[Tools] PDFCreator

Yesterday, I found a cool new tool you might find useful. PDFCreator is an Open Source (GPL) tool to easily create PDF files. I have wished for such a free tool for quite some time, now. While I do not normally need the full power of Adobe Acrobat, it is nice to be able to easily create PDF files while browsing or working in my normal applications. PDFCreator installs to work like a printer, so it is very easy to print up a PDF from whatever document you are in at the moment. You can even print PDFs from your web browser. Software developers may find it handy to output syntax-highlighted code directly from VisualStudio.NET (or whatever favorite editors you use) to a PDF file. You can also combine multiple documents into one PDF.

You can download PDFCreator from the PDFCreator Source Forge Site.

IMNSHO, this project is a great contribution to free software. I sent out a big "Thank you!" to Philip Chinery and Frank Heindörfer, the registered project admins on the SourceForge site, and their helpers!

The help file says this:

What's is PDFCreator?

PDFCreator is an open source application that can create PDF's from just about any program that prints using windows printers. With PDFCreator you can create PDF's, Postscript and Encapsulated Postscript files, create images from your documents, combine documents and much more.
Features
  • Create PDF's from just about any program that prints using Windows printers.
  • Create documents in the following formats: Portable Document Format (PDF), Postscript (PS), Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, and TIFF.
  • Combine multiple documents into one PDF.
  • Password protect and apply up to 128 bit encryption to your PDF documents.
  • Automatically save PDF documents with current settings without being prompted for information And much more!

PDFCreator is released under the term of th GPL (GNU General Public License).

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