PC PRIMER # 615
By R.L. Creighton
Copyright 2004
I owe credit for this week’s software
find; to a very dear friend that insisted that I look at it. I’m glad that I
did. Ok, it’s not magic, but it is pretty darn close. I have been working with
a new product (new to me anyway) called “Fine Print” from a company named oddly
enough “Fine Print” The company was
founded in 95 as an aid to programmers to allow for the efficient printing of
massive numbers of pages, for easy perusal.
The end result is a really great printing product that really rocks.
One of the outstanding capabilities of
the program is its ability to conserve. You can save on time space and paper.
If you need to compress a document into a manageable size then use “Fine Print”
to print two for or eight pages of information onto one piece of standard
paper. I find that eight pages per sheet reduces the print size below my
capability to read the text. However, four pages works quite well. This is really great for the nine page
newsletter I receive weekly. I can now reduce the bulk and still have a
readable document. This is cool!
Another super feature is the ability
to turn the multi page document into a booklet. This takes all your pages,
reduces them to fit on half a page, and then prints them in an order that
allows them to be assembled into a 5X7 booklet that is exceptionally
convenient, and attractive. This works
with printers that print on both sides automatically or on the normal single
sided printer (requiring you to reinsert the pages one time). The process is astounding. It takes a bit
longer than normal printing, but when you consider the manipulation required,
you will be impressed. I marvel at the
configuration of the page layout to make it all come out in order. This is
really something.
The program has so many features
that it is difficult to pass on all the good stuff. There is a print preview,
an ink saver that allows you to skip over the printing of graphics if you
choose, forms and letter heads, combine print jobs, Paper scaling and on and
on. Tell you what. Instead of me telling
you, take a trip over to their web page www.fineprint.com.
Download a trial version for yourself and I just bet that you will be willing
to fork over the $49.95 for the full version. The trial version is great, but
it prints a small banner ad for Fine Print across the bottom of each page. If
you pay up and register the banner ad goes away.
This is really a great product that
I am sure that you will fine useful Give it a try I am sure that you won’t be
sorry. In the next few weeks I will tell you about Fine Print’s other great
product called the pdf Factory. Wow, another blockbuster!
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