PDFCreator
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| PDFCreator | |
| Developer: | pdfforge |
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| Latest release: | 0.9.3 / August 25, 2006 |
| OS: | Microsoft Windows |
| Available language(s): | Multilingual |
| Use: | PDF writer |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | PDFCreator |
PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating system. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as their printer, allowing almost any application to print to PDF.
It is GPL-licensed free software, written in Microsoft Visual Basic, and depends on a few proprietary Windows components, such as HTML Help and Windows Printer Drivers, which practically makes it only available for Microsoft Windows environments. The actual PDF generation is handled by Ghostscript.
Besides being installed as a printer driver, PDFCreator can be associated with .ps files to manually convert PostScript to PDF format.
TheOpenCD project chose PDFCreator as the best-of-breed free software package for creating PDF files in Windows.
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[edit] Document restriction
PDFCreator allows the user to disable printing, copying of text or images and modifying the original document. The user can choose between two types of passwords, user and owner, to restrict PDF files in several ways. The former is required to open the PDF file, while the latter is necessary in order to change permissions and password. Encryption varies from 40bits, compatible with Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or 4.0, to 128 bits for Acrobat 5.0 or higher.
[edit] Windows Vista support
PDFCreator earlier than 0.9.3 has known Windows Vista compatibility issues. It does not work with either the 32bit or 64bit versions. Upon installation, the program will exit with an install package error. To remove it, disable User Account Control and uninstall.
