Guide To PDF Creator Software Download

By Claudine Hodges


PDFCreator is a free software under the GNU GPL (but contains adware licensed owner Spigot, Inc.) to convert printable files into PDFfiles for Windows applications using a virtual printer. Since version 0.9.7 (February 2009) contains an optional adware (closed source) that is installed by default (PDF creator software download). This conversion is done through the virtual printer PDFCreator. The results obtained are documents in PDFS format, even if they do not keep the active hyperlinks are faithful to original.

PDFCreator has many setting options that allow you to change the size of document created or Adobe Acrobat version used for compatibility. Sample file generated by PDFCreator version 0.8 (source): generated file. PDFCreator does not have as many features as Adobe Acrobat through the AdobePDF or Distiller printer depending on the version, which is the standard for creating PDFsfiles. PDFCreator can: Create PDFsfiles from any program with a printing function, including PDFS/A-1 formats (1b) and PDFS / X (X-3: 2002 X-3: 2003 and X-4). Send generated files via email, Merge multiple files into aPDFS (older versions only) and EncryptPDF and protect include the opening and printing.

Version 1.6.0 PDFSArchitect is a separate program which can indeed be selected on the setup of PDFCreator, but is then downloaded separately. Alternatively, you can also PDFSArchitect easily download and install separately. Next all the features of PDFSArchitect are no longer freely available, but only some rudimentary functions for free, everything else is chargeable.

PDFCreator runs on all Microsoft Windows operating systems from Windows 2000. Version 0.9.6, Windows Vista is supported version 0.9.7 Windows 7. Support for Windows 98 was adjusted with version 1.3.0. Although the PDFCreator is an open-source program that is supplied with the installation regularly changing adware and already selected in setup.

When you install PDFCreator a new Windows printer driver is created. As a result, can be created directly from any application PDFsfiles, which provides a print function. The putative sent to printer commands are used to create a PDFsfile. To generate the PDFsfiles PDFCreator is based on the API integrated also free software on Ghostscript. Some document types, such as PostScript, JPEG, and BMP, the software can also convert without having to use the print function in PDFsfiles.

PDFCreator is localized for multiple languages before. By default, contain at least one language file in application installer; by additionally available translation files 26 additional languages are used. The program supports popular method of 128-bit encryption of PDFSdocuments. It can not only create PDFsfiles from any document but also image files in several popular formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PCX, BMP) as well as PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript files.

It is one of most widespread Internet for document exchange formats. Therefore it is widely used by businesses, governments and educational institutions. It is an open specification for which were generated free software tools that let you create, view or edit documents in PDFS format. Examples LibreOffice.org and office automation suite OpenOffice.org and the typesetting system LaTeX.

From version 0.9.5 it is possible to PDFSdocuments in formats PDFS/A (1b) and PDFS/X (X-3: 2002, X-3: 2003 and X-4) to create. Therefore PDFSdocuments for long term archiving or for prepress can be generated. Also the sign PDFsfiles is possible. The necessary parameters to be set via the preferences dialog. Creating PDFS/A and PDFS/X documents is further improved. In addition, the graphics formats JPEG and BMP can now be directly converted into PDFS documents without having to print them first.




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