Ice Cold Apps PDF Creator Ultimate is a pretty cool solution for those of you who need to scan documents or images and send them off. It is available for BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook but the PlayBook version is very basic and missing some key features like the ability to send off the PDF via email (probably because of API limitations).
PDF Creator Ultimate comes in both a free and pro version for $1.99 with the Pro version adding loads more features though the free version is functional. You can see the differences in the section below:
Free Features:
– Documents can be saved so they can be edited later
– Add pictures using the BlackBerry® build in camera application
– Add pictures from the memory and/or sdcard
– Move pages to change the order
– Delete a specific page
– Rotate and/or mirror an image
– Preview an image (including zoom functionality)
– Email the PDF using the build in BlackBerry® email manager
– Save the PDF to the device memory and/or sdcard
– Open the PDF with the default PDF viewer (if installed on your BlackBerry®)Features you get when you buy the full version:
– Add all the pictures from a folder on your BlackBerry®
– Replace an image with a new one
– Change the default document size (Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A4, etc)
– Change the size of a specific page (Letter, Legal, Tabloid, A4, etc)
– Change the default document padding (Top, Bottom, Left, Right)
– Change the padding of a specific page (Top, Bottom, Left, Right)
– Change the document information (Author, Title, Creator, Keywords, Subject, Producer)
– Cropping of images (draw a rectangular to which the image will be cropped)
– Resize an image (keep resizing ratio or not)
– Apply color filters to an image: Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Grayscale, Black & White, Sepia, Invert, Retro, Alien, Infrared, Filter red, Filter green, Filter blue, Swap colors, Solarize, Threshold
– Manual color filter for an image (change ARGB values)
– Apply an effect to an image: Bulge, Twirl, Water, Wave, Jitter, Time Warp, Pixelate (grid or not), Smoothen, Reflection, Tint, Sharpen, Emboss, Frei-Chen edge, Prewitt edge, Edge detect, Emboss color, Fisheye, Mean removal, Gaussian blur
– Partly color on part of the image (change paint color, size and transparency)
– Paint on the image (change paint color, size and transparency)
– Apply an effect to part of the image: Bulge, Twirl, Wave, Jitter, Pixelate
– Cloning tool for an image: clone brush tool
– Add text to the image (change font color, size and style)
– Post the PDF to your own server (with POST)
Thanks Tara for the tip!
