Executive Summary:
To make your computers less resource-hungry, you can install "lite" programs. If you have Windows Vista and work with PDF files, you might want to check out these two free lite programs: CutePDF and PDFTools.
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In his Reader to Reader article
“Lighten Your Computer’s
Load” (September,
InstantDoc
ID 96615), Apostolos
Fotakelis talks about
some free programs
that he uses to make
his computers less
resource-hungry. I
used to use all of those
programs. However,
when I upgraded
to Windows Vista
recently, I discovered
that I could no longer
use PDFCreator. Fortunately,
I found an
alternative: CutePDF
(www.cutepdf.com).
CutePDF is free, does
everything that PDFCreator
can do, and is
Vista friendly.
Another PDF utility
that I like using is PDFTools 1.3
(www.sheelapps.com). This free program
lets you:
• encrypt a PDF file by assigning it a
password
• create a protection-free version of
encrypted PDF file
• create a PDF file by joining multiple
PDF files
• split a PDF file in multiple ways,
such as splitting each page to new
PDF file and splitting a file after a
given page number
• arrange pages in a PDF file
• overlay text or an image over a PDF
file
• convert an XML file into a PDF file
Note that you need Java Runtime
Environment/Java Development
Kit (JRE/JDK) 1.4 or later to use
PDFTools. This program
works great with
either Vista or Windows
XP.
-Jeff Owens,
System Administrator,
Key Fasteners Corp.