WinPDF for Windows

By PDFDesk Informatique
Free
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Key Details of WinPDF

Create PDF files and convert existing documents into PDF format.
Last updated on May 6, 2013
There have been 2 updates
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Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)

Editors' Review

Download.com staffMay 6, 2013

WinPDF from PDFDesk Informatique is a free tool for creating PDF documents via the Print properties. It installs a virtual printer on your system that you select via the Print command. It saves documents as PDFs in a directory of your choosing, or it can print them out as PDFs. It can convert other documents to PDFs, too. Though it's a free solution for creating PDFs, it adds a watermark on output, limiting its appeal.

Installing WinPDF adds the Easy PDF Creator printer software to your Printers directory, and you can access it like your system's other real and virtual printers. You can access the program's PDF settings from its main interface, a simple dialog with nine buttons, or from the Printer Preferences dialog. Among its options are Page Setup, Fonts Embedding, Document Information, and Encryption, which includes a password-setting feature and security selections. We browsed to a document, a JPEG image of a pen-and-ink drawing surrounded by text. We right-clicked the image thumbnail, selected Print, and then clicked Options/Print Properties on the dialog to select our preferences. Clicking Print opened a Save As dialog with PDF selected as file type; we simply had to name the file and browse to a folder to save it. We clicked on the saved file, and it opened with Adobe Reader, our default PDF application. The image and text were as clear as any PDF file we've seen. Next we tried a color image and a printer test page, which also saved correctly. Unfortunately, WinPDF added a watermark to each in the form of a line of blue text advising us to buy the full Easy PDF Creator Program to remove it. This was a disappointment, but the watermark line is barely visible and didn't make any part of the document unreadable, so if you don't mind it, it's not too big a problem, considering it's a free PDF creator.

WinPDF is an interesting free tool that would be more useful if it didn't add a watermark to the files it creates. Still, if all you need is a simple utility to create PDFs that can be opened by other applications now and then, it's more than up to the task.

What's new in version 2.02

Add support for Windows 8 64-bit and 32-bit

WinPDF for Windows

By PDFDesk Informatique
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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: May 6, 2013

Latest update: May 6, 2013

Version: 2.02

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 8
Windows 10
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 2003
Windows 2000
Windows Server

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 18,943

Downloads Last Week: 1

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User Reviews

1.5/5

10 User Votes

I like the free stuff, it does what it promised.
RogerGuruMay 9, 2013
Pros
Light-weight, easy-to-use.
Cons
Like most free PDF creator, free PDF printer, free PDF writer, free PDF converter on the web, it stamps watermark on the footer of my PDF page.
Summary
It does help me create quality PDF file for pre-press.
Absolute Fraud
cyberficFebruary 17, 2010
Pros
None at all
Cons
It gives watermark, doesnt provide live hyperlinks from web pages as advertised AND IT WONT UNINSTALL
Summary
stay away from this and if you have a method to uninstall it please post it here
Try PrimoPDF - perfect and free
robgrantrobNovember 12, 2007
Pros
Cons
Summary
liars - not free go elsewhere or use an online service
JemBAugust 17, 2006
Pros
easy to use
Cons
it's incorrectly and possibly illegally advertised as freeware. IT'S NOT. you get a big blue line at the bottom of every page asking you to buy to remove. these sort of people give the real open source movement a bad name. a waste of my time
Summary
Free???
deathnabJuly 4, 2006
Pros
It's free
Cons
This works, but it leaves a massive blue line at the bottom of each PDF saying that if you want the line removed, you need to buy the product! Download.com shouldn't say that this program has no limitations.
Summary
Huge limitation not turely advertised - BLUE line on each page - Do NOT download
ngananiJune 8, 2006
Pros
None - considering the blue line on the bottom - everything - without it...
Cons
I agree with all other 3 reviewers before me. It should NOT say Free-no limitations, if you intend to put huge big line at the end of every page in my PDF. i worked with WinPdf in the past and came looking for it again and this is not the right way to maintain customer confidence. Say it is not free anymore, but do not mislead me to download it only to find out about the blue line. also - no uninstall is provided.
Summary
don't do it!
rpnortonMay 29, 2006
Pros
PDFs are good quality, but that's the only good thing I can say about this software.
Cons
big blue text on all pages; no uninstaller; outrageous price to buy ($139).
Summary
How Annoying!
VintonMossAugust 21, 2005
Pros
The name.
Cons
I installed the application and on the bottom of my first PDF, I read… “This Document Was Generated with Easy PDF Creator. If You Want to Remove this Line, Buy It!” …if you would like this sentance on the bottom of every PDF you create in big bold blue print, don’t hesitate, download it now!
Summary
Not what it says.
comicfanJuly 26, 2005
Pros
It will create a pdf easily.
Cons
For one, it's false advertisement on their part, it says no limitations and free but when you use it you get that not so kind, in your face note at the bottom saying "if you want to remove this, buy it!" What a load. It should say it has a nag. And if you want to get rid of it, you better know how to do at least a simple search and delete files on your own.If you don't mind the nag at the bottom of each pdf page, w\o uninstaller, go for it.
Summary
No Uninstaller!
joshuaeOctober 14, 2004
Pros
Cons
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Run away! This program does, in fact, have a nasty little note in big blue letters on the bottom of every page generates. "Easy PDF Creator is professional software to create PDF. If you wish to remove this line, buy it now." More importantly, there is no uninstaller included, so once you have it -- good luck getting rid of it. I look in program files, add remove programs, etc. and nothing. It's a dirty trick, and an incomplete piece of software. Do not install this one.

Developer's Description

By PDFDesk Informatique

Create PDF files and convert existing documents into PDF format.

WinPDF is professional PDF creation software. It installs a virtual printer named "Easy PDF Creator", which enables users to create PDF files and convert existing documents into PDF format, though the print command offering PDF paper size, resolution, orientation, fonts embedding, live hyperlink, embedded images, formulas, tables, figures, encryption, document metadata, usage control, automatic and batch output.