This is one of the newer products to come along for
rendering ANYTHING seen on your screen, which is
printable ... to save it as RTF, PDF, HTML, BMP, JPG.

Just stumbled onto this by chance. Get the URL on one line.

http://www.rarefind.com/paperlesspri..._3.0_setup.exe

For those who do not trust a direct download:

Name: Paperless printer
Vers: N/A
Auth RareFind
Site: http://www.rarefind.com/paperlessprinter/index.html
Plic: Nagware (Request a key after printing to a file)
Blic: Commercial
Note: Inspite of being NAG ware, about the most amazing paperless printer
I've seen.
No nags on the printouts!
Info:
Paperless Printer® is a universal document exchange utility. You can use
Paperless Printer to publish virtually any document in Adobe Portable
Document Format (PDF), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Microsoft Word
Format (DOC), Microsoft Excel Format (XLS), JPEG or BMP, preserving the
exact look and content of the original document, complete with fonts and
graphics. You can distribute your PDF and HTML documents by E-Mail or store
them on the World Wide Web, on intranet, a file system, or a CD. Other users
can view your work on Microsoft® Windows, Mac® OS, LINUX, and UNIX®
platforms. Paperless Printer also works as a preview tool. Users can print
from almost any Windows® application to this printer and visualize the
output on JPEG or BMP, without actually having to print on paper.
Paperless Printer is a 100% software product. It has no hardware parts.
Paperless Printer appears like a normal printer on a Windows PC. You can
actually see the Paperless Printer object in the Printers folder [Start ->
Settings -> Printers]. Using an application's Print command you can print
anything to this printer. Instead of printing on paper, Paperless Printer
creates content in PDF, HTML, DOC, Excel, JPEG or BMP files.
Paperless Printer can convert almost any application data to PDF, HTML, DOC,
Excel, JPEG or BMP including those created with drawing, page-layout, or
image-editing programs. Using the application's Print command, you can
create files directly from Microsoft Office applications, database
applications, word processing applications or common authoring applications.


MightyKitten


Chief Suspect wrote:
> This is one of the newer products to come along for
> rendering ANYTHING seen on your screen, which is
> printable ... to save it as RTF, PDF, HTML, BMP, JPG.
>
> Just stumbled onto this by chance. Get the URL on one line.
>
>
http://www.rarefind.com/paperlesspri..._3.0_setup.exe

In article <G0f5c.11679$KO3.48075@attbi_s02>
"Chief Suspect" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
|
|This is one of the newer products to come along for
|rendering ANYTHING seen on your screen, which is
|printable ... to save it as RTF, PDF, HTML, BMP, JPG.


It's nagware. After you hit the save button to print a file it
brings up the registration wizard for purchasing. It saves the
work but the window comes back after every job.

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"Anonymous" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote |
|
| It's nagware. After you hit the save button to print a file it
| brings up the registration wizard for purchasing. It saves the
| work but the window comes back after every job.
|
====

Oh dear! They've changed the version on me!

Version 2 did not have any such nag screen, and performed identically.
Of course, the nag is *only* for businesses who may be reluctant in
paying up, but I agree it is a minor nuisance to the freeware home
user.

I will try to find a spot online to house version 2 for a.c.f.
readers. Too
large for me to upload via alt.binaries.freeware.

Try here http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2116-10228293.html
Tried it and 2.0 downloaded it. Did not installed though, i bought the 3.0
version for my little company.


MightyKitten



Chief Suspect wrote:
> "Anonymous" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote |
>>
>> It's nagware. After you hit the save button to print a file it
>> brings up the registration wizard for purchasing. It saves the
>> work but the window comes back after every job.
>>
> ====
>
> Oh dear! They've changed the version on me!
>
> Version 2 did not have any such nag screen, and performed identically.
> Of course, the nag is *only* for businesses who may be reluctant in
> paying up, but I agree it is a minor nuisance to the freeware home
> user.
>
> I will try to find a spot online to house version 2 for a.c.f.
> readers. Too
> large for me to upload via alt.binaries.freeware.

lunedì 15/mar/2004 _Chief Suspect_ ha scritto:

> Version 2 did not have any such nag screen, and performed identically.

