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Whistle Stopper - PDF Converter Professional 5.0
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List Price: $99.99
Our Price: $69.86
Your Save: $ 30.13 ( 30% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Nuance Communications, Inc.
EAN: 0780420118034
Feature: Create 100% industry-standard PDF files from any PC application
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Manufacturer: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Model: M109A-G01-5.0
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Release Date: 2008-03-02
Studio: Nuance Communications, Inc.
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Features
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Create 100% industry-standard PDF files from any PC application
Convert PDF files into fully-formatted Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, XPS, or Corel WordPerfect files--complete with text, columns, tables and graphics
Edit directly within a PDF document, adding copy, rearranging words, or even changing graphics
Make any form fillable--FormTyper technology lets you fill, save and share forms electronically
Secure your PDF files by applying digital signatures and security settings
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't buy this product there is no no no no SUPORT.
Comment: Try and regester this product is an impossibility. The questions asked of you are not only personal but intrusive. Your reward for opting out of the process on page 8 is to be gifted with a product that produces immages with "Trial Version" posted diagonally over every page.
No one to talk to no help at all. I just purchased Adobe Professional and now the job is done properly with no intrusion into my personal life.
Listen to the one star people here...and save yourself some time and money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Software, Terrible Support
Comment: The software is good. But the company, Nuance, makes it very difficult to install or reinstall PDF Converter 5 and charges a hefty fee for service calls. Because of the installation and reinstallation problems and poor support, I am looking for another product for the same job.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent product
Comment: I have tested this software in several tasks and I'm very pleased with it.
The software installed well, run without problems and I have not had any problem with the operative system. My OS is Windows XP service pack 2.
The software make very good work with any kind of PDF and in my experience the format is almost the same that the original. To convert to PDF there are several opitions of security and even you can configure one personal.
The interface is easy to manage and intuitive. Maybe the process to register is not easy and this is something to improve in the future.
I have not used the support yet because I have not had problems with the product.
September 6:
In these days I have known the product pdf printer that make a good job and is very intuiteve, so I believe that nuance should think about improve its interface and that it could be very pleasant for the user to have a tree structure similar to the explorer to achieve the pdf conversion's process instead of use the interface of the pfd create and this could make the software a very good one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: PDF Professioinal Converter 5
Comment: This product would not work properly in a fully updated Windows XP Professional system and fully updated Internet Explorer 6.X.
It would open *.PDF files that had been saved to my hard drive but would not open *.PDF files that were accessed through links from Outlook Express. It would open some internet resident files that were accessed directly from Internet Explorer.
Both Adobe Reader 8.X and 9.X had no problem opening the same *.PDF files.
Great perseverance was required to return this product to its manufacturer, Nuance, without paying return postage.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Product seems to work OK so far. Activation & tech support stinks!
Comment: I'm on day 1 of using this software.
Creating a PDF is working fine.
Converting an existing PDF to MS Word is working fine, so far.
Converting an existing PDF with a table inside it; into MS excel is working OK, so far.
Annoyances/problems:
1. After installing software onto my PC, an annoying "activation" NAG screen keeps popping up everytime/anytime I launch the program and/or toggle between CREATING a PDF vs CONVERTING a PDF.
Plus it decrements from 30 uses to none.
So off I went to ACTIVATE this whiner!
2. Activation:
a. I just went online, registered, and then activated it, but apparently it requires further MANUAL intervention by the enduser (lazy programmers at Nuance).
Because I am still getting the pop-up about not being activated.
b. License key & activation problems:
The setup/installation onto your PC works just fine with numbers and LOWER case letters . [For entering the alpha-numeric license code during installation of the software onto your PC].
But as soon as you get to Nuance's website and try to activate/register,
by using their "Paste-serial-number-from-clipboard" button, you get an error!
These boneheads keep kicking back your serial number as INCORRECT until you make it ONLY numbers and only "UPPER case" letters.
