Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

TGB72 reviewed v2.3.0 on Mar 10, 2016

Full of spywares, bundled with an unsolicited 30mb soft that I don't need and the worst of all is that the pdfs that creates have watermark, a piece of junk.

Joseph A reviewed v2.1.1 on May 29, 2015

Sorry! I meant version 2.1.1, not 2.2.1 in my previous review.

Joseph A reviewed v2.1.0 on May 28, 2015

PDFCreator is now at version 2.2.1. It has abandoned its old ways and does not add unwanted stuff anymore. At least in the "expert installation" mode. In the past even expert installation needed a lot of attention to avoid this "extra" stuff, for it was inconspicuous.

Now the only optional addition is the "Images to PDF" program, which is clearly shown. I even chose to install it.

Now I can give it five stars.

Alchemar reviewed v1.7.0 on Jun 24, 2013

Hijacked Chrome, Firefox, and IE. Changed homepage to MSN. Would reset homepage to google and as soon as browser was reopened it switched homepage to MSN again.

It took hours to track down because I installed other software and lots of updates in the last few days, but uninstalled PDF Creator and it went away. Re-installed and it came back. Uninstalled and it went away again.

Never got the toolbar that others have noted might be installed. Just switching the homepage.

uzi reviewed v1.7.0 on Apr 20, 2013

The best among PDF printers that I have tested. It never distorted a page, even in cases where other PDF printers (including some non-free ones) failed to do a good job.

Beware however, to use custom installation and to choose what to install as it comes with optional stuff that many people do not need, including offers from advertisers that are irrelevant for its task.

The PDF Architect program that comes with it, and which is also freeware and developed by the same developer, may or may not be useful for you. Up to the recent version, there was no option to customize its installation, but this has been fixed in version 1.7, and you may now choose not to install it, or as I chose - to install it but with no plugins that integrate it with other programs.

-Lord- reviewed v1.6.2 on Jan 16, 2013

First, it does what it says it will do. I prints to PDF.
Second, it does what it doesn't say it will do, and that is that it bundles additional software. Yes, you can decline the install of part of the crapware that it comes loaded with, but then it forces the install of Adware in the form of PDF Architect, which will also attempt to integrate it into the browser. While some, like the reviewer before me, will say "hey that's great and this is a terrific program", others like myself and the technologically inclined that he's raving against, would rather not have some program take liberties with a system when all we were looking for in the first place is a simple printer driver that will print to pdf file.

For this reason, middle of the road marks with a recommendation that you seek something else like Bullzip PDF printer.

Developers... get a clue. Let people know your stuff is out there, but don't force feed it.

New Doraemon reviewed v1.6.2 on Jan 15, 2013

I'm amazed at the latest comments. People here are supposed to be geeks in some way. I can't believe that you're crying about a checkmark or a "decline" button. Seriously, are you THAT short-minded? The program itself is very good and now they even offer a light version of an Acrobat-like app for free. Yes there's adware THAT CAN BE AVOIDED. I understand that my clients CANNOT read through the several NEXT > NEXT > NEXT install dialogs but YOU?

DonGato reviewed v1.5.0 on Aug 30, 2012

A really good program that turned really bad. Uninstalled and telling people to avoid it from now on.

Aegis69 reviewed v1.4.1 on Jun 19, 2012

scumware

avoid!!!!!!!!!!

pjafrombbay reviewed v1.4.1 on Jun 18, 2012

This is still crapware! Should be rated as "0" but its not available. Either the developer does not read comments about his product or (and most likely) does not care what we think. Complaints of "crapware" have been around for several years. Why does FileForum continue to list such software?

See my previous comments below.

Regards,
Peter

Cuelebre reviewed v1.4.0 on Jun 4, 2012

Again OpenCandy included on installation. There are better alternatives out there.

ArKay74 reviewed v1.3.1 on Mar 22, 2012

Used to be a great programm... However, the bundled SweetIM broke my Google Chrome profile so all of my other extensions and settings were lost. Beware.

tontito reviewed v1.2.3 on Sep 11, 2011

pjafrombbay you do feel convulsive for letting this product down, even if you gave a new suggestion every time.

If you know how to install the product you will not get any crap on your pc.

