PDFCreator 1.2.3

Software developers name their creations to make then sound cool, or to indicate whatever functionality that piece of software can provide. In the sound cool category, we have applications like Firefox or Chrome. If you weren’t familiar with these applications, could you tell from the name that they are web browsers? From the indicate the functionality it can provide category, we have PDFCreator – which does just what it says, it creates PDFs.

This piece of software weighs in at approximately 17MB. Downloading it onto your computer, if you have a lousy internet connection, will take a while.This shouldn’t be a problem though if you have high-speed internet access. Once downloaded you can install and use this application for as long as you want without having to pay a dime. PDFCreator is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

What can you do with PDFCreator? The answer lies in the software’s name: you can create PDFs. TO be more precise, if you create a file with a Windows application that has the Print function, you can print that file as a PDF. That document you created using Microsoft’s Office productivity suite? You can easily turn it into a PDF. That document in Notepad? You can turn it into a PDF as well. As long as the application has a Print function, anything can be turned into a PDF.

Think of PDFCreator as a virtual PDF printer. A real-life printer uses real paper – data is sent to the printer, which then prints it onto paper. Well PDFCreator prints your stuff onto a PDF file. Data is sent to PDFCreator, which prints it onto a PDF file. It is as simple as that.

Speaking of things simplicity, using PDFCreator is an incredibly straightforward process. The software works right out of the box. There are some settings you can play with, but you don’t really have to play with them to get PDFCreator to work. Simple select the Print option from whatever Windows application you want, and print that document as a PDF file.

PDFCreator is a virtual PDF printer that will turn documents created with any Windows application into a PDF. Granted of course the application has a Print feature.

Pros

• Free
• Easy to use
• Encrypt PDFs to protect your data
• Works with Windows 7
• Extensive language support

Cons

• Offers to install the PDFCreator Browser Add On for Internet Explore and Firefox, and change your default search provider to Yahoo!

PDFCreator has been reviewed by George Norman on 24 Mar 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated PDFCreator 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent