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PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer. It was first released in Germany in 2004.

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Software.name
PDFCreator
Software.logo
PDFCreator logo.svg
Software.logo size
200px
Software.caption
PDFCreator screenshot
Software.developer
pdfforge GmbH
Software.programming language
C#
Software.operating_system
Microsoft Windows
Software.language
Multilingual
Software.genre
PDF printer/creator
Software.license
Mixed proprietary and open-source: GNU AGPL Ghostscript: GNU GPL pdfcmon.dll: pdfforge Freeware License iTextSharp.dll: GNU AGPL

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Source code

This is the source code of the well-known PDFCreator from pdfforge. PDFCreator works like a printer which allows to convert to PDFs from any printable application. In this repository, we provide access to the source code of the application. To get PDFCreator running on your system, you need to set up the appropriate printer driver. To do this, please download the PDFCreator Free setup from our website and install it with the "/silent" parameter. Note: We recommend disabling the standby mode in PDFCreator during development. This is because print jobs may not be processed by your freshly build PDFCreator, but by the installed version, waking up from stand-by. You can find all information on the applicable licenses in the license section of the user guide.

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software version identifier
5.3.3
source code repository URL
github.com/pdfforge/PDFCreator
inception
2004-00-00
official forum URL
forums.pdfforge.org
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  • Adware toolbar controversy
  • See also
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PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer. It was first released in Germany in 2004.

In addition to PDFCreator Free, there are three business editions with additional features: PDFCreator Professional, PDFCreator Server and PDFCreator Terminal Server.

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