(why doesn't Nuance spend a couple bucks on a 5 minute programming "FIX" and let the stinking webpage AUTO correct a small issue like these)
Next, trying to correct a serial number which was already "pasted" into the Nuance webform box [but contained lower-case letters]. Whenever I'd click my mouse next to a lower case letter and try to CHANGE it to an UPPERcase letter, a wretched pop-up window keeps WHINING about using "The PASTE button function only".
For every 1 lower-case letter you try to change to upper-case; you have to answer 2 pop-up windows and make them go away.
[Hey tightwads, fix your website's serial number entry form).
[Go to Elance and hire a programmer for $2.00 an hour and FIX the problem with "YOUR" [NUANCE's] website]
I tried to be nice and contact Nuisance (whoops, I mean Nuance) about their problem.
(Starting off an end-user experience like this is NOT going to endear me to rush out and buy any more NUANCE products; especially if they can't make the registration & activation process easier, functional and more streamlined)
Here's a frustrating experience; Just try contacting these Tight-fisted pukes with a simple FYI, to tell them about a website issue of their's.
These pukes expect you to shell out $9.95 per incident just to contact them.
Sorry dudes, I'm not paying to fix YOUR website problems.
SUMMARY:
Pros - products looks/acts OK so far.
- cheaper than Adobe
Cons - Just hope you NEVER need to contact NUANCE for ANYTHING.
Or I should say; PLAN to NEVER contact them.
[you can't even throw them a bone about how to improve their website without getting hit up for $9.95]
-poor activation web setup
- Deceptive/hidden cost details about tech support :
- no mention on software box
- no mention inside box, nor in User manual
I bought this program for myself.
Once I test-drove it awhile, I was going to make recommendations to a large client about maybe switching to Nuance (from Adobe).
I really have my doubts now; especially regarding their "nickel & dime-ing" attitude toward their end-users.
09-24-2008 update:
I tried converting a bunch of pdf's to word, so i can work with the data within the pdf's.
The program goes fairly fast through the conversion process, until you reach 99%. Then it sits there for what seems like an eternity.
My core-2-duo is not pegged for CPU usage (only 25-50%), but the hard disk light is almost solid.
I found that this program really has a hard time with any text within a book's front cover. Mostly comes out as a mangled mess.
The text pages are decent in the translation.
But plan to run auto-format within Word, to get things cleaned up.
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Editorial Reviews:
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PDF Converter Professional 5, the only complete PDF solution designed specifically for business users, delivers everything you need to create, convert, and edit PDF files. You can fill and save online PDF forms with one click or secure your PDF files by applying digital signatures or using drag and drop security settings. Using the intuitive interface, you'll be a PDF expert in no time. PDF Converter Professional 5 delivers the flexibility of PDF editing and the versatility of PDF conversion into one easy-to-use application. PDF Converter Professional is the first PDF solution designed specifically to meet the needs and look & feel of Vista. Load XPS files and convert them to editable formats, or convert your PDF files into XPS. XPS files are handled in their native format. No other software component is required for the conversions. On Windows Vista and Windows XP with installed .NET Framework, the program generates .DOCX, .XLSX and .PPTX format files. The conversion can be performed without having Office 2007 installed on the computer. When the PDF contains a scale drawing, you can enter its scaling so these tools show the distances or areas represented inside the drawing. Three-dimensional objects can be rotated, spun, panned, zoomed and viewed from different perspectives. Animations in the object can be played and the measurement tools can be used with 3D objects. The program allows you to embed 3D objects in PDF files. You can view, modify and export the model tree that defines the object structure. The PDF with MRC Compression profile is useful for creating compressed PDF files from documents scanned to image files. It has most value for documents with grayscale or color pictures or backgrounds. You can choose how to balance image quality against file size. Tags can now be applied to individual objects in the document. Security set-up is streamlined with a simple drag and drop security profile mechanism, plus
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