Are you sure it performed identically?
I ask it because on ZDNet site (thanks MightyKitten for the link) is
written:
Limitations: Extra line at the bottom of each page.
Do you have it? What's this extra line?

Thanks,
--
Maria Luisa C - 15/03/04 13.13.51, here.
Tutorial e FAQ in italiano su Dialog:
http://fido.altervista.org/Dialog/dialog.php

In article <MCg5c.12546$J05.121418@attbi_s01>
"Chief Suspect" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

|Oh dear! They've changed the version on me!
|
|Version 2 did not have any such nag screen, and performed identically.
|Of course, the nag is *only* for businesses who may be reluctant in
|paying up, but I agree it is a minor nuisance to the freeware home
|user.
|
|I will try to find a spot online to house version 2 for a.c.f.
|readers. Too
|large for me to upload via alt.binaries.freeware.

It's all good. I wasn't complaining, just pointing it out. I
think the program is pretty cool.

Here is 2.0
http://www.rarefind.com/paperlessprinter/downloads/
http://www.rarefind.com/paperlesspri.../paperlessprin
ter_2.0_setup.exe

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Youre welcome, MLC.

Here follows my observations and opion about paperless printer

As far as papeless printers go, you will have 6 options:
1) Use a truly freeware PDF printer (most require ghostscript and/or manual
installation). Though I appriciate these efforts, It is not my kind of
stuff.
2) Use a freeware pdf printer that adds the text "created with <Insert name
here>"
3) Buy a papeless printer application
4) Use the www.rarefinds.com nag ware version.
5) Print to .txt or .prn with windows default printers.
6) don't use a paperless printer at all

To the best of my knowledge, there isn't any other paperless printer who
does not have any form of nag ware, except or some sourgeforce project, and
all of those I've seen fall under catagory 1 of the above options.

unless:
There was, once (in a galaxy far away, ect., ect., ect...) a freeware HTML
printer, I even believe it was created by billyBoy's guys, but I never found
it agian. It was quite buggy, and had only html 3.2 support.

As I already wrote, I'm not to sure about version 2.0 'freeware' specific
things,
I think I'd rather prefer the 3.0 'freeware' over the 2.0 version. Though
you as printer operator have some anoyance out of it, your reader's dont.
This, I think, is worth something. Of course I would have prefered it to be
a genuine freeware package, but I have not found a good real freeware
substitute (again, see point 1 of options).

MightyKitten

MLC wrote:
> lunedì 15/mar/2004 _Chief Suspect_ ha scritto:
>
>> Version 2 did not have any such nag screen, and performed
>> identically.
>
> Are you sure it performed identically?
> I ask it because on ZDNet site (thanks MightyKitten for the link) is
> written:
> Limitations: Extra line at the bottom of each page.
> Do you have it? What's this extra line?
>
> Thanks,

Chief Suspect wrote:
<SNIP>
> Version 2 did not have any such nag screen, and performed identically.
> Of course, the nag is *only* for businesses who may be reluctant in
> paying up, but I agree it is a minor nuisance to the freeware home
> user.
>

When I registerd, I couldn't help a smile:
They use actual currency ratings, so (for a change) it was cheaper in
(number of)
Euro's as in (number of) US$ (24 to 29 to be exact). This is seldom the
case, even with the euro having a higher value as the US$

>
> I will try to find a spot online to house version 2 for a.c.f.
> readers. Too
> large for me to upload via alt.binaries.freeware.

lunedì 15/mar/2004 _MightyKitten_ ha scritto:

[...]

> I think I'd rather prefer the 3.0 'freeware' over the 2.0 version. Though
> you as printer operator have some anoyance out of it, your reader's dont.
> This, I think, is worth something.

[...]

I agree with you: it's better to not annoy the reader, then I'll go with the
nagware version.
Thanks for your helpful advice
--
Maria Luisa C - 15/03/04 15.16.38, here.
Tutorial e FAQ in italiano su Dialog:
http://fido.altervista.org/Dialog/dialog.php