gDoc Fusion, which describes itself as an edocument builder application, lets technical writers create, review, edit, share and archive PDF and XPS documents.
gDoc Fusion’s file format conversion also lets tech writers drag and drop pages from a wide range of different file formats into a single document that can be saved as a PDF, XPS or Microsoft Word document.
gDoc Fusion has been designed specifically to ease the pressures suffered by office workers struggling with multiple document formats, offering straight-forward file format conversion and a number of special views to suit different ways of working.
"We created gDoc Fusion after extensive research into how people use office software. The over-riding message was that people want software that’s as easy to use as an iPhone, Facebook and other consumer gadgets," said Gary Fry, CEO, Global Graphics. "It’s so simple that users don’t need any training, which saves companies significant rollout costs."
Pricing and Availability
gDoc Fusion can be downloaded for free from http://www.globalgraphics.com/gdoc, MS Office macros and the converter that translates PostScript to PDF or XPS, is available for $49.00.
The full version of gDoc Fusion includes all of gDoc Creator and the viewing editor for working with PDF/XPS documents and is available for $99.00.
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Global Graphics' gDoc Fusion is an application for creating and editing documents in Adobe's PDF and Microsoft's XPS formats. It is designed for ease of use, and focuses on making common tasks simple rather than providing the entire range of features found in tools such as Acrobat Professional.
Available to download now, the gDoc line-up consists of two tools: gDoc Creator, which simply converts files between formats; and the fully-featured gDoc Fusion that integrates gDoc Creator but also allows users to drag-and-drop pages between files and edit the contents.
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Users can download the tools as a free trial version and purchase a licence key to upgrade at any time if they require greater functionality. GDoc Creator costs £49, while the full gDoc Fusion costs £99. The free version puts a watermark across all files the user creates.
We tested gDoc Fusion and found it quite straightforward to open a PDF, make some changes, then re-save the file as either PDF or XPS. The program also makes it easy to open multiple documents simultaneously and copy content from one to the other.
This level of functionality means that gDoc Fusion falls somewhere between simple PDF authoring tools that just perform a conversion and do little else, while staying easy enough for mere mortals to use, unlike Acrobat Professional.
For example, we used gDoc Fusion to open a Microsoft Word document containing a recent news article from vnunet.com, dropped in a page from a PDF data sheet and a Jpeg image of the product mentioned in the article, then re-saved the file as a new PDF.
The main screen of gDoc Fusion displays four icons representing its top-level functions: Quick Convert, Document View, Flick View and Page View. Users simply drag a file to the appropriate icon to open it, which can be an existing PDF or XPS file, a Postscript (.PS) file, or a Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint document.
Quick Convert converts a file to XPS or PDF using gDoc Creator. This appears to work well, but users should note that the appearance of the output file will depend on the page format settings in the original. We found that a wide spreadsheet kept getting spread across several pages until we changed the page settings in Excel to landscape and checked the 'fit on a single page' box
With gDoc Fusion, Global Graphics has created a tool that makes it easy to quickly amend a PDF or XPS document, as well as create a combined document from several different sources. Although it has fewer features than Acrobat Professional, many people that work with PDF files will find this tool a good fit for most of their needs, and much easier to use.
Pros: Easy to use; converts between PDF, XPS and Word documents
Cons: Lacks advanced features of Acrobat Professional
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