dotTech Exclusive: 30 free licenses of novaPDF Professional!
February 9, 2010 272
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Similar to Backup4all, novaPDF should be a distinctly familiar name to dotTechies because I have written about novaPDF multiple times in the past. For those that don’t remember, or don’t know, what novaPDF is, I will give a short recap.
novaPDF is a commercial PDF printer which allows you to turn any file which you can print into a PDF. There are three editions of novaPDF – Lite, Standard, and Professional. Each edition has a “desktop” and “server” version. This chart compares the differences in features between the editions:
(If you would like to learn about novaPDF in detail, feel free to read my review on novaPDF Standard (v6.4).)
While last week we had 30 licenses of Backupall Professional to share with dotTechies, this week we have 30 licenses of novaPDF Professional (desktop version) to giveaway for free! Since novaPDF is another product by Softland, the same terms and conditions apply to these novaPDF Professional licenses as were applied to the 30 licenses of Backupall Professional. What I mean to say is whoever wins a license of novaPDF Professional “get the same rights as (regular) customers of Softland.” These “rights” include receiving all “minor updates” for free. A minor update consists of, for example, v7.0 -> v7.1 but not v7.0 -> v8.0. Once you hit the point where you can no longer attain free updates, you can still continue to use your novaPDF Professional copy for free indefinitely.
Here are the rules of this giveaway:
Version being given out: v7.0.327
Free updates: Minor updates only
Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008/Win7
Download size: 7 MB
- To win a license of novaPDF Professional, you must post a comment below stating that you want to enter the drawing. If you do not state specifically that you want to enter the drawing, you will not be entered.
- You may only enter once and you may only win one license. Anyone caught trying to enter more than once or trying to win more than one license will be disqualified.
- 10 licenses are reserved for dotTech donors, authors, forum admins, and artists. If you fall in this category, please specifically state it in your comment (say “I am donor”, “I am author”, etc.) or else I may not know; also if you are a donor, use the e-mail you donated with so I can verify. The other 20 can be won by anyone.
- I reserve the right to award specific people licenses if I feel they have helped foster the dotTech family by being very active (the people who fall into this category is at my sole discretion).
When posting a comment, please make sure you enter an e-mail that is 100% valid and an e-mail you will check because the licenses will be distributed directly by my contact in Softland. If you win and don’t have a valid e-mail or an e-mail you don’t check, your license will go to waste. However, please don’t post your e-mail in your comment! You should never post your e-mail on a public form. Just enter the e-mail you want to be contacted at in the “E-mail” field when writing your comment – I will be able to get your e-mail from there. Or if you are a registered dotTechie, just post a comment normally and I will be able to find your e-mail.
By entering in this drawing, you give dotTech permission to give your e-mail to Softland – so they can contact you with your license information – if you win.
The winners of this giveaway will be determined using a random number generator when the giveaway ends (there will be a random number generation for the 10 reserved licenses, and there will be a random number generation for the other 20). The giveaway will end in 72 hours (on February 12, 2010).
Good luck to everyone!
Anyone that misses out on a free license can always purchase novaPDF from the homepage. The price ranges from $19.95 to $49.95 depending on what edition you want.
I would like to receive copy of Nova PDF Professional. I am currently unemployed and it would be a great help sending resumes and cover letters in the pdf format when requested.
Thank you for the offer
John Briick
I would like to enter the drawing, thank you Ashraf and Nova.
I would like to receive a copy of Nova PDF Professional. I am currently job hunting and it would be a help sending resumes and cover letters in the pdf format when requested.
Thank you
John briick
Hi Ashraf,
Please include my name. Hope i will b lucky this time.
Thanks in advance.
Well, everyone loves a freebie – albeit freebie-hunting for the sake of it is a bit, or even several bytes, daft: obsessive downloaders wind up with a computer full of trophies gathering electronic dust instead of a user-relevant collection of everyday working apps.
But dot.tech has never struck me as the haunt of the Iifiwees (If It’s Free I Want It) so the interest in this current offer is a good indicator of just how useful high quality .pdf software is to every computer user, everywhere.
By nature of my work, I use .pdf software a lot. I’m familiar with Nova’s lesser versions and have been impressed with them. Be nice, however, to see Softland getting around to mirroring Avanquest’s ability where its premium product is concerned: Nova PDF PRO still lacks the .pdf to Word converter incorporated within eXPert PDF PRO.
Where absolutely free .pdf software is concerned, I’ve still found nothing better than good ol’ Bullzip. It does, however, utilise Ghostscript. By contrast, Nova is self-contained, so neither Ghostscript nor .NET framework are called upon. That kind of independence may be of particular value to those with older computers.
Anyway. Two quick comments:
1) Sandeep’s post @ #29 and Ozzie’s @ #69: spot on. It takes almost no time at all to signal appreciation.
And:
2) It takes almost no cash at all, either, to give dot.tech some financial support. A little from many goes a long way. If every poster on this comment thread chucked a few dollars in Ashraf’s direction,
he’ll make $millions and I’ll be his agentthe collective value of those small donations will definitely help with the under-writing of Ashraf’s overheads.As to this, um, “Prize Draw”, please count me in: I don’t have Nova PDF PRO.
The category I occupy is one of Persistent Nuisance, as well as donor and one with fond remembrance of a fledgling blog called politically-motivated net.
Hmm. Whatever happened to that?
;)
I used NovaPDF v.6 before and I liked it. Would be great to win this new version. Hopefully Nova will bring out an indexing tool in future. When they do that I will buy it straightaway
I would like to be entered into the drawing for novaPDF Professional.
My computer need lettle 1 free licenses of novaPDF Professional!
Please include me in the drawing, I want to enter.
i want to enter the drawing.
HI
please count me in the draw, would certainly like to win one licence.thanhankyou very much for the giveaway
Thanks, I will like to get the license….if my luck is here today.
I would be so very grateful to win one copy of your software license. I have difficulty with accurate PDF printing from Firefox. I would be delighted to address this issue off-line if you would permit. Thank you!
Please consider me.
Thanks
I would like to enter the drawing for a copy of novaPDF professional.
I would like to be entered into the drawing for novaPDF Professional.
You bet I do! I use PDF utilities all the time and am always looking for better alternatives to Adobe.
Thank you!
Hello Ashraf, I have tried my luck several times with the previous draws but unfortunately could not make it. Trying again.Please include my name in this draw.Waiting with crossed fingers!
NovaPDF support many languages, is the one of the best PDF software in the world.
I would like to be entered into the drawing for novaPDF Professional.
I would like to enter the drawing. I have used the trial version, and have been really impressed with it.
I would like to enter the drawing. Thank you sir.
I would like to enter the drawing, thanks Ashraf and Nova.
I would like to enter the drawing. Thank you guys.
I would like to enter the drawing. Thank you :D