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You can digitally sign a PDF document either by creating or importing your certificates using the professional edition of novaPDF. This tutorial is applicable only if you have installed novaPDF Professional, so if it's not installed on your system visit the Download page to download and install it.

The following tutorial describes the conversion of a file created with Adobe Fireworks (now discontinued) to a PDF document with novaPDF.

You can easily convert InDesign documents (.INDD files) to PDF documents directly from Adobe InDesign by using novaPDF.

This tutorial shows how to open Profile Manager and also how to create a new printing profile and set it as the active profile.

This section explains what is a PDF editor and also gives explanations on why we haven't created one as well (i.e. novaPDF can be used for creating PDF files, not editing them).

The following article explains how to convert an AbiWord native file format (abw) to a PDF document. The conversion is made with the novaPDF converter, which allows creating a PDF from any Windows program that has printing support. Use the Download page to download and install the novaPDF application on your computer to be able to make the conversion.

This tutorial shows how to use ConvertLIT GUI, Stanza and novaPDF to convert a LIT (Microsoft Reader eBook) file format to a PDF document. novaPDF is a PDF converter that allows creating PDF files from any Windows application that supports printing. If you do not have novaPDF installed, use the Download page to download and install it.

The following tutorial explains how to convert a PSPIMAGE/PSP file to a PDF document with the help of the novaPDF printer driver and the Corel PaintShop Photo Pro. To be able to complete the conversion, you will have to download and install novaPDF first if you haven't already done so.

This tutorial shows how to create clickable active PDF links using novaPDF. This is a PDF creator that allows generating PDF files from any Windows application that supports printing. If you don't have novaPDF installed, use the Download page to download and install it.

This section contains answers for frequent questions regarding the activation process of novaPDF and issues that might occur during activation. For a tutorial on how to activate please see this article instead: How to activate novaPDF

This article refers to the process of converting an IBM Lotus file to a PDF document by using a PDF printer driver such as the novaPDF one. For the conversion to be completed, download the novaPDF application from the Download page and install it on your computer.

This tutorial shows how to register novaPDF 7.x (or previous). To view a tutorial on how to activate novaPDF 8.x (or newer) see this article: How to activate

This article explains how to convert a wpd file created with Corel WordPerfect to a PDF document with the help of the novaPDF printer driver. If you do not have novaPDF installed on your PC, use the Download page to download and install the application.

novaPDF SDK includes as part of its documentation several code samples that help developers integrate it faster in their applications, depending on the programming language it is written in. This section includes several code samples showing the various possibilities to send programmatically a print job to the novaPDF SDK printer.

The VCL Converter (Delphi PDF) sample demonstrates how to convert an existing file by printing it to novaPDF Printer using the ShellExecutefunction. It also demonstrates how to set different options and manage profiles in your novaPDF development.

novaPDF is a PDF creator that allows generating PDF files from any Windows application that supports printing. This tutorial shows how to have text or image watermarks added in the PDF file even if in the original document there are no watermarks.

novaPDF needs to be activated after purchasing a license. This article describes how to activate novaPDF manually in case the automatic online activation fails.

Hello World (Delphi PDF) sample is a simple Windows console application that prints one page with the "Hello World from Delphi!" text to the novaPDF Printer.

It demonstrates the basic use of the INovaPDFOptions interface. The printing job is made with calls to the global Printer object defined by Delphi. Text is printed using Canvas.TextOut method.

It generates a "Hello World.pdf" file in the working folder.

novaPDF OEM is a virtual PDF printer that developers can use when needing a post-processing PDF solution. Installing novaPDF OEM should be done only via the command line parameters, as this is the only way it can be configured. Parameters used for this purpose are detailed in this article.

Set options for Save dialog and configure after-save actions.

Convert MS Word document to PDF from Delphi using Word OLE automation.

Define new printing profiles or manage existing ones.

You can use the novaPDF Co-Branding tool to customize the setup you have to integrate with novaPDF SDK or novaPDF OEM.

novaPDF only creates PDF files, it does not include a PDF reader/viewer. Every now and then we receive an email about why we don't develop a PDF viewer, given that our PDF creator is excellent.

The following article is referring to the conversion of a CPT file to a PDF document by using a PDF converter such as the novaPDF driver. If you do not have novaPDF installed on your computer, use the Download page to download and install the application.