If someone knows another virtual printer capable of printing to html, rtf/doc, pdf and image files, then please post here. Thank you in advance!

So, if I cannot trust a vendors advertising, what makes them think I am going to trust their product to do as it says? I’m not even going to bother downloading it.

That said, I’d like to share a few things I have found that work (somewhat well) for me so far in going “paperless.”

(1) doPDF, as mentioned above, is great freeware. And it is free. And it works on Windows 7-64. Nothing fancy, no bells and whistles, but it does what it says it does.

(2) I moved to ScanSoft “PDF Create!” when I bought Nuance PaperPort. It comes with its own printe to PDF driver and a bunch of other functions. If you need more than simple PDF viewing but don’t want to shell out big bucks for the Adobe suite. I talked to the sales folks at Nuance and was able to get them to throw together a nice software bundle for 1/2 the price advertised. As for PaperPort, I like that I can easily access my PDFs, but (and it may be the lack of an intuitive interface - Think MS Office “Ribbons” but more confusing) it seems like little more than Windows Explorer in fancy packaging.

(3) I also bought NeatDesk. Scanner is great. Worth the (outrageous) cost just for that, I think (comparable in price to a small office document scanner, but less bulky). Yes resolution is only 200 dpi, but scans color, duplex in one pass. The database software, again I have mixed feelings about. Pros: much more searchable/versatile than PaperPort - once you get the database set-up. Cons: There is a whole document import process, a lot of manual tagging to make the database worthwhile, proprietary database format, difficult to export PDFs once imported (keep a copy!), little customization, little documentation, etc., etc. (gosh, I’m not really selling it, am I? But until something better comes along, I’m ok with it).

(4) I have an iPhone and there are a lot of “scanner” apps out there. I’m using JotNot, which works ok for me. pros: free (for basic and that is all I need), good image manipulation. Cons: outputs to jpg

(5) My spouse uses something else that works pretty well, but you have to have iOS4. It also cost about $5 and image manipulation is limited. However, it prints to PDF.

(6) I’m still hungry for a good way to print to jpg, bmp, etc. (Often I have a PDF I want to post on-line, but many of the social networking sites do not support in-line PDFs). Till I find one, I’ve simply been copying entire PDF pages and pasting them into Paint and saving. Tedious: yes. Better option than anything out there: I’d love to hear what other folks suggest.