Generate or transform a PDF document by creating a new one in the editing suite or converting text and image files. The program supports editing the content, importing elements from Office products, customizing the backgrounds of PDF pages, etc. AES encryption is available.
PDFCreator is a powerful utility that does what its name says: it creates PDF files. It does that by installing itself as a virtual printer on your system and enabling you to convert any printable files to a PDF document by using the “Print” function from the application that you use to open those files.
Besides PDF documents, PDFCreator can also “print” to three image file formats: JPG, TIFF, and PNG. It also allows creating conversion profiles that let you quickly “print” to PDF files of different compression and quality levels.
The best thing about this powerful application is the fact that it offers a lot of handy additional features, options, and functions. For example, you can add watermarks and stamps to the created files, password protect and encrypt them using any of the 3 offered encryption levels, merge them together to one single output PDF file, add metadata to them, and so on. Furthermore, you can enable the application to automatically perform additional actions once the conversion is done. For example, you can automatically open the created PDF, add it as an attachment to an e-mail, or e-mail it right away.
Despite being powerful and feature-rich, PDFCreator is also very easy-to-use. It offers a simple interface that allows you to tweak the available settings with ease.
To sum it all up, PDFCreator is a powerful virtual PDF printer that leaves no room for complaint. As all other good things in life, PDFCreator is also free (open-source).
v1.9.5.604 [Feb 9, 2012]
Improvements:
-The manual is much more detailed on how to use the COM interface.
-When Outlook is the default E-mail client, PDFCreator now uses the ActiveX interface to open Outlook instead of the MAPI. This is more robust and does not make Outlook wait in the background until the mail is sent.
-Under some circumstances, the spool folder of some users ended with very restrictive permissions that wouldn't allow PDFCreator to read the print jobs. PDFCreator now detects this and offers to fix this permission issue.
-If no language is set, PDFCreator tries to find the best matching language based on the Windows interface language.
-There is a new command line parameter /ManagePrintJobs, which makes -PDFCreator start with the print job list opened. This allows to collect multiple print jobs and then proceed with auto-save.
-When using auto-save, the user can now control if existing files may be overwritten.
-The script action now also takes tokens in the path and parameters.
-The Title can now be customized with tokens as well.
-PDFCreator 1.9.5 is now available in 10 languages. If you language is missing, you can help translating PDFCreator here: http://translate.pdfforge.org.
-Includes Ghostscript 9.14.
Bugs fixed:
-When a Ghostscript error occurs, PDFCreator created an empty or broken output file and processed all actions. Now a message is shown instead and the error is logged.
-The print after save action did not show all system printers, but only PDFCreator printers.
-Compress for TIFs was disabled.
-Sometimes the controls for the PDF encryption strength were not updated when changing profiles.
-When the script action contained characters that are not allowed in Windows paths, the Window crashed due to an uncaught exception.
-Environment Variables from the volatile environment on terminal servers were not loaded properly, which could result in PDFCreator using the wrong temp folder.
