Talk:PDFCreator
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[edit] Importance
It was requested on the main article page that someone try to explain the importance of the subject matter; although I didn't write the article I thought that I would try to do that. I think PDFCreator is important (or at least as important as many of the other things that there are articles in Wikipedia on) because it's the only GPLed product for easily producing PDF files from any application, under Windows. At least that I've ever heard of. The reason this is important is because it solidifies PDF as an acceptable format to people who don't want to be locked into using proprietary tools: if all of the tools used to create PDFs were proprietary/non-free, then it's a much less open format. But the presence of GPLed tools to easily make PDFs mean that the PDF format can't be "closed off" by Adobe later on. That's at least the explanation I've been given.
It's also important, being GPL, because it can be used commercially without restrictions. There are a lot of little PDF printer drivers out there which are "free" in the sense of not costing anything to the non-commercial user, but they're useless in a commercial setting. A GPLed piece of software can be used without restrictions.
It might be more appropriate to roll this article into a bigger article on GPLed software projects, or perhaps "GPL software projects on non-free systems," (there are a few other Windows GPL applications that I can think of, which are not portable), rather than its own article.
Kadin2048 17:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Features
It would be nice to have a bit more information about the features of this software on this page. For example, I know that this can be used to create a pdf, but after installing the software can I also view pdf files that others send to me? Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.144.143.5 (talk • contribs) 04:33, April 11, 2006 (UTC)
[edit] No advertising clause
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I'd be interested to see how this article is anything aside from promotion of a specific product or service? Mgmirkin 19:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyvio
It seems as if a lot of this article has been copied from another site. It needs rewritten. bruce89 19:29, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
