PDFCreator 1.7.0 is available for download

PDFCreator 1.7.0 is now available for download. PDFCreator is now allow to produces PDF/A 2b output. This build also includes a number of small fixes and improvements.

PDF Architect now allows to move pages in the document by dragging and dropping them in the page preview, add lines and different shapes an a lot more. PDF Architect 1.1 is included in the PDFCreator offline setup and can be downloaded and installed during the regular setup. Existing users of PDF Architect will receive an update notification shortly.

Overview
PDFCreator is a free and simple to use tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. If you know how to print, then you know how to use this software.

PDF Creator is a virtual pdf printer that will allow you to print any file to a PDF document. In as quick as 1-2-3 you can make your own professional PDF document.

PDFCreator is open source software and released free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Key Features:
Here are key features of PDFCreator:
  • Create PDFs from any program that is able to print.
  • Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
  • New: Digitally sign your PDFs to ensure that you are the author and the file has not been modified.
  • New: Create PDF/A files for long term archives.
  • Send generated 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.
  • 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.
  • Supports Windows Vista and Windows 7

How to Downlaod PDFCreator 1.7.0
The links in this section correspond to files available for this download.

What's new in PDFCreator 1.7.0?
This release contains the following improvements and new features:

Improvements:
  • Upgraded Ghostscript to 9.07. The memory leak from 9.06 is fixed there.
  • PDF/A files now produce PDF/A-2b output.
  • PDF Architect was updated to version 1.1 which includes some major improvements and bug fixes.

Bug Fixes:
  • 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.

System Requirements
PDFCreator is designed to support: Windows 9x, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 8

Reference:
PDFCreator - What's new?

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