pdfFactory and it was like the clouds parted and angels played trumpets to serenade fairies dancing on red and white mushrooms. I even went back and deleted most of the huge scores I had created with acrobat distiller and replaced them with pdfFactory versions. Thanks a lot for making pdfFactory.

Patrick R.

Also, I wanted to say I love your application. It’s great. I embed a lot of Visio graphics into Word docs and pdfFactory Pro does an outstanding job with handling that. My docs turn out much better with pdfFactory than they ever did with Acrobat, and the conversion is quicker too. Keep up the good work. You have a customer for life!

Ann

I just want to say THANK-YOU, for a wonderful product - pdfFactory. I am quite a novice at the computer, so often need help with applications. I produce a monthly newsletter for a club I belong to. I wanted to find a way to reduce the file for easier downloading when e-mailing the newsletter. I was advised to try Adobe Acrobat - but the price of almost $400.(Cdn.) was too much. However, I noticed that they offered a service “Create PDF files Online” - this cost $9.95 (US) a month. I signed up in January/03 and converted my January newsletter, originally in MSWord at 3.5mg. The PDF file was 1.8mg which was fine for e-mailing. However, February was another story! My original file in MSWord was 3.1mg and converted to PDF @ 10 - yes, TEN mg.

I tried all ways to receive help or advice as to why the file had swelled to more than 3 times the size. I tried removing pages from the original, but each time I ended up with a PDF file which was approx. 3 times the size. I quickly cancelled the monthly account! Then, a friend advised me to try your pdfFactory - I downloaded the free trial and converted my original Feb MSWord file of 3.1mg - and lo & behold!! I had a PDF file of 1.3 mg. THANK YOU!! After making several free trials, I purchased the product. What a terrific product - I have recommended it to several friends already.

Dave

My academic specialization is public administration and management so I spend a huge amount of my time collecting, analyzing and using government documents from around the world posted on websites in .pdf format. It’s been a real irritant with me that when agencies post a document the total size of which is, say, >5MB, they often break it up into component chapters - without providing an additional download of the whole thing complete. A damned nuisance for researchers and also for students when we set these documents as reading material for university courses - lots of small files when what we want is the one, large, complete one.

I’d asked Adobe whether they could assist me (e.g. with a patch) so that I and my colleagues could combine these separate documents into one - using a ‘public good’ argument (y’know, helping students and all that stuff!!!). Their reply was a bit disapproving and that it was a bit ‘difficult’ (I think they were angling for us to purchase the whole Acrobat package - maybe they were also worried about document security??? dunno…). I pointed out that pdfFactory allows me to do so in a very convenient format and that it struck me you guys were showing the kind of flexible entrepreneurialism customers like myself were looking for! Thanks for nothing, Adobe…!

In a separate, earlier exchange, in which I was trying to get clear instructions from them (not clear on many printer drivers, e.g. HP) on how to print 2 pages per sheet off the free Acrobat Reader using various printers (again, knowledge I was seeking to help students), the Adobe rep had the grace to act embarrassed when I pointed out that pdfFactory was giving me a print speed (in this test I used 3 different types of government documents on 5 different networked and non-networked printers) of 1-4 pages per minute straight off (printing 2 pages per sheet) whereas the Reader setting sometimes gave a delay of 30-120secs before it printed anything, then gave only 0.5-1.5 pages per minute (and with one graphics-rich document, about 6 mins wait, with about 1 page per minute - long pauses between each page). At least that exchange with Adobe was courteous (the more recent one wasn’t!). But it was that test that convinced me to purchase your product 3-4 months ago and, as I noted previously, I’ve used it constantly since.

Barry D.

I have been using your trial version of pdfFactory for about 3 weeks now, it is fantastic!! I use MS Access to develop database applications and have always had a difficult time distributing reports electronically while preserving the reports’ format. Using pdfFactory, I have been able to send my most complex reports, including graphs, Gantt charts, sub-reports, and customized grids, pdfFactory maintained all formatting aspects of these reports while converting it to the Acrobat Reader format. This has saved me a lot of time!

Jason S.

I use PDF Factory to send sheet music to my band after I arrange it with Coda’s Finale. The only other option is to save the finished arrangement as a TIFF but that’s a pain because that’s one tiff file per page. With PDF Factory I can include song lists, music, rundowns, and notes all in one PDF and email it out to the band. It’s wonderful!