PDFCreator
January 21st, 2008 | Published in Productivity, Useful | 2 Comments
Well, I don’t normally bother blogging about utilities and tools, but PDFCreator (which I saw on LifeHacker) caught my eye. Have you ever needed to squish a bunch of PDFs onto your thumb drive and didn’t have room? Or perhaps email them somewhere, but they were too large? According to this post on LifeHacker, PDFCreator can shrink a giant PDF to a much smaller one just by using the “print to PDF” feature to print your PDF to another PDF. Nice! In addition, PDFCreator does encryption, autosave filing based on tags, and PDF merging. You can also save files as PNG, JPG, and more. Now, if only it was portable…
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January 21st, 2008 at 10:38 pm (#)
I’ve been using PDF Creator at work and at home for a long time. See my review of it from about this time last year.
http://freewarewiki.com/PdfCreator
The IT department at work hasn’t caught on to this one yet, but I’ve been actively spreading the word to my co-workers who have admin access to install it.
Our IT has us using a clunky Postscript printer driver that creates a postscript file that you have to drop into a distiller folder to get the PDF. I never used it because I knew there were better ways to do that job.
PDFCreator can’t become a portable app because it has to be installed as a virtual printer. That’s the only way it’s useful. Just keep a copy of the installer file on your thumb drive. That’s as good as you can do in this situation.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:40 am (#)
Hey Now Sara,
PDF Creator is a great tool I use.
Thx,
Catto