By Claudine Hodges


Version 0.9.6 signing of PDFs files are possible. 0.9.7 generates smaller PDFS/A documents and supports the beta version of Windows 7. The supplied PDFsforge library can now directly create PDFS files from images and create PDFSs in booklet format (PDF creator software download). Printer Profiles and several different printers are supported version 0.9.9. Thus be in addition to a PDFS printer, a PDFS / A printer and / or a TIFF printer set up. Individual levels of compression for embedded color and grayscale images to achieve the best balance between quality and file size can defined version 1.0.0.

PDFCreator has many setting options that allow you to change the size of document created or Adobe Acrobat version used for compatibility. Sample file generated by PDFCreator version 0.8 (source): generated file. PDFCreator does not have as many features as Adobe Acrobat through the AdobePDF or Distiller printer depending on the version, which is the standard for creating PDFsfiles. PDFCreator can: Create PDFsfiles from any program with a printing function, including PDFS/A-1 formats (1b) and PDFS / X (X-3: 2002 X-3: 2003 and X-4). Send generated files via email, Merge multiple files into aPDFS (older versions only) and EncryptPDF and protect include the opening and printing.

By the options available from the Print Monitor, PDFCreator can prevent printing of document, to prohibit reproduction of text and images or modification. It is possible to choose two types of password. One is required to open the document, the other being necessary to change the permissions or password.

PDFCreator is a free application for creating PDFsfiles (and images as JPG, PNG, etc.) from any application. Licensed the program is Free Software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). To be distinguished from the paid programs PDFCreator are similar name PDFCreator and Jaws PDFCreator and freeware programs PDFS24 Creator and PDFCreator Pilot.

PDFS (portable document format) is a format for storing digital documents independent of software or hardware platforms. This format is composite (vector image, bitmap and text) type. It was initially developed by Adobe Systems, officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008 and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1.

Other applications are even able to edit them, without using the typical application for creating and editing Adobe PDFS documents. The PDFfile format has changed several times, you with new versions of Acrobat that has been launching Adobe. Regardless of how you create the PDFfile, they all share the same internal structure composed of four parts.

It is one of most widespread Internet for document exchange formats. Therefore it is widely used by businesses, governments and educational institutions. It is an open specification for which were generated free software tools that let you create, view or edit documents in PDFS format. Examples LibreOffice.org and office automation suite OpenOffice.org and the typesetting system LaTeX.

From version 0.9.5 it is possible to PDFSdocuments in formats PDFS/A (1b) and PDFS/X (X-3: 2002, X-3: 2003 and X-4) to create. Therefore PDFSdocuments for long term archiving or for prepress can be generated. Also the sign PDFsfiles is possible. The necessary parameters to be set via the preferences dialog. Creating PDFS/A and PDFS/X documents is further improved. In addition, the graphics formats JPEG and BMP can now be directly converted into PDFS documents without having to print them first.




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