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What is PDFCreator?

PDFCreator is a Windows-focused solution for automating how documents are generated and delivered in business workflows. It captures print jobs from almost any application and converts them into PDF, JPG, PNG, or TIF through a virtual printer, so teams can keep their existing tools and processes.

Organizations use PDFCreator to reduce manual document handling by applying profile-based rules for formatting, naming, securing, and routing output. This supports scenarios such as scheduled report generation, high-volume batch conversion, and compliance-ready distribution of documents in regulated sectors.

Its feature set includes strong encryption, password-based access control, digital signing, watermarking, MSI installation, Group Policy integration, and centralized management of profiles for multiple users. PDFCreator works with Office applications like Word and Excel, web browsers, ERP platforms, and any other Windows software capable of printing.

Licensing options range from a free version for personal, non-commercial use to three paid editions that address the needs of business deployments, terminal server environments, and larger enterprises.

Pricing

Price Starts At:
$0
Price Overview:
PDFCreator is available in four editions to match your deployment needs.

PDFCreator Free covers core PDF creation for individual, non-commercial use only.

PDFCreator Professional is built for business workstations, adding COM interface, scripting, Group Policy support, License Server, and MSI deployment. Starting at EUR 29.75 per workstation per year, with volume discounts available.

PDFCreator Terminal Server supports unlimited users per server in Remote Desktop environments, with all Professional features optimized for centralized use. EUR 499.80 per server per year.

PDFCreator Server is designed for high-volume, centralized PDF creation and management, with multi-threading, centralized settings, CS-Script, and License Server support, and MSI package. EUR 1606.50 per server per year.
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Free Trial Offered?:
Yes

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Company Facts

Company Name:
pdfforge
Date Founded:
2009
Company Location:
Germany
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Product Details

Deployment
Windows
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Support
24 Hour Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
Bulgarian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Portuguese
Spanish
Ukrainian

PDFCreator Categories and Features

PDF Editors

Access Controls / Permissions
Annotations
Commenting / Notes
Compare Side-by-Side
Customizable Branding
Delete Pages
Electronic Signature
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Merge / Append
Offline Access
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Rearrange Pages
Rotate Pages
Watermarking

PDF Software

Annotations
Convert to PDF
Digital Signature
Encryption
Merge / Append
PDF Reader
Watermarking
  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Manager
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    PDFCreator review

    Date: Oct 03 2024
    Summary

    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 !

    Positive

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

    Negative

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

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    Official PDFCreator Response
    Date: Oct 08 2024
    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.
  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: President of a social club and Editor for our retiree newsletter
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    PDF creator as a newsletter publishing aid

    Date: Mar 27 2023
    Summary

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

    Positive

    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.

    Negative

    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.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Retired, and Community volunteer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Monthly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    PDF Creator

    Date: Jan 25 2023
    Summary

    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.

    Positive

    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.

    Negative

    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.

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  • Reviewer Name: Anant R.
    Position: Director
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    PDFCreator is a boon to all students, researchers and all

    Date: Jan 22 2023
    Summary

    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.

    Positive

    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.

    Negative

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

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Senior Database Administrator
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 5,000 - 9,999
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    PDFCreator

    Date: Jan 21 2023
    Summary

    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.

    Positive

    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.

    Negative

    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.

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  • Reviewer Name: Francisco M.
    Position: Free Lance
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 26 - 99
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    PDFCreator - absolutely useful.

    Updated: Jan 26 2023
    Summary

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

    Positive

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

    Negative

    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.

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  • Reviewer Name: Daniel E.
    Position: Farmer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Good Product

    Date: Jan 21 2023
    Summary

    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.

    Positive

    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.

    Negative

    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?".

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Specialist: Converged Communications
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1,000 - 4,999
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    PDF Creator

    Updated: Mar 27 2023
    Summary

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

    Positive

    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.

    Negative

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

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  • Reviewer Name: Tiago V.
    Position: Designer
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Great tool

    Date: Feb 04 2023
    Summary

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

    Positive

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

    Negative

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

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Engineering Manager
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    PDFCreator

    Date: Jan 19 2023
    Summary

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

    Positive

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

    Negative

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

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: Senior Mechanical Engineer
    Has used product for: 2+ Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 1 - 25
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    Engineer User

    Date: Mar 24 2023
    Summary

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

    Positive

    Convenient, simple, excellent files.

    Negative

    Won't let me print locked pdf files.

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