PDF24 Creator 11.3.0

PDF24 Creator

PDF24 PDF Creator installs a virtual printer driver that allows you to convert any printable document or image into PDF format. You can also import documents from your scanner, combine multiple documents into one and delete selected pages from existing PDF files. The program supports creation of secure, digitally signed documents, PDF quality settings, integrated preview, emailing, and more.

You can either drag'n drop documents onto the GUI or convert them from any other program by using the virtual printer driver - simply select the PDF24 printer instead of your regular paper printer.

Advantages of PDF24 PDF Creator:

Once installed, create PDF files forever
Free upgrades included
Conversion is simple and possible from all current programs
Freeware
Create PDF files from almost any application
Easy to use
Multilingual

Several features of PDF24 PDF Creator:

Merge and split PDF
Extract pages from a PDF
Copy pages from one PDF to another PDF
Integrated preview for easy PDF editing
Secure a PDF (Prevent from unauthorised opening, printing, etc.)
Set PDF information such as author and title

PDF24 Creator 11.3.0 changelog:

pdf24.exe backend system starts when together with the toolbox if the backend process is not already started

If the pdf24.exe backend system is not running, it is started by other PDF24 apps. The PDF24 Toolbox did not do this. This has now been changed so that the Toolbox also starts the pdf24.exe backend system.

Webview2 updated

The current version 103.0.1264.49 of Webview2 is now used. How to use the Evergreen version of Windows is described in the manual in the registry settings section.

Installer: More translations added
Installer: Checkboxes for creating the Toolbox/Launcher icons

The new checkboxes allow you to control which desktop icons should be created. Usually this is an icon for the toolbox. But now the user has the possibility to decide which icons should be created.

Installer: MSI Installer detection integrated

If another PDF24 installation via MSI already exists, this will now be detected by the EXE installer.

Toolbox: Fixed problem when closing the app

Closing the application window right after it appeared could result in a process still running in the background. This problem is fixed.

Toolbox: Create bookmarks based on file names

The Merge PDF and the Images to PDF tool have now received an option to create bookmarks based on file names. Some users have requested such a feature.
If the bookmark function is used with the Merge PDF Tool, then the Java-based implementation is always used when executing the function, since this feature is only available here.

Toolbox: Problems with merging many PDFs fixed

The Java-based PDF implementation had a problem merging hundreds of files due to command line length limitations. This problem has now been fixed. We have implemented a new command execution mechanism to overcome this limitation and to generally increase flexibility for features we will add in the near future.

Toolbox: Javascript workers are now destroyed

The previewer now destroys the pdfjs webworker when the previewer is closed to release resources.
The PDF page renderer, which renders all pages of the PDF, now also destroys the pdfjs webworker when all pages have been processed.

Toolbox: Potential toolbox crash fixed

The PDF thumbnail generator now uses an executor to limit the number of thumbnail generators running in parallel. The toolbox could crash because too many resources were used by massively parallel running thumbnail generators.

The following tools are included in the new PDF Toolbox of PDF24 Creator 11: