Freeware tools for PDF creation in windows
Adobe known for its impressive products, introduced PDF in 1993 which is popularly known as Portable Document Format has now become the widely used file format across the globe. Nowadays you can find most of the printable documents are in PDF file format. Everybody wants to convert their documents into PDF for sharing the contents safely either unedited or password protected. To convert a document into PDF most of the desktop tools available in the industry are not free. At the same time we can find lot of free services online but it is limited to file size. So today we are going to look at some of the free and powerful desktop tools for creating PDF in windows.
PDFCreator is an open-source application written using visual basic. This tools is very handy and it offers most of the features offered by other commercial tools. User can protect the document by setting passwords and disable printing options and can also be encrypted. Also has got options to merge multiple PDFs. This tool is free for commercial use too.
PDF4free is a freeware application that sits in the computer as a virtual printer. The user can convert any document into PDF by using the File -> Print menu and choosing the Create PDF as printer. It is a very simple tool and uses Ghost script and Red Mon to create PDF.
doPDF is also a virtual printer kind of application like PDF4free and works in the similar way. It is free for both personal and commercial use. This tool is available for 64bit operating systems. This tool doesnt use Ghost script for PDF creation and doesnt depend on any 3rd part drivers.
PrimoPDF comes in two flavours, one as free version and the other one as Professional. This tool is also handy and come with features like security, document merging after conversion and can convert documents into PDF from more than 300 file types.
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