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Anyone who wants to create PDFs: individual users, small/medium/large businesses, IT professionals, and educational institutions seeking a reliable and cost-effective tool for converting and managing documents in PDF format.

About PDFCreator

PDFCreator simplifies converting printable documents into high-quality PDFs and other formats like JPG, PNG, and TIF. Easily merge multiple files into one PDF and automate saving with the PDF printer feature. Customizable profiles allow quick access to frequently used settings. Whether for personal or business use, PDFCreator makes PDF conversion seamless and efficient.

Trusted by businesses worldwide, including banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, and healthcare providers, PDFCreator offers a free edition and three advanced business editions. PDFCreator Professional is ideal for standalone workstations, while PDFCreator Terminal Server is designed for Windows Servers with Remote Desktop Services.

New in PDFCreator 6.0.0: features include document previews, a Delete Token for page removal, SharePoint integration, and enhanced error feedback.

Pricing

Starting Price:
$0
Pricing Details:
PDFCreator provides a variety of editions to meet the needs of different users, ranging from a free version to several paid options with additional features. Here’s a summary of the available editions and their pricing:

PDFCreator Free
Features: Basic PDF creation capabilities suitable for individual users.

PDFCreator Professional
Designed for business use, this edition offers advanced features like COM-Interface, CS-Script, Group Policies, License-Server, and MSI Package, starting at $27.50 per workstation per year (volume discounts available).

PDFCreator Terminal Server
Ideal for terminal server environments, this edition supports an unlimited number of users per server. Priced at $456.00 per server per year, it includes all features of the Professional edition, optimized for terminal server use.

PDFCreator Server
Built for high-demand scenarios, this edition enables centralized PDF creation and management. It costs $1,375 per server per year and includes centralized settings, CS-Script, License-Server, MSI Package, and Multi-Threading features.
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Free Trial:
Free Trial available.

Integrations

Ratings/Reviews - 11 User Reviews

Overall 4.5 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 4.1 / 5
design 4.3 / 5
support 4.0 / 5

Company Information

pdfforge
Founded: 2009
Germany

Videos and Screen Captures

PDFCreator 6.0.0 interface

PDFCreator 6.0.0 interface

Product Details

Platforms Supported
Windows
Training
Documentation
Support
Online

PDFCreator Frequently Asked Questions

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PDFCreator Product Features

PDF

Convert to PDF
Digital Signature
Encryption
Merge / Append
Watermarking
Annotations
PDF Reader

PDF Editors

Customizable Branding
Electronic Signature
Merge / Append
Offline Access
Rotate Pages
Watermarking
Access Controls / Permissions
Annotations
Commenting / Notes
Compare Side-by-Side
Delete Pages
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Rearrange Pages
  • A PDFCreator User
    Manager
    Used the software for: Free Trial
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: Administrator
    Company Size: 1 - 25
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
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    "PDFCreator review"

    Posted 2024-10-03

    Pros: None.
    I found nothing useful in this product!
    I suggest you remove it from your site.
    It's a trap just a trap

    Cons: Trap !
    pretend to be free when it's absolutely not !

    Overall: You want to create an account but you're not allowed to connect with it once you try !
    You cannot remove your account from site avanquest.com !

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    Reply from PDFCreator
    Posted 2024-10-08
    Sorry to hear that you are not happy with the product experience. We invite you to get in touch at https://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/editions/contact so we can help you.
  • A PDFCreator User
    President of a social club and Editor for our retiree newsletter
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User, Administrator
    Company Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "PDF creator as a newsletter publishing aid"

    Posted 2023-03-27

    Pros: I like that I can convert multiple files into one file so several pages can all be printed with one command. I publish a small newsletter that originates as a word document. Saving it as a PDF before printing (after all the rewrites and corrections have been made) prevents any errors from being made with erroneous keystrokes when printing. I once had several hundred copies print with an error before I started making the final proof available as a PDF.

    Cons: It is a little inconvenient to go back to a word doc (or other working program) to make corrections. But that is the price I must pay in order to insure that the final copy stays unchanged while printing.

    Overall: Easy to use and works well for what it is designed to do. There are limitations, but any added abilities are not free.

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  • A PDFCreator User
    Senior Mechanical Engineer
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Company Size: 1 - 25
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Engineer User"

    Posted 2023-03-24

    Pros: Convenient, simple, excellent files.

    Cons: Won't let me print locked pdf files.

    Overall: Use it every day, most useful and convenient software I use.

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  • A PDFCreator User
    Specialist: Converged Communications
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "PDF Creator"

    Edited 2023-03-27

    Pros: Everything works great.
    I basically use it to store all my documents in PDF format especially documents that I don't want to be changed.

    Cons: Not really much to complain about, except maybe the pricing, but that is not really an issue.

    Overall: Excellent layout. Very user friendly and very easy to print/save all documents in PDF format, quickly.

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  • Tiago V.
    Designer
    Used the software for: Free Trial
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User, Deployment
    Company Size: 1 - 25
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Great tool"

    Posted 2023-02-04

    Pros: You must have it, all necessary PDF tools. There are shortcuts with the right mouse button, and many options to save the pdf file.

    Cons: No cons, I'm using for few hours and nothing wrong until now.

    Overall: No problems at all, i love the short cuts on the right mouse button, there are nice option to save the final files.

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  • Francisco M.
    Free Lance
    Used the software for: Free Trial
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 26 - 99
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "PDFCreator - absolutely useful. "

    Edited 2023-01-26

    Pros: I can ensure that my papers in: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, jpg are received as it was sent, is an automated acknowledgment of receipt.

    Cons: I remember, I could take a picture of a PDF document as a skill of PDFCreator to work on the picture. Though now I did not find this option in the app I don't know if was eliminated.

    Overall: Excellent skill for document management.
    Protects ours digital responses .
    Helps to save memory space and reduce the message flow reducing the docs size.

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  • A PDFCreator User
    Retired, and Community volunteer
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Monthly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "PDF Creator"

    Posted 2023-01-25

    Pros: This program helps me in my volunteer capacities to send the occasional .PDF rather than WORD, because most folk can open a .PDF, but sometimes a WORD document will be distorted/corrupted when they try to print.

    Cons: I don't need Architect, thanks... it is annoying when the software tries to entice me to use Architect. I find Architect very slow to open to review a newly .PDF'd document.

    Overall: Really good, and suits my purposes. I am a volunteer for several not-for-profit community-based organisations, and need to send a monthly report, meeting agendas, minutes etc, Most of the members of these groups can open a .PDF, but sometimes for them a WORD document will be distorted or corrupted when they try to print. So, it's better that I send the relevant document as PDF's.

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  • Anant R.
    Director
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "PDFCreator is a boon to all students, researchers and all"

    Posted 2023-01-22

    Pros: It is free, simple, easy to use and good quality output is obtained. It is helping a lot to all types of people who need pdf documents. Its a great app.

    Cons: I did not find any deficiency in this App, it is serving the purpose very well.

    Overall: Excellent, fantastic App daily being used by all students, teachers, professionals, and others in their daily routine work. I give 100% efficiency marks to this App.

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  • A PDFCreator User
    Senior Database Administrator
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 5,000 - 9,999
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "PDFCreator"

    Posted 2023-01-21

    Pros: Been using it for a decade at work and home to keep copies of online documentation, receipts, anything I need a copy of and want to keep. It even names the file for you. You just point to the location.

    Cons: PDF Architect keeps popping up and I spend more time closing it than I do using PDFCreator. I am ready to stop using it and move to the built in one in Windows 11.

    Overall: It's been a great product for many years. I wish it would stop pushing PDF Architect so hard that it has become so annoying to use.

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  • Daniel E.
    Farmer
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator
    Company Size: 1 - 25
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Good Product"

    Posted 2023-01-21

    Pros: Used for years. It works. Converts all my documents to PDF files in seconds. Like that I can name the file and file it where I choose.

    Cons: Wish I could set up a default location where to file converted file when I forget to change the location from the last use. I think it went one place and then I realize I forgot to update the location where it was supposed to go. Then I am trying to find the file to move it to the proper location. Maybe if it asked when I clicked save, "Is the file location line correct?".

    Overall: It's simple and easy to use. I've tried others: too many steps, too many coding issues. Thank you for making a great product.

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  • A PDFCreator User
    Engineering Manager
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 1 - 25
    Design
    Ease
    Features
    Pricing
    Support
    Probability You Would Recommend?
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    "PDFCreator"

    Posted 2023-01-19

    Pros: It works and the default PDF filename is intelligent, based upon the filename of the file being PDFed.

    Cons: On installation/update it changes the PDF viewer to its own one which I don't like.

    Overall: How can I? It just does what it says on the tin! And if you want a hundred characters I will oblige!

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