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Save a tree with Greenprint

GreenprintHow often do you try to print a website only to find that it prints a couple of extra pages with nothing but URLs and banner ads? Greenprint is a commercial utility that analyzes your print jobs and strips away pages that are essentially blank, saving you paper.

At $35, it could take a while for a home user to save enough paper for the program to pay for itself. But there's an enterprise version available for $70 that provides a few extra features, like the number of trees saved and CO2 emissions saved. The software's 50% off for educational institutions and environmental non-profits.

Greenprint also includes an option letting you print a document to PDF. If you don't really need a hard copy of a document, this is a great way to save paper. Of course, there are plenty of free PDF printers available as well.

[via Red Ferret Journal]

How to print just about anything to PDF for free

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One of our favorite programs here at Download Squad HQ is Foxit Reader. It's basically a replacement for Adobe Acrobat. Foxit reads PDF files, and that's about it. But boy does it do it well.

Adobe Reader can take 30 seconds or longer to load, and tends to bog down Firefox or Internet Explorer when you want to open a PDF from a web page. Foxit loads in a snap and can handle almost anything Adobe Reader can. But the free version of Foxit won't let you create PDF files.

That's where doPDF steps in. It's one of a number of programs that installs a virtual printer on your machine. Now when you go to print a web page, word document, photo or pretty much anything else, you can save it as a PDF file. You can set the resolution to anything from 72 dpi to 2400 dpi, and the "printed" files are text searchable.

Sure, doPDF's not the only program that performs this function, but much like Foxit, it's free and it just works. Really well.

[via Digital Inspiration]

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