In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers a PDF solution with legal-specific features, a Word add-on for law firms, and a solution for administrating stock and stock option plans without running afoul of regulations such as FASB 123R. Don't miss the next issue.
Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:
Not Just PDF, PDF for Law Firms
By Dennis Kennedy
With the number of PDF solutions growing like gangbusters, consumers have become pickier. While price remains important, it has become imperative for PDF vendors to further differentiate their products by focusing on the needs of a specific market such as legal.
A good example is DocsCorp's pdfDocs Desktop, which combines affordability with many features and an integrated desktop approach. PdfDocs Desktop enables everyone in your firm to create, secure, and manage PDF documents, and integrates with popular document management systems.
You can easily create PDFs by printing documents, spreadsheets, email, and Web pages to the pdfDocs printer. You can also create PDFs by dragging and dropping a document onto the pdfDocs Organizer workspace area. The program also handles PDF forms — both creating them and filling them out — a feature that has become "must have" for many law firms.
pdfDocs Desktop helps you secure your documents by both password protection and metadata removal. You can prevent readers from modifying documents, and control who can open and view them. You can also redact information from sensitive documents using a special redaction tool.
pdfDocs Desktop can merge documents created by different programs into a single PDF, rearrange documents, change the order of pages, insert page numbers, and add bookmarks, highlights, logos, watermarks, notes, and Bates stamps. In short, you can perform a wide variety of useful tasks that one-trick-pony PDF creation programs will not let you do.
Of special interest to law firms is pdfDocs Desktop's ability to integrate with popular legal document management systems from Hummingbird, Interwoven, Worldox, and others, enabling you can create PDF files easily with a right-click of your mouse from within those systems. You can also easily save your PDF files in the appropriate folders.
pdfDocs Desktop also integrates with Outlook to automatically convert email attachments to PDF format, and email multiple attachments as a single PDF file on the fly. pdfDocs Desktop also integrates with scanners.
Pricing for pdfDocs Desktop starts at $126 plus $24 per year for support, but volume discounts are available. Learn more about pdfDocs Desktop.
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