PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer. PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.
Key Features:
- Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
- Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
- Send generated files via eMail
- Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
- AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
- Merge multiple files into one PDF
- Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
- Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
What's new in this version:
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Improvements
- Improved Setup: Expert settings are now accessible with a single click
- PDFCreator can now sign and encrypt PDFs at the same time
- Includes PDFArchitect 0.5.6 and Images2PDF 0.9.0
- Improved performance with a really large amount of files in the queue
- Fixed ordering problem when a lot of print jobs arrive in quick succession
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Bug Fixes
- A Problem with Author token
- Some problems with dots and brackets in the title
- An error that caused an additional backslash in the ClientComputer token under certain circumstances
- Slow conversion of PS files from the command line
- Some problems with unicode in the metadata
- Some problems with pdfcmon on terminal servers
- A problem with user defined paper sizes
- PDFArchitect crashed, when the last page was moved
- Fixed some other minor bugs
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Known issues
- No hyperlinks possible (Hyperlinks for MS Word are possible with the combination of PDF-T-Maker and PDFCreator.)
Download: PDFCreator 1.4.0 | 17.8 MB (Freeware)
View: PDFCreator Website
