PDFCreator 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

PDFCreator

4.6

(418)

Pricing

Starting at $27.50 per year

About PDFCreator

PDFCreator is a powerful and easy-to-use software that enables users to create PDF files from any program. Whether you are an office worker, small business owner, or freelancer, PDFCreator caters to professionals across various industries who need to work with PDF documents. With a range of features designed to streamline workflows and enhance productivity, PDFCreator simplifies the process of creating, editing, and managing PDFs.

PDFCreator offers comprehensive support to ensure a smooth experience. From onboarding guides to responsive customer service, their team is ready to assist you with any questions or issues. Additionally, the software includes detailed tutorials and online resources to help you maximize its features.

PDFCreator is an all-in-one solution for managing and automating your document workflows. Whether you're a business looking to optimize your operations or an individual needing a reliable PDF editor, PDFCreator offers the flexibility and functionality to meet your needs.

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PDFCreator Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $27.50 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

$0.00

Plan includes:

Updates
User Interface
COM-Iinterface
Free Licensing

Professional

$27.50

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Updates
No Ads
User Interface
Windows Enterprise Multi-Session
Priority Support
MSI Package
COM-Interface
CS-Script
License-Server
Offline Activation

Terminal Server

$456.00

per year

Plan includes:

Updates
No Ads
User Interface
Windows Enterprise Multi-Session
Priority Support
MSI Package
Windows Service
COM-Interface
CS-Script
License-Server

Server

$1,375.00

per year

Plan includes:

Updates
No Ads
Priority Support
MSI Package
Windows Service
CS-Script
License-Server
Offline Activation
Multi Threading

PDFCreator Features

Popular features found in PDF
Annotations
Convert to PDF
Digital Signature
Encryption
Merge/Append Files
Watermarking
More features of PDFCreator
Batch Processing
Document Management
Electronic Signature
PDF Conversion

PDFCreator Integrations

Microsoft Outlook

Thunderbird

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

OneDrive

PDFCreator User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

64%

30%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.4

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Open source PDF creation

PDFCreator is ideal for whenever you want to convert a regular document into a PDF. Used it in the past quite a lot, as PDF creation was not part of Office. However, since Microsoft introduced the ability to convert Office documents into PDFs I basically switched back to what it offers. Whenever I need something more advanced I basically use one of the various online PDF manipulation sites (i.e. for merging PDFs), but I guess PDFCreator still has its use for those that need to convert to PDF more often rather than just ocassionally.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Pros:

PDFCreator was the first open source PDF creator launched, and that gained a lot of popularity over the years. It's the type of program that you install and use whenever you want to convert a regular document into a PDF. Later versions introduced conversion to other formats as well (JPG, PNG, TIF, ...) so it's more than a PDF creator now. It also allows PDF file manipulation as you can combine several documents into a single PDF file and it has support for multiple conversion profiles.

Cons:

Still requires an additional download, Ghostscript. Not the most intuitive interface. A bit on the freemium side since they introduced the PDFCreator Plus paid version.

Ricardo M.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

It's very good, easy to use and with additional powerful features; No complications about the format

"PDF Creator" not only allows to create PDF files but also to protect them, and limit the file only to the visualization; This is fantastic if you send documents that can be plagiarized, so with PDF Creator you can be calmer when sending a PDF.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Pros:

The virtual printer PDFCREATOR integrates very well with the other software, allows to improve the configuration of the output file. It works for more than 20 different extensions. The action of clicking the file and dragging, and automatically edit it is very good. In the profile system it can be copied in Flash Memory to be used in another PC. You can select the security level of the encryption (low, medium and high) according to the need and edit the permissions on the document (printing, copying, editing). Convincing two PDF files is extremely easy, just select right click and open them with PDFCREATOR, then join lessons, and that's it!

Cons:

If you want to create a single PDF document with several non-PDF files, it does not work as well, since you must first open all the files in your default programs, this can take a long time and is complicated. Junfo is installed with PDF Architect, this is not optional.

Mariel Virginia V.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

It is the format that has revolutionized the way of sharing documents.

Previously 5

It is a software that allows us to print PDF files or save a printable file as PDF, which means that you can convert almost any file to portable document format (PDF), accessible everywhere at any time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Previously 5

Functionality

Pros:

It is quite easy and fast, offer several options to protect your documents, such as the possibility of adding watermark, can significantly compress the size of the document, PDF files can be viewed on any device, regardless of hardware, software or operating system used to create and visualize them.

Cons:

For me its only disadvantage is that PDF is not an editable format document, even when it reproduces exactly what we can see in a Microsoft Word document, for example. It is practically impossible to edit a PDF simply because it is an image of a document.

Rafael B.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Indispensable to send files that require a certain degree of protection of information.

The biggest gain I've had and still have with this program is the level of security and the relatively little space I need to work with files in this format, both for those I send and for those I receive or download from the Internet, which , combined with the PDF converter, allow me to generate text files from the original pdf format.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Indispensable to send files that require a certain degree of protection of information. Creating documents with this format (PDF) is extremely easy and fast. In addition, in many cases the security of the information you want to send is vital and this format offers several options and levels of security such as the ability to add a watermark, encrypt data and use passwords and, on the other hand, and not least is the fact that it has a great capacity to compress the size of files.

Cons:

In many cases it can be very difficult to work with information received in a PDF document, since this format, in principle, is not made so that the editable document, in other words, it is practically impossible to edit a PDF for the simple fact that it is it's about an image of a document. Fortunately, there are already tools such as the Aiseesoft PDF Converter Ultimate that allows converting PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other editable text formats.

Ana S.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

create in second and free of charge any type of PDF document

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Free tool, easy to install and use, works as an assistant in the form of a virtual printer, so it can be used in conjunction with any program capable of sending files to the print queue, it can significantly compress the size of the Word, Excel document. Power Point by transforming it to the pdf format, occupying less space on the disk and are easier to send by email. As a teacher I constantly use it to compress documents and that these occupy less space on my pc. It helps to avoid plagiarism also limiting the file only to the visualization

Cons:

I consider that its only disadvantage is that it should have an option that allows editing the documents that are in this format since it is practically impossible to edit a PDF, for the simple fact that it is an image of a document

Wulliams C.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2018

Excellent software for creating and editing PDF documents

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This software came into my work environment by chance, and it's the best chance I've ever had. PDF Creator is a very useful software to create and edit documents in PDF format. As it generates we use this format a lot in our work environment for the creation of documents in PDF format related to theatrical scripts, elaboration of speeches of presentation of works or theatrical spaces and of microtheatre. And not only does it stay with the creation of PDF documents, but you can also modify them, this feature is one of the most prominent and the one that makes us use more this software, since the material we create in PDF is reviewed by the entire team, and in this review always appear highlights that further nourish the content of the text, and this is where we modify according to these new ideas. And if that wasn't enough we can add passwords to protect each of our PDF documents. Undoubtedly this software is quite complete and very useful not only for our field of work but for any other field of work that requires the use of these features.

Cons:

For the features we use, I don't think it's convenient to enunciate some negative element that distorts the image and functions of this incredible software. Perhaps you could mention that its paid version is a little expensive for our management, however it is a trifle in comparison to all the positive features offered by this software.

syed muneef a.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2020

PDFCreator for documents

I used this software during my research. As I have written my thesis subject wise therefore this software provided me with the best option to compile my research and get it ready for the printing. I also convert many of my documents to PDF format using PDFCreator for easy printing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PDFCreator can convert many types of documents into PDF format without the availability of the internet and free of cost. It allows you to compile many documents into one format. PDFCreator requires less space on your hard drive and can be easily downloaded from many websites. it is a very light software that gives the printing facility and works on the low-end PCs.

Cons:

PDFCreator is a bit complex for low illiterates of the computer. it has some installations problem in old operating systems such as Windows 7. Some issues can also occur during printing. it also requires troubleshooting to solve these issues after using it for some time.

Angel Luis G.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

pdf creator the best way to convert my music files to pdf.

This program has made me day to day in my job easier. In the university it helps me to convert the homeworks done in pdf and in the work it is very useful because I can have all my scores and musical exercises on my cell phone or tablet always at hand.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- It allows me to create pdf files directly from the interface of the application. - The best is the virtual printer, it is universal and converts any type of document to PDF. - I can convert my microsoft office files to the pdf standard in a simple and professional way. - It has the ability to combine multiple file formats and convert them into a single pdf document. - Once converted to pdf I can make annotations and add comments. - You can place a password to open the files once they are converted.

Cons:

do not see any kind of negative aspect, I dont have nothing to complain about. This program is simply spectacular and meets all my expectations

Zoyree Estefania L.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Excellent for working with it and autocad

This is a must have for any engineering company, it's compatibility with autocad is unbelievable, the level of precission with which you can export your files beats the normal pdf export that comes with autocad by a mile, it is excellent.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PDF creator is such an useful software for autocad users, it allows for exporting your floor plans at ease and with a lot of precission, even the layers get exported with your files, which comes extremely handy when sending the preliminar designs to your clients (instead of submitting the finished cad product)

Cons:

Something that bugs me