On Apr 16, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Rik Tindall wrote:
Scott on Clear wrote:
I stumbled on some software that has helped me out. It is called
Fine Print and allows for multiple pages on one page and easy double
siding. There is a free version available which just prints out Fine
Print on the bottom of all pages.
Have a look here if interested.
http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html
I liked it so much I actually purchased the software.
Your money is better spent donating to a Free Open-Source Software
(FOSS) project, for the benefit of everyone instead of a private
software house.
FinePrint is about the only commercial software package that I purchase
and install on every Windows machine that I am forced to use. I'm
trying to encourage my current employer to purchase and roll out a few
thousand instances of it at the moment.
The same functionality is available under unix, with at least 'a2ps'
and probably with the various ghostscript variations out there.
However, given that there is an existing investment in Microsoft
Windows in place, the incremental investment in FinePrint is definately
worthwhile.
In my opinion, there is nothing inherently wrong or evil about charging
for software :-) especially when it's good useful stuff like FinePrint.
There definately *is* something inherently wrong about buying software
simply because you refuse to believe that open source is worth looking
at.
-jim, contrarian
