How to create PDF documents from any Windows Application

[Ebadaah]

hie everyone,

I am looking for a program that will help me to create PDF documents from any of the Windows applications. Can anybody help me providing or suggesting the program for the same ? Any ideas......

[JonathanD]

PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as their printer, permitting almost any application to print to PDF.

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There are some different packages of a PDFCreator version.

PDFCreator 0.9.8 - This version should be the right one for the majority of people. If you don't know the difference to the other packages, use this one.

PDFCreator 0.9.8 Source Code - As PDFCreator is Open Source, there is also a source release. You always find the most recent source, maybe with additions and fixed since the last release, in the subversion repository.

Key Features of PDFCreator include -

• You can create PDFs from any program that has the ability to print. All you need to do is, invoke the program, select the Print functionality and choose CreatePDF as the printer.
  
• From a security point of view, PDFCreator lets you encrypt PDFs and prevent them from being opened, printed.
  
• PDFCreator allows you to send generated PDF files via eMail.
  
• Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS.
  
• AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username, Computername, Date, Time etc.
  
• If you have multiple files and wish to create a single PDF out of them, PDFCreator gives you the ability to merge multiple files into one PDF.
  
• Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed.
  
• Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems.
  
• PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.

[Macarenas]

doPDF is free PDF converter, extremely simple to use. If you don't have a patience with 3rd party applications, just relax bcoz you’ll have a smooth time with this software.

First, download this app. Once you've installed the application just open up a document in Microsoft Word, NotePad, WordPad or pretty much any other text editing software. Let's say I'm going to use Microsoft Word.

Next, you have to go to File >> Print >> doPDF.

Finally, you just have to click OK and a window will pop-up asking you where you'd like to save your new PDF document, once you've chosen your preferred location, then click OK once again.

that's it....done !!!

[manish07]

Nice tips here. Thanks for sharing with us.