PDFCreator

Our PDF converter thinks ahead for you Its many automated features guide you towards quick results that correspond to your demands and adjust to your workflow You choose the way forward, PDFCreator does the rest

We have thought of it all Depending on your IT infrastructure and require-ments, you have several product options to choose from Find the right solution for you and see how PDFCreator quickly turns into a valuable tool you no longer want to miss

If you need help choosing the right edition, you can compare them here

PDFCreator lets you convert any printable document to PDF Either within the application or by printing directly from the original document At the same time you can convert PDF files to image formats, like PDF to JPG, PDF to PNG and PDF to TIFF

Our PDF converter supports the use of tokens They can be used as placeholders for certain values, like today’s date, your username and many more If you print many similar documents, tokens can be a great tool to improve and speed up your workflow

If you need to sign a document and send it across the globe, it takes a lot of time You can use digital signatures to speed up this process: Sign the document digitally with PDFCreator This verifies you as author and you won’t have to print and scan the document

We want to make PDFCreator as accessible as possible for everyone around the world Thanks to our large community of translators it is therefore available in many different languages In case your native language is not available yet, check out translate pdfforge org to see how you can help translating

Auto-save allows you to have a fully automated PDF printer It lets you skip all interaction with the application and saves the files with your predefined file name at your preferred location Additionally, you can automate your workflow even more with the help of  user tokens

PDFCreator is able to create PDF/A files By applying strict standards on what can and must be included in the PDF The PDF/A standard ensures that your documents can be archived for years or decades and will be readable when you need them

If you have multiple documents that you would like to combine, PDFCreator offers the possibility to merge them into a single PDF file For this, the order of the documents can easily be rearranged

PDFCreator allows to secure your documents against unauthorized access or modifications You can restrict access to your PDFs, require a password to open the document or restrict printing and modifying your document Adding a digital signature adds to the security by verifying you as the author

Actions allow you to go even further You can add cover pages to your document, upload your files via FTP, send an e-Mail or even call your own custom script to further process the files

The CS-Script action allows you to implement a custom script in C

to process the print job

You have the possibility to work with the entire print job data (you are accessing the actual job object) right before and immediately after the conversion All with the  full functionality available in C

PDFCreator is and will remain freeware And even more: It is open source You may download the code, modify it and  create your own application from it, as long as you grant your users the same rights you have received If you want to dig into this, check out our license page