Hi Bawldiggle,
Not problem at all! That's never a good experience, for either of you, I hope your partner is well now?
Editor Pro does NOT virtual print
- Correct
Lite and Standard DO virtual print -- but only MS Office docs
- Not quite. PDF-XChange Lite is just the virtual printer and is technically capable of printing to PDF from
any application that can print, but it will not generate interactive features like bookmarks, links, etc.
XChange Standard is a little different. It is a bundle of 3 different products: the PDF-XChange Printer 2012 that is the more advanced (has more features) version of the Lite printer; Office2PDF, which is a batch conversion application that can handle Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and HTML files that are being handled by Internet Explorer; and finally, the MS Office Add-in. The MS Office add-in is what Paul referred to, which integrates itself into the toolbar of MS Office applications and, generally speaking, offers a better and more advanced conversion of MS Office docs. to PDF. It's important to keep in mind that Standard isn't just the advanced printer, but also contains Office2PDF and the MS Office toolbar add-on.
Lite does NOT virtual print Bookmarks
- Correct
4. Standard DOES virtual print Bookmarks
- Correct. It generates these bookmarks based on font/text in the document. These parameters are obviously set by yourself, from within the preferences of the printer.
Free Lite adds PDF-XChange watermark
- That's right. Any of our products, when used without a valid license, will watermark the document on saving, when licensed features are used. In the Editor, these are marked by a 'PRO' icon. With all of the other products (Lite, PDF-Tools and Standard [XChange PRO being abundle of Standard, the Editor and PDF-Tools]) will always watermark the document without a license.
Lite bundled with Editor Pro does not add PDF-XChange watermark
- That's right. This is because a license for the Editor is
also a license for PDF-XChange Lite.
Standard and Lite only virtual print MS Office docs
- Explained above.
PDF-XChange products do not virtual-print HTML web pages (ie, non-PDF web-pages
- As long as you have an application that can open and render the file (for HTML, this is any web browser), and it has an option to print, we can print it and convert it
PDF-XChange products do not virtual-print emails
- Similar to above. If you have an application that can open and render the file, and this is true of any file type that can be rendered, and the application has an option to print, we can print it and convert it.
Would PDF-XChange Tools be an older program than Viewer and Editor
- PDF-Tools is essentially a batch manipulation application, specifically for PDF's, though it can convert .txt and some images to PDF too. It will also scan to PDF.
- I notice Tools comes with Editor integrated
- This is the same idea as Lite and the Editor. A license for PDF-Tools is also a license for the Editor
Hope this clears things up for you