pdfforge - (Open Source)
PDFCreator is a simple tool for creating and managing PDF files and not only.
PDFCreator is easy to use, it installs as a as a virtual printer that simply choose to print a document to generate the PDF file and allows the creation of files in most common formats: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS. It works with any Windows application that allows printing. PDFCreator allows you to digitally sign your PDF to prove that you're the author and ensure that the document has not been modified. Finally, it is possible to encrypt files to prevent them from viewing or printing.
PDFCreator offers many useful options to protect official documents in the working example. It can also be useful for compressing images of different formats which can add some fonts or adjust the resolution. It is used to prohibit printing a document and send a file containing confidential documents is possible without the person can neither change nor print. This is software also keeps on your pc encrypted sensitive data, that they will not be accessible even if the PC was hacked. It is possible more by automatically recording protect creating PDF documents . This is a simple to use, fast delivery and free software that is so fluid that it will weigh nothing on your system performance.
# Improvements:
* Support for large print jobs (> 4GB)
* Very basic support for managed group policies. PDFCreator settings can now be set through group policies. Note: The settings user interface will show the policy values and will not deactivate the respective UI elements. If the users saves the settings, the policy values will be saved to the user's registry.
* Improved PDFCreator Windows explorer integration
* Improved setup: There could have been problems replacing the pdfcmon.dll during the setup
* Includes Images2PDF 0.9.1
* Updated PDFArchitect languages
# Bug Fixes:
* There was a problem where some users could print to PDFCreator at all with the version 1.3.0 to 1.4.0. We finally have found the reason and have fixed this
* Fixed a problem with special chars in metadata using auto-save mode
* Fixed some other minor bugs
* Set Minimum Windows Version to WinXP SP2