Get a life

pjafrombbay reviewed v1.2.3 on Sep 10, 2011

One star because there is no "Zero" star option.

This is crapware; try Sumatra PDF at http://blog.kowalczyk.in...df/free-pdf-reader.html

Regards,
Peter

pjafrombbay reviewed v1.2.2 on Jul 31, 2011

This used to be THE BEST PDF printer (IMHO) then the developer started including "crapware". I have been critical of this practice in the past, even offering to pay for a "clean" version. I checked the products website with this new release and tried the download. The download is an ".exe" file and there is no indication that the "crapware" has been removed so I cancelled the download and continue to use dopdf (the NEW BEST PDF printer) - http://www.dopdf.com/

Regards,
Peter

PS: a rating of * is too high for crapware but is the smallest available.

velveteen reviewed v1.2.1 on Jul 21, 2011

Instead this one, I choose nemopdf (http://www.nemopdf.com), it can convert word to pdf accurately and vice versa!

crisulici reviewed v1.2.1 on Jul 7, 2011

I am using also Pdf creator for a long time and I am very pleased of the program.
Also i have recently installed version 0.9.7 of the software with the browser toolbar component.
I think that this toolbar it is very useful to search anything, on yahoo, ebay and amazon.
It gives the opportunity to connect to ebay website automaticall that from my point of view is very good because I am an ebay client.
Having less free time, this toolbar is giving me the opportunity to quickly access ebay, amazon and to seek necessary information on yahoo search.
Like other search toolbars, web page image results are visable in a search tray for easy review of not only the visual images of the site but also the written headlines.
This is not spyware or adware.

Searching through other threads I found these links that I think can help everyone

http://www.spigot.com/uninstall.html
http://www.spigot.com/network_error_assistant.html

pjafrombbay reviewed v1.2.1 on May 19, 2011

DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE! I gave this product 1* because you can't give 0*'s.

If you need a PDF printer/creator then try doPDF (http://www.dopdf.com/) it works well and does not contain crapware.

Regards,
Peter

cricri_pingouin reviewed v1.1.0 on Dec 2, 2010

It does bundle an addon/toolbar (spyware?), but I unticked the option suring the install and it installed cleanly. It also worked well on on the web page I tried.
I take one point out because of the bundled addon/toolbar, but only one because unselecting it does a clean install. I think I'm being generous, so consider this a 3.5 rounded up!

Keverin reviewed v1.0.2 on Aug 17, 2010

malware.

pjafrombbay reviewed v1.0.2 on Aug 16, 2010

I used this application for years then they started to install "crapware" even when you asked for it not to be installed. Great product ruined.

I have switched to doPDF (http://www.dopdf.com/) and find it just as good as PDFCreator but without any of the problems.

Do yourself a favor; uninstall PDFCreator and use any of the other good alternatives.

Peter

rip_pit reviewed v1.0.1 on Jun 15, 2010

i unchecked "install yahoo bho" during install but when i checked install FF addon it totaly hijacked FF36 browser search behavior!! with pdfforge toolbar ?!

installing pdfforge is not very clear in the setup process + it install another "updater" program.
Just stay with 0.9.9 while you can !

or do a proper installator

bopb99 reviewed v1.0.0 on Jun 1, 2010

PDFCreator has one huge shortcomming.
It doesn't do links!!!
Very unpleasent if you have a webpage with a lot of links in it.
It gets two points off just for that.

Seems the previous commenters found a few bugs in v1.0.0, hopefully they correct it soon.

Enlightenment reviewed v1.0.0 on May 31, 2010

NO free program should ask or change Default Search Engine! Stop this practice!

NO one needs another darn browser add on by default! Stop this practice!

zapatero reviewed v1.0.0 on May 31, 2010

Good. After 10 years of development, it finally arrived at v. 1.0.0.

Earwicker reviewed v1.0.0 on May 30, 2010

Careful during the install if you don't want the toolbars! Otherwise this is one of the finest PDF creation tools out there, and it's free; I'm not sure how anyone can justify anything less than 5 stars.

anomoly reviewed v1.0.0 on May 28, 2010

installed and opted out of the toolbar twice but it fails to create pdf's that have any content AT ALL. If you like blank pdf's this is the project for you.

