Announcing the Creative Commons PDF Converter

20 Responses to “Announcing the Creative Commons PDF Converter”

1. BobChao on July 5th, 2007 12:11 pm

   hmm… It works great, but no XMP licensing info attached to the result PDF file. Will you add XMP support?

2. Yoav Ezer on July 5th, 2007 1:42 pm

   Hi Bob,

   Thanks.

   Yes…we know XMP licensing is a must and we are working on it Thank for leaving the comment. If you notify us of any more bugs or have more suggestions we will greatly appreciate it.

   -Yoav

3. Albert on July 9th, 2007 9:41 am

   Hey, I lost the colours in my new PDF document! Do you know why?

4. Yoav Ezer on July 9th, 2007 1:33 pm

   Unfortunately Albert, the CC PDF Converter does not currently support color printing.

5. Cogniview Brings CC Licensing to PDF Output - Creative Commons on July 12th, 2007 1:51 am

   […] Some additional details are available on “Cogniview’s blog”:http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/announcing-the-creative-commons-pdf-converter/; anyone want to write a similar tool for Mac OS X or Linux? […]

6. Jedi on July 12th, 2007 3:41 am

   As to XMP embedding, you do have http://www.cogniview.com/creative-commons-info.php project, don’t you? :-p

7. Yoav Ezer on July 12th, 2007 10:42 am

   Hi Jedi,

   True, but the CC Info Plug in only works if you have the Adobe writer. And it just does XMP embedding. We thought that the fact that the deed itself is merged to the original document is important to the use/spread of the produced PDF files as CC Licensed content. The CC PDF Converter will also embed the XMP data in the near future (once we iron out the bugs). I apologize for the mixed metaphor.

   To put it more simply

   XMP - for machines

   Visible deed/stamp - for people

   -Yoav

8. James Boyle on July 19th, 2007 4:19 pm

   Thanks for making this, Yoav! I look forward to using it
   Best, James

9. Free PDF Creator tool with Creative Commons addition: goes directly into my essential software collection! (http://www.cogmios.nl - Edward de Leau) on July 20th, 2007 2:22 pm

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10. Dan on July 21st, 2007 6:40 am

    I was just wondering if CC PDF will eventually support hyperlinks in the PDF documents it generates.

11. Yoav Ezer on July 22nd, 2007 10:36 am

    Hi Dan,

    We’ve been thinking about it and now that you’ve asked it, it will definitely be added to the future feature list

    Yoav

12. Yoav Ezer on July 22nd, 2007 10:41 am

    Hi James,

    It’s our pleasure. If you have any ideas for improvement or if you find any bugs, we’d love to hear about them.

13. Open Source .PDF Converter on July 26th, 2007 6:01 pm

    […] Codswallop announced an open source .PDF converter. In addition to doing the usual, it makes it easy to insert a creative commons license into your documents. […]

14. Anne Wayman on July 26th, 2007 6:02 pm

    yeah, clickable links and color are what I would want before I use it.

    Anne Wayman
    www.thegoldenpencil.com

15. Lourdes on July 29th, 2007 11:13 pm

    I dowloaded the pdf converter but when I tried to convert a short word file, it doesn´t work. I´m using Widdows XP and I can send the word file to the free pdf converter but it took long time and at the end I have to cancel the printing. please help!!!

16. Thang Nguyen on August 9th, 2007 9:04 pm

    Does it capable of programmatically converting a word file to pdf with CC PDF converter not manual? If it does, how?

    thanks,

    Thang-

17. Yoav Ezer on August 9th, 2007 9:31 pm

    Hi Thang,

    We will be releasing the full source code of the CC PDF converter in about a week. So you will be able to have full programmatic control over it. However, please note that it will be released under the GPL open source license. This means that if you integrate it into your application you will have to release the entire application under the GPL license.

18. Matt Keegan on August 23rd, 2007 10:09 pm

    I downloaded the file and am looking forward to using it in the near future. Thank you for taking the time to develop this tool.

19. Essential Tools Of Pro Blogger Chris Garrett on September 26th, 2007 2:22 pm

    […] CC PDF Converter - This PDF converter is useful for anyone wanting to create viral PDF ebooks. The CC PDF Converter is a free (open source) application that enables you to create PDF documents from almost any application (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and more). The CC PDF Converter also allows you to easily embed a creative commons license in your PDF file. […]

20. yenping on March 7th, 2008 1:15 pm

    This works beautifully. I converted both .docx and .doc formats and the pdfs rendered near perfectly. Thank you!

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