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:
- Adding default profiles to provide some profiles with reasonable settings
- Tested for Windows 8 compatibility
- Updated Ghostscript to 9.06
- The completely new PDF Architect is now included in the setup
# Bug Fixes:
- Updated pdfcmon.dll to cover some additional cases with multiple sessions on Windows Server and Terminal Server
- Fixed some minor bugs
# Known issues:
- No hyperlinks possible (Hyperlinks for MS Word are possible with the combination of PDF-T-Maker and PDFCreator.)
- There are problems if non-ANSI characters exist in the title. This causes Ghostscript to not create a file at all. Avoid such characters as a workaround.