All MSI software,
including all BestInspectors.Net inspection reports, support PDF.
MSI software is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The PDF
print drivers listed below are for Windows PCs. Effective 01
July 2008, PDF is an International Standards Organization (aka ISO)
standard. Not all PDFs print drivers work the same. You
should try several PDF print drivers to see which one best fits your
needs. Learn more about Portable Document Format.
PDF Business Forms and
Inspection Reports
Title
Description
Requirements
Inspection Workflow Checklist
An interactive PDF version of the
BestInspectors.Net* Inspection Workflow Checklist. The Inspection Workflow
Checklist is a tool to help you keep yourself organized.
The Checklist has Reader Usage Rights (RUR). RUR allows
the inspector to complete the form and save the form with its data using only
the free Adobe Reader.**
An interactive PDF version of the
BestInspectors.Net* Pre-inspection Checklist. Ask your client and the real
estate agents to review the checklist to ensure that the property is ready for
you when you arrive for your inspection. The Pre-inspection Checklist is a tool
that will save everyone time and frustration.
The Checklist has Reader Usage Rights (RUR)
enabled.
An interactive PDF version of the Utilities
Release and Hold Harmless form.* This gives the inspector permission to turn on
utilities inside the house. The report has Reader Usage Rights (RUR)
enabled.
Reader Usage Rights, or RUR, allows
the user to complete the form and save the form with its data using only
the free Adobe Reader.*
A standard, non-RUR, fill-in-the-blanks PDF form allows the user to fill in the
form but the form data will not be saved with the form. Instead, the user must
print the completed form or create a flattened PDF by sending the form to a PDF
print driver.
*Reader X employs the latest in PDF
technology. Download Adobe Reader X below for maximum compatibility with all PDFs. Adobe Reader X is free.
Download instructions
You will receive an e-mail containing the download
links when you subscribe to the WPDF.com newsletter.
Microsoft Internet Explorer, right click on the
link and select "Save Target As..."
Firefox, right click on the link and select "Save Link As..."
Google Chrome, right click on the link and select "Save Link As..."
Apple Safari, right click (Windows) or click (Mac) on the link and select "Download Linked File"
PDF Readers and Utilities
Please note:
Software is provided here as a convenience to our
customers and visitors. We neither endorse nor provide
technical support for any PDF software. Contact the respective software publishers for technical support.
Title
Description
Requirements
Adobe Reader X
Adobe Reader X employs the latest in PDF
technology. Download Adobe Reader X for maximum compatibility with all
PDFs. Adobe Reader X is free.
Windows
7, Vista,
or XP. Adobe Reader for other operating systems is available free from Adobe.com
PDFCreator is a popular open
source print driver available free. It is provided here as for the
convenience of our customers.
Download PDF Creator
version 1.2.3.
Windows Vista and Windows 7
compatible!
Please note:
We do not provide
technical support for PDFCreator or any other PDF software. Contact the
publisher for technical support.
Microsoft Office SaveAsPDF is an add-in for Microsoft Office 12 (aka 2007).
SaveAsPDF is already included in Service Pack 2 so you only need this if you do
not already have SP2 installed. SaveAsPDF is only compatible with XL Pro
reports for 2007 or 2010 that have the Create PDF command on the main Command Bar
or Control Panel. PDF print drivers such as PDF Creator are compatible with
all BestInspectors.Net inspection report software.
The bioPDF PDF Writer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and
allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows
application. Version 7.2.0.1338.
Features
Print to PDF from almost any Windows program.
Supports 64-bit operating systems.
Direct output to the same file each time or prompt for
destination.
Control if the printer should ask if you want to see the
resulting PDF document.
Letter, Ledger, Legal, A3, A4, A5, 11x17, Note, A2, A6,
LetterSmall, A0, A1, A4Small, A7, A8, A9, A10, ISO B0, ISO B1, ISO B2, ISO B3,
ISO B4, ISO B5, ISO B6, JIS B0, JIS B1, JIS B2, JIS B3, JIS B4, JIS B5, JIS , 6,
C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, ARCHE, ARCHD, ARCHC, ARCHB, ARCHA, ARCHE1, ARCHE1
Half, FLSA, FLSE, HalfLetter, PA4, and Custom Page Sizes
doPDF installs itself as a virtual printer
driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes
list. To create PDF files, you just have to print your documents to the doPDF
pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or
any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to
save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened
in your default PDF viewer. Version 7.
