PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on November 29, 2011

There are plenty of tools that let users convert a variety of different document types into PDF files, but we're not sure we've ever seen one as comprehensive as PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free. This useful tool not only converts documents to PDFs, but also supports a number of different image formats and lets you adjust a wide variety of settings. If you need a way to take advantage of the characteristics of PDF files without investing in expensive software, give PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free a try.

The program can be accessed from virtually anywhere in Windows; once it's installed, it will appear with your other printer options in the print dialog of any program. A configuration menu lets you set your PDF preferences, including output options, optimization, description, security, view preferences, and presentation. There's a whole slew of PDF tools, too; you can merge multiple PDFs, add headers and footers, apply watermarks, rotate and crop pages, and more. PDFs aren't all the program does, either; documents can also be saved in the PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIF, and GIF formats. PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free is easy enough for anyone to use, but its powerful features will please more advanced users, too. A built-in Help file provides a thorough overview of the program's features and includes plenty of screenshots. Overall, we think that PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free is a great thing to have around; it's easy to access when you need it, stays out of your way when you don't, and it packs a lot of useful features that anyone who works with PDFs will appreciate.

PDFill PDF and Image Writer installs a desktop icon without asking and leaves a folder behind upon removal.

 

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Publisher's Description

From PlotSoft:

Create free PDF or Image using PDFill--a free creator for high-quality conversion to PDF or Image, comprising a user-friendly interface that enables printing to PDF or Image from virtually any Windows application. A PDF Button inside Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel is added to save PDF with one click. Create PDF with options: Optimize PDF output for screen, print, e-book and prepress; Add PDF information such as title, author, subject, keywords; Secure PDF with password in 40/128 bit and Permissions; Add View and Presentation effect when the PDF is displayed; Rotate PDF Page by 90/180/270 degree or Crop page with margins; Open, E-mail, Merge, Split, Reorder, Reformat, Header, Footer, Watermark after the PDF creation.

Create Image with options: PNG/JPG/BMP/GIF/TIF, Color/Gray/Mono Format, Resolution, Quality, Page number format, Antialiasing Alpha Bits for Text or Graphics, Rotate by 90/180/270, Flip horizontally or vertically. Output options with default folder, file name and print job name to hide the Save-as dialog; You can set all the options in the registry keys programmatically.

What's new in this version: Version 9.0 has a lot of bugs fixed. The Save As Dialog can switch the File Type of PDF, PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF and TIF. Add Option for the existing PDF: Replace it with Warning, Replace it with NO warning, Append or Prepend it.

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