- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: January 03, 2010
- Total Downloads: 110,017
- Downloads last week: 2,146
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 49 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on May 05, 2009
It's not much to look at, but this program quickly and easily helps users convert files into PDF format, and comes at no cost.
PDFCreator has a very basic interface that won't win it any beauty contests. However, by keeping the visuals to a minimum, users will be able to quickly and easily navigate the program and get right to the task at hand. PDFCreator appears as a small, white, rectangular box with a thin strip of command icons along the top. Here you can print, look at options, navigate your files, and open new files. Below the strip is an open space that displays your selected file's name, size, and status.
After selecting a file for conversion, users are taken to another simple screen. This one asks users to create a file name, creation date, author, keyword and subject for the soon-to-be-created PDF. At the bottom of the screen are commands for saving the PDF or emailing it. The email option instantly adds the PDF as an attachment in your Outlook email.
We were impressed with the speed and ease we converted our files to PDF with PDFCreator. There may be more flashy conversion programs available, or ones that try to do more than this one, but for those just looking for an inexpensive and simple PDF converter, this one fits the bill nicely.
Publisher's description
From Pdfforge :PDFCreator is a tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Key features: create PDFs from any program that is able to print; security: encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened or printed; send generated files via e-mail; create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, and EPS; autosave files to folders and filenames based on tags like username, computer name, date, and time; merge multiple files into one PDF; PDFCreator also runs on terminal servers without problems.
What's new in this version:
Version 0.9.9 can define printing profiles to store settings for a certain purpose and load them when required and can have multiple PDFCreator printers that by default use one of the profiles.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 49 votes
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Version: PDFCreator 0.9.9
Pros: nada, it never worked
Cons: It would run.
Summary: not good
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Version: PDFCreator 0.9.9
Pros: Creates PDFS
Free of chargeCons: Latest version containts malware toolbar that gets installed without your permission and hijacks your browser.
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Version: PDFCreator 0.9.9
"Top-notch single- or multi-page PDF printing"
Pros: I use PDFCreator to create large, complex PDFs from CAD and word processing applications. PDFCreator does a great job of creating these PDFs. PDFCreator can be used to create single-page or multi-page PDFs, and works as a collating engine.
Cons: Once you've got all the pages up, you must select them all in the PDFCreator window and combine them, then save the final file as a PDF. This dialog is not the most intuitive design out there.
Summary: It's free and it does good work. It works on Windows 7 x64, Vista, XP... and it obviates the need to spend $400 for Acrobat. Other than PDFFactory, there are few products that do what PDFCreator does for free.
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Version: PDFCreator 0.9.9
"Does not work with Windows 7"
Pros: There are none.
Cons: I tried to create a PDF, and after several tries, tried the Windows 7 troubleshooting support and found out PDFCreator 0.9.9 doesn't work with Windows 7.
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