A Swiss Army Knife GUI
application for PDF documents: combine, split, rotate, reorder (n-up, booklet),
watermark, edit bookmarks/ file info/ page transition, compress, encrypt,
decrypt, sign, repair, edit attachments and more. Version 1.1.
Free editor and tools for PDF
documents. Complete editing of PDF documents is possible with PDFedit. You can
change raw pdf objects (for advanced users) or use many gui functions.
Functionality can be easily extended using a scripting language (ECMAScript).
Professional page layout.
Scribus supports professional features, such as CMYK color, spot color,
separations, ICC color and robust commercial grade PDF. Version 1.4.0.
Portable Document
Format (PDF)
is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document
exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in
a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and
operating system.
Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout
2-D document (and, with Acrobat 3-D, embedded 3-D documents) that
includes the text, fonts, images, and 2-D vector graphics which
comprise the documents.
PDF is an open standard that was officially
published on July 1, 2008 by the ISO as ISO 32000-1:2008.
A PDF file consists primarily of objects,
of which there are eight types:
Boolean values, representing true or
false
Numbers
Strings
Names
Arrays, ordered collections of objects
Dictionaries, collections of objects indexed
by Names
Streams, usually containing large amounts of
data
The Null object
Objects may be either direct (embedded in
another object) or indirect. Indirect objects are numbered
with an object number and a generation number. An
index table called the xref table gives the byte offset of
each indirect object from the start of the file. This design allows
for efficient random access to the objects in the file, and also
allows for small changes to be made without rewriting the entire
file (incremental update). Beginning with PDF version 1.5,
indirect objects may also be located in special streams known as
object streams. This technique reduces the size of files that
have large numbers of small indirect objects and is especially
useful for Tagged PDF.
There are two layouts to the PDF files—non-linear
(not “optimized”) and linear (“optimized”). Non-linear PDF files
consume less disk space than their linear counterparts, though they
are slower to access because portions of the data required to
assemble pages of the document are scattered throughout the PDF
file. Linear PDF files (also called “optimized” or “web optimized”
PDF files) are constructed in a manner that enables them to be read
in a Web browser plug-in, since they are written to disk in a linear
(as in page order) fashion. PDF files may be optimized using pdfopt,
which is part of GPL Ghostscript.
A PDF file is often a combination of vector
graphics, text, and raster graphics. The basic types of content in a
PDF are:
text stored as such
vector graphics for illustrations and designs
that consist of shapes and lines
raster graphics for photographs and other
types of image
In later PDF revisions, a PDF document can also
support links (inside document or web page), forms, JavaScript
(initially available as plugin for Acrobat 3.0), or any other types
of embedded contents that can be handled using plug-ins.
PDF 1.6 supports interactive 3D documents embedded in the PDF.
Two PDF files that look similar on a computer
screen may be of very different sizes. For example, a high
resolution raster image takes more space than a low resolution one.
Typically higher resolution is needed for printing documents than
for displaying them on screen. Other things that may increase the
size of a file is embedding full fonts, especially for Asiatic
scripts, and storing text as graphics.
There are fourteen typefaces that have a special
significance to PDF documents:
Times (v3) or Times Roman PS MT (v4.x) (in
regular, italic or oblique, bold, and bold italic)
Courier (in regular, italic or oblique, bold
and bold italic)
Helvetica (v3) or Arial MT (v4.x) (in
regular, italic or oblique, bold and bold italic)
Symbol
Zapf Dingbats
These should always be present (actually present
or a close substitute) and so need not be embedded in a PDF. PDF
viewers must know about the metrics of these fonts. Other fonts may
be substituted if they are not embedded in a PDF.
Portable
Document Format (PDF)