PDFCreator is a free PDF converter tool that lets you create PDF files (Portable Document Format) from any Windows program.
If you can print your document, you can convert it to PDF with PDFCreator. And not only PDF, but you can also convert the document to other popular formats, like PNG, JPEG, and TIFF.
Creating PDF files with PDFCreator is simple. It operates like a virtual printer, turning printable documents into PDF files. Print your document to the PDFCreator printer to start the conversion.
PDFCreator converts generic printer commands from any program into PDF format and saves them as PDF files. Use it just like a printer in Word, StarCalc, or any other Windows application.
The software converts every printable document to PDF and many other formats.
- Transform your files into PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF, and more …
- Merge multiple documents into one file
- Profiles make ceaselessly used settings available with one click
- Use automatic saving to have a completely automated PDF printer
The Professional Edition includes features that help you control and secure your output, ensuring you achieve the desired results.
- Compress and resize images to reduce the file size
- Encrypt your PDFs with AES and protect them with a password
- Prevent unauthorized access to your PDFs by changing the security settings
- Use the COM interface to control the program from your application
PDFCreator Features:
- Create PDFs from any software that is ready to print
- Send generated files by way of email
- Digitally sign your PDFs to ensure that you are the author and the file has not been modified.
- Automatically save files to folders and filenames based on tags such as username, computer name, date, and time.
- Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed, etc
- Create PDF/A files for long-term archives
- Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
- Merge multiple files into one PDF
- Easy Install: Specify what you want, and everything is installed.
- Terminal Server: The software additionally runs on Terminal Servers without issues
- PDFCreator is free, even for business use! It is Open Source and launched under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.
Plus Edition does not include advertisements during setup. This results in a faster installation and a smaller download size.
What’s New in PDFCreator 6.2.2 (2026-03-10):
- Fixed a setup crash that occurred when displaying release notes for all 6.2 versions. Users should update PDFCreator 6.2.0 and 6.2.1 to 6.2.2 because older setups crash when showing the 6.2.2 release notes.
- Note: Apart from the bug fixes below, 6.2.2 is functionally identical to 6.2.0 and 6.2.1.
- Resolved an issue where files contained broken characters and unwanted empty pages when their preview had not finished loading.
- Custom: Fixed an issue that prevented conversions from the Windows context menu.
- Custom: Updated the Images2PDF parameter for the installer.
- Professional, Terminal Server, and Custom fixed the priority support on the last setup page.
- COM Interface: Corrected an issue where files were always merged during conversion to an existing document. The new default is to overwrite existing files, but this setting can be changed again in the settings.
- Reviewed and updated the COM interface examples and documentation in the user guide.
Official Homepage – https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7 SP1, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.
Size: 102 MB
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