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Print full CD, DVD covers, with spine or not, using Cover Printer

Nodesoft Cover Printer is a free tool that lets you print easily DVD and CD covers, with or without a spine, scaling images to match the cover size you prefer. The program lets you use one image for the whole cover or two images. Drag and Drop is supported, but you can also use an […]

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Education Office Printing

Prepare your book for publishing, even with free templates, using BookWright

BookWright is a free program by Blurb, you can use to prepare your book for publication. It supports the creation of photo and trade books, magazines, ebooks and it provides convenient templates. The interface is pleasant and easy to use. You can drag and drop images anywhere you like, add text using text boxes or […]

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Office Printing

View, convert, print VariCAD, DXF, DWG, DWB, and 3D STP files, with VariCAD Viewer

VariCAD Viewer is a free and convenient application you can use to preview, print and convert VariCAD compatible file formats. Being far from a full editor, yet the program lets you also make some adjustments to CAD files such as DXF, DWG, DWB, etc. The program provides options for a lot of adjustments to let […]

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Office Printing

Design your ID cards or badges using templates, with ID Creator

Advanced ID Creator is a free program that provides templates you can start with to make your own ID cards and badges. Note that the development of the program has stopped. The version here published still works on Windows 10 without problems, but it’s not that “advanced” anymore. However, it can do your job. The […]

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File tools Graphics Office Printing

Open, print or convert easily AutoCAD DXF, DWG, SHX files, with de-caff Viewer

de-caff is a free and efficient viewer, printer and converter (not editor) of AutoCAD documents. If you don’t need to edit a document but only to view or print or even export to other formats, and you are working with DXF, DWG, or SHX files, de-caff Viewer will be a great help. The program is […]

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Graphics Printing System tools

Create camera Color Profiles and calibrate monitors and printers, with Argyll CMS

ArgyllCMS is a compatible with ICC free and advanced, but not easy to use, program that lets you profile your camera, film recorder or scanner to achieve accurate colors, even calibrate your monitor and printer. The program provides access to icclib and cgats libraries. Argyll CMS uses ciecam02 algorithm, and it enables 16bit and 8bit […]

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Graphics Office Printing

Create plotting Postscript files ready to print or PDFs, with Veusz

Veusz (“Views”) is a free program you can use to create plotting Postscript files ready to print or PDFs. Veusz features a graphical interface and also command line and scripting (Python) options. Note that Veusz support 2D plotting only, colorful 2D images and contours. Note also that the program aims rather at the scientific community, […]

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File tools Graphics Printing

Save your documents as JPG, BMP, TIFF images or PDF, with ImagePrinter

ImagePrinter is a free program that functions as a virtual printer. The program is built upon Microsoft universal printer driver, and is able to print any document BMP, PNG , TIFF, JPG and PDF formats, letting you also choose a compression level. If you want to save some documents as images, instead of printing them, ImagePrinter […]

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Printing Troubleshooter

How to protect the quality of your images in Microsoft Word

Before anything else, you need to make sure Word won’t damage the quality of your graphics, especially if you are going to print your document. Open Word’s Options > Advanced, go to the Image Size and Quality section at the right, and select any resolution equal or greater than 300 ppi. You can disable compression, […]

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Accessories Graphics Office Printing

Make custom postcards from your photos, even with templates, using Photo Card Maker

Photo Card Maker is a free program that lets you select a nice template to add your photos and write custom text, to turn your pictures into announcements, invitations, holiday cards, and more. With Photo Card Maker, you can create your own custom photo cards easily. You can save your cards as JPEG, BMP or […]

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