MCHAL reviewed v0.9.8 on Apr 9, 2009

It's a good program, but then again one can easily opt for OpenOffice, which produces (in my humble, unexpert opinion) fine PDF files, with bookmarks and all.

By the way, guys, how about a Pro PDF suite for FREE?! Download both versions, install version 4, save its Registry keys, delete all v4 files and then install version 6. Voilà! Works fine for me!

Interested? Grab them quickly, while still available! Here:

http://dottech.org/freebies/5859

Greetings from Ri(;) Brazil.

joltdude reviewed v0.9.8 on Apr 8, 2009

This should be considered adware and the intentionally misleading way to opt out... (Even if you dont agree to adding Yahoo search to the toolbar (originally i thought it was an option to add the toolbar WITH yahoo search), it is STILL autoselected and enabled during installation unless you explicitly uncheck it from installing.. Just telling people this is NOT GOOD ENOUGH)....

This is particularly egregarious behavior for an OSS app, if one doee not opt for the toolbar, one should NOT have it try to insert itself in the install tree and have to manually unselect it AS WELL

This is an OPEN SOURCE APP.... SHAME ON YOU for trying to make a profit at the expense of users privacy AND security.

Shame. I always liked this app.....but like a relationship with baggage, the baggage has got to go, or it will permanently be uninstalled never to be seen again.

If your that desprate for income, at least use a known "safe" toolbar from one of the major players with predictable behavior (Google/MSN/etc) and not some piece of obscure spyware that redirects your serches through itself

(this is the toolbars post-uninstall link)
http://pdfforge.mybrowserbar.com/index.html

n8p reviewed v0.9.8 on Apr 8, 2009

Best PDF printer out there. I recommend it to everyone.

@Pheno:
I had the same issue, but found out PDFCreator isn't the one generating that stamp. You need to disable time/date/url printing within the browser itself.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.9.8 on Apr 8, 2009

The best free PDF Printer out there.

Pheno reviewed v0.9.7 on Mar 12, 2009

I love PDFCreator. I've been using it for less than a year now, but can say that it's met my expectations and more. And it's open-source!

The only question I have to resolve is whether PDFCreator can stop putting in datetime/fileinfo/websiteinfo/etc as headers and footers by default.

anomoly reviewed v0.9.7 on Feb 4, 2009

I have always preferred this over all others. Vista will never be an issue.

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.9.7 on Feb 4, 2009

"Improvements:
- Create very small PDF/A files
- A new version of the pdfforge.dll supports direct creation of PDFs from images and can create booklets
- Supports Windows 7 Beta
- New Browser Add On
- Many minor improvements

From now on, we are trying to shorten the release cycles to serve bug fixes and new features faster that we did in the past. "

DjVasile reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 22, 2008

kills IE7 and IE8 on Windows Vista, crashes with event BEX or AppcrashB1, had to manually disable browser add-on before IE became usable again ;)

boaz reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 21, 2008

I used to use this program a lot. However since my new machines are now running Vista, this program doesn't work as well in Windows Vista. So, on my Vista machines I am using Bullzip which is also free.

Chocobito reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 20, 2008

Good, but I still prefere MagicPDF, also support for Vista and its free.

mmoak reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 20, 2008

Vista support should be updated. Nice program albeit a tad on the big side.

buggy123 reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 20, 2008

Vista is supported now (took so long!) Someone please update the OS support thanks. : )

guti reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 20, 2008

Good to be open source, but being more than 15 meg, compared with the 1 meg of the also free doPDF, is a bit excesive.

Anyway, PDFFactory, is a lot of better (but also expensive).

Ciolouse reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 20, 2008

* Full vista support
Yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 20, 2008

Wish it has a good uninstall/install script. Anyone?

kucinghitam reviewed v0.9.6 on Sep 19, 2008

nice..
----------------
changes log/Improvements:

* Using GPL-Ghostscript 8.63 now.
* Full vista support
* Following file formats are supported : PDF (including PDF/A (1b) and PDF/X (X-3:2002, X-3:2003 and X-4), PNG, JPEG,BMP, PCX, TIFF, PS, EPS, TXT, PSD, PCL, RAW
* Support for signed PDFs.
* Added some new com-samples.
* Direct conversion for faster processing of JPEG and BMP images without printing added

http://www.pdfforge.org/node/1975

Earwicker reviewed v0.9.5 on Jul 17, 2008

One of the best PDF/post-script creators I have used. Only slight grumble is that sometimes document titles confuse Google, but I don't suppose that's entirely the fault of PDFCreator/Ghostscript.

A top recommendation.

Onsoku reviewed v0.9.5 on Mar 17, 2008

Faithful user for the last couple of years...but when do you plan to address Vista?

Chocobito reviewed v0.9.5 on Mar 4, 2008

A little big file size for to little, I don't like the very little optimize pdf file result, I like more optimize and little file size result pdfs from http://www.magicpdf.com/ also free.

De Julien reviewed v0.9.5 on Feb 26, 2008

One big bug !

poisonu reviewed v0.9.5 on Feb 14, 2008

Superb!!

jerry4dos reviewed v0.9.5 on Jan 25, 2008

This works perfectly.

molumen reviewed v0.9.5 on Dec 25, 2007

From the notes located at sourceforge:
Known issues:
- Only basic Vista support.
- No hyperlinks possible (Hyperlinks for MS Word are possible with the combination of PDF-T-Maker and PDFCreator.)

I still give it a 5 because it does its job quite well on XP. Support for Vista (full) is on its way, be patient.

It is not true that it doesn't produce standard compliant PDF code, all depends of the used specification. Also, PDF is produced by Ghostscript 8.61, not PDFCreator itself.

At http://www.pdfforge.org/node/1058 there is an announcement about a solution hunt under Vista with a $150 bounty. If you want to help and you're a programmer then have a look there.

AhmetIhsan reviewed v0.9.5 on Dec 25, 2007

I used "run as Administrator" command and could succesfully install on vista.but on some outputs I had problems.

zvone reviewed v0.9.5 on Dec 25, 2007

to halc:
PDF is not closed/proprietary file format.
It is open standard, soon to be ISO certified.
Adobe holds patents to it, but licenses them for royalty-free use in developing software.

I frequently use PDFCreator, and I don't know if it produces 100% compliant PDF code or not, but my PDF files created with it, opens without problems in Adobe Reader and Foxit.

alanpalmer reviewed v0.9.3 on Aug 31, 2007

Good, but can't be installed on Vista.

halc reviewed v0.9.3 on Dec 7, 2006

Does not produce 100% compliant PDF code.

Then again, maybe Adobe is to blame for that (bad documentation, in practice a closed format, etc).

I hope it'll improve.

We need an open version or alternative to the Adobe hegemony.

It's just silly that Adobe has a complete business around a closed/proprietary file format.

Autocad used to have that, so did Microsoft (with Office/excel/ppt).

Both have lost/given up on it, because it's not in the best interest of the consumer.

When will Adobe users understand this?

yokozuna reviewed v0.9.3 on Aug 28, 2006

I wanted to print some simple Web pages (I use Opera 9.01). PDFCreator produces files which cannot be opened by Adobe Reader (seem to be damaged). Other PDF programs produce them without any problem.

minasinahanmetehe reviewed v0.9.3 on Aug 26, 2006

Very good.
As lhdal notes, this does not handle links and bookmarks. To do hat pdf printer needs ome sort of integration with the printed application, right? PDFCreator works as a printer, but as a very good one.
Btw. extendedPDF http://www.3bview.com/epdf-download.html for OpenOffice gives excellent results with TOC, links, bookmarks.
Bookmarks are even compiled as destinations.

dejavu reviewed v0.9.3 on Aug 25, 2006

Excellent FREE software!

lhdal reviewed v0.9.2 on Aug 19, 2006

Very fast and versatile.

I guess it is not 1.5 compatible though.

Also it can't process hyperlinks or advanced tags.

This is due to the "printing" of the document instead of "conversion".

Some PDF creators I know are capable of doing this.

And I rarely prepare a document without a table of contents.

Perezoso reviewed v0.9.2 on Jul 13, 2006

Going backwards. More bugs with every release. In 15 minutes I got bitten twice. 1.- Garbage characters inserted in PDF properties (title, author, etc.) - 2.- Several minutes of 100% CPU usage when saving settings:
http://sourceforge.net/t...d=57796&atid=485457

robin_v reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 23, 2006

This version runs much faster than 9.1 on my PC.
Great little program. Simple, fast and efficient.

alanpalmer reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 23, 2006

It has worked flawlessly for me. I don't need anything like the tools offered in Acrobat, just a simple pdf converter. It does its job and is free!

ds0934 reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 23, 2006

Pretty cool, but why does the screenshot show 0.8.0? C'mon, get with the program.

JaapB reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 23, 2006

I agree, Adobe is better but this one is free. It is the best free PDF software I ever worked with. And if you combine PDF creator with the options offered by PDF 995 there is about nothing to wish for.

gatekiller reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 23, 2006

This is most certainly one excellent PDF creation program that most people should have... However, Since the release of 0.9.2, they have included some sort of (silly) toolbar for internet explorer. This is why I am rating it as a 4 and not a 5, otherwise, amazing program!

Earwicker reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 23, 2006

There's a wee bug in the document properties dialogue - it enters a load hash for the name of the Author unless you leave the Date Modified form blank. Otherwise fabulous. Does exactly what it says on the tin, very very well.

naldino2006 reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 23, 2006

Excellent software and is free!
Thank you!

photonboy reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 22, 2006

It can't compare to Adobe products, but then it is free. It's worth the rating.

I tested this using Word, IE7 and a couple other programs. Basically, if this does the job then why pay for something else? And if it doesn't there are other products such PDF Exchange which might do a better job.

I'm beta-testing Office 2007 and I can save as PDF right from Word (save as "PDF or XPS") but due to licensing issues Adobe is forcing Microsoft to remove it. Office 2007 is starting to use Markup language which I doubt freeware is likely to convert any time soon, however you can convert it back to .DOC and then print to PDF.
I think there's too many formats for documents, video and audio but what are you going to do? (Whatever happened to .txt files, VHS video and vinyl records?)

mjm01010101 reviewed v0.9.2 on Jun 22, 2006

"There are a few improvements. Some hidden Features that had only been available as hidden settings can now be accessed through the user interface, i.e. Running a Program or scripte before and after creating the PDF and printing the file after creating the PDF.
There is also a Toolbar for the Internet Explorer, which allows to create PDFs of the websites with a single click.

The COM Interface has been anhanced as well as some small bugs have been fixed.

Having the Toolbar brought us some trouble with the MSI Installer. It is not flexible enough for our needs, so we decided that there is no MSI package at the moment. But we can provide anyone interested (like System Administrators) a package with our without the Toolbar if it is required for some purpose as deploying it in an Active Directory."

Good work!

edit: server interface corrupted after 5 minutes of use, and I couldn't get to work right. Guess we'll just install locally through script.

Poor documentation.
Toolbar is intrusive, but I suppose that is how they pull in money. I'd rather donate to them than use it.

Sam_I_Am reviewed v0.9.1 on Jun 11, 2006

The program does all that it claims to do, and more. Being freeware, what more can you expect or want from it?

In my experience it has performed flawlessly, has many high-end features, and costs absolutely nothing to use. Two thumbs up to it's creators!

spiked reviewed v0.9.1 on Apr 23, 2006

Nice piece of freeware continues to improve, but don't get carried away with exaggerations about the cost of Adobe Acrobat. Freeware like PDFCreator is not comparable to Acrobat Professional or even Acrobat Standard. The proper comparison would be to Acrobat Elements, which currently sells for about $27 (street price for retail SKU; can be even lower for corporate volume licensing).

If your needs are covered by freeware, go for it. But don't pretend that it saves you hundreds of dollars when it really only saves one week's worth of Starbucks coffee.

guti reviewed v0.9.1 on Apr 22, 2006

Not bad. But if you can afford to pay, PDFFactory is a faster, and better alternative.

sixpac reviewed v0.9.1 on Apr 22, 2006

With great software like this why pay rediculous amounts of money for Adobe.

utomo reviewed v0.9.1 on Apr 22, 2006

It is nice.
But already many pdf creator, but only few PDF extractor which work correctly.

example to extract the pdf to get the text and image is not smooth yet.

Blue_Horse reviewed v0.9.0 on Feb 8, 2006

And awesome it is! I would give it a 10/10 if I could! I am running it on a PIII/Win98SE/256M platform and it is *very* fast. I have used of over several beta versions and, while reasonably happy with it, I have not been entirely satisfied. But now, with version 0.9.0, the author has really got it right! I can now send fully formatted WordPerfect 2000 and Word 2000 documents, etc., to a few friends of mine, with even older computers than mine, without any fancy word processing programs on them but who do, at my insistence, have Foxit PDF Reader (another gem!) on their small hard drives.

Two real gems!

oompoop reviewed v0.9.0 on Jan 29, 2006

Great!
... but with older/slower machines there's an extraordinary occasion having extended teatime ;-)
... and you should have FOXIT, too!

Dwiebelhaus reviewed v0.9.0 on Jan 25, 2006

This Program Rulz the internetS!.... the reader is amazing as well big kudos to these people and to hell with adobe's big bloated old lady.

Kramy reviewed v0.9.0 on Jan 21, 2006

Awesome stuff! Even works on my old 98SE box!

Tokar reviewed v0.9.0 on Jan 21, 2006

Best PDF writer available. And its free!

Keith. reviewed v0.9.0 on Jan 21, 2006

Simple to use and good quality output

minasinahanmetehe reviewed v0.8.1 RC10 on Dec 13, 2005

I have Adobe, PDFCreator and OpenOffice.
Adobe is complex, too many options.
PDFCreator is a very good pdf writer. Best free one I have encoutered. I have used it for 2+ years
spiked: Are you giving 4 points for application or for the download link in Betanews? To have a single shot I would choose also the same version as Betanews use.
OpenOffice includes good embedded pdf writer.
More and more I found myself using OpenOffice. It is simple and output is good.

Jeavis reviewed v0.8.1 RC10 on Dec 1, 2005

Best free PDF writer out there!

spiked reviewed v0.8.1 RC9 Beta on Sep 29, 2005

Unfortunately, this is just a front-end for Ghostscript and Redmon, which have both been around for years. Although PDFCreator makes setup and usage of these components easy for end-users, they are still not 100% free in the sense of being unrestricted. The PDFCreator download linked from this page on BetaNews is a version covered under AFPL (Aladdin Free Public License) which is NOT an Open Source license. If you want the true Open Source version of PDFCreator, you must go to the PDFCreator project page on SourceForge and download the GPL version which contains a slightly older GS engine.

dejavu reviewed v0.8.1 RC9 Beta on Sep 29, 2005

All my PDF files has the free mark of PDFCreator. Superb software! YES you can choose between AFPL or GPL (thanks for explanation above by Spiked). The "just front-end" that makes PDFCreator to work, in my opinion, very well is still the best free alternative to the excellent, but expensive, Adobe Acrobat!

Shrekmachine reviewed v0.8.1 RC9 Beta on Sep 29, 2005

Unbelievable cool

berserkchaos reviewed v0.8.1 RC8 on Sep 9, 2005

fast, small, FREEEEE...

Shrekmachine reviewed v0.8.1 RC8 on Sep 8, 2005

Awesome, installed it in fell in love in the same minute...

cyberguy reviewed v0.8.1 RC8 on Sep 8, 2005

Kudos for putting out a reasonable free PDF creator.

The the immature fool who thinks Betanews staff are 'tards all I can say is it takes an even bigger one to know one :P Sounds childish? It should - that is how the original comment sounded too.

Betanews staff does not post these - they are submitted by people like us.

googun reviewed v0.8.1 RC8 on Sep 8, 2005

To the guy who said BetaNews staff are ret***s: BetaNews is an important site with good people behind it. If you are familiar with its past troubles you will know that many BetaNews users are also very keen supporters of the site. Even if Betanews did slip up, we are all Human and we all make mistakes sometimes.
On to the software: This version of PDFCreator is working very well on my PC. PDF is a very useful way to distribute documents, but Adobe is charging far too much for the PDF-making part of the package. PDFCreator looks like a very cost-effective alternative.

guitardave78 reviewed v0.8.1 RC8 on Sep 8, 2005

Great software, have used it for ages. Hope that they have added a cancel button though!
As for this being late, people submit to betanews, not the other way round. So the person who submitted this was late, not betanews.

Kramy reviewed v0.8.1 RC8 on Sep 8, 2005

What's this? 0.8.1 has been out forever on sourceforge, and has a number of interface improvements.

Great software besides, but go google the latest version rather than a release candidate!

TheAngryPenguin reviewed v0.8.1 RC8 on Sep 8, 2005

RC8 was released on July 28, 2005. Not sure why it's appearing here now. Nonetheless, this is a highly recommended application. Little known fact: PDFCreator /also/ converts PDF files (or more accurately, anything printable) to jpg, tif, bmp, png and pcx image formats.

dejavu reviewed v0.8.1 RC8 on Sep 7, 2005

PDF creator is a excellent program. Maybe Paul talk about Ghostscript Deluxe!!!

Tokar reviewed v0.8.1 RC6 on Apr 27, 2005

EXCELLENT software.

It integrates as a printer in any program...its awesome.

Its like Microsoft Office Document Imaging for MS Office 2003, except it spits out a filetype that any computer with a PDF reader can read (where as the Document Imaging's TIFF/MDI files can ONLY be read by Microsoft Office Document Imaging for MS Office 2003...meaning the computer MUST have MS Office 2003 installed).

AND it supports color...

5/5

Wiser reviewed v0.8.1 RC6 on Apr 14, 2005

What are you talking about Paul? Do you even know what ghostscript is? http://www.ghostscript.com/ In case you didn't notice, all versions of ghostscript are FREE! Also, the only GUI that ghostscript has is a text-only console.

Either way, this is a very good program.

Paul Lush reviewed v0.8.1 RC6 on Apr 14, 2005

Hmm, ghostscript GUI... Ghostscript isnt free, its 20,000+ for commerical use.

abear27 reviewed v0.8.1 RC6 on Apr 14, 2005

In my experience - Complex Word 2003 documents I try to PDF with PDFCreator stop with an error and no PDF file is generated.

It has potential, but I've had to use a commercial solution to get my PDFs happenning.

betabetabeta reviewed v0.8.1 RC5 on Mar 7, 2005

Good one...far better than the crappy shareware pdf creators. Finally found a wonderful PDF creator...
Wishlist: I would appreciate JPG creation of all pages in a document in 1 go into a series of several JPG files.

thehunger reviewed v0.8.1 RC5 on Feb 26, 2005

OpenOffice' PDF creating capability is cool, but severely limited in that graphics images are downsized to a low resolution, unfit for printing.

OO.o 2.0 is supposed to remedy this, but until then it's PDF creation capability is OK but far from adequate.

As for this thing, I just hope they look at FinePrint PDF Creator. Its commercial but has a lot of cool features that might inspire...

Ziad270 reviewed v0.8.1 RC5 on Feb 26, 2005

Simply Amazing...even better each new version...
Drag and drop to make PDF (with differents Format source) is really nice...

Keep on that way ! GREAT Job !!

(And i havent test it on Terminal Server, or as Server PDF Printer...)

tigger4046 reviewed v0.8.1 RC5 on Feb 26, 2005

Looks promising. But i would like to point out that openoffice has had this feature built in for a while. At this point, a PDFCreator does not meet my needs but i like the idea. Keep up the great work. =)

LRN reviewed v0.8.1 RC5 on Feb 26, 2005

Well, OpenSource PDF Writer - it's thing i miss for a long time...But anyway you should try Adobe's Acrobat (just Acrobat, not Acrobat Reader). After all, it's one of leading pdf-apps.

daverage reviewed v0.8.1 RC5 on Feb 26, 2005

Been using this for ages now and not found anything that matches it for features and price ;) Very few bugs, but I hope there is a cancel button soon !!
Keeps getting better, nice one!!

TOF reviewed v0.8.0 on Sep 10, 2004

This is a great application.

I was using PrimoPDF before. When I tried PDF Creator, I noticed that all of the pdf files are about 3/4 the size of PrimoPDF. The automatic compression is great!

As an open source, I sure hope that they will develop the program so that I can create hyperlinks within the documents.

Wonderful!

Carlospr reviewed v0.8.0 on Sep 9, 2004

This is a great application and it's free! The PDF printer works fine but the first time I use it (after start my computer) it never shows the dialog with the options to save the file automatically. So, I have to start PDFCreator and then I can save it. After the first time, PDFCreator works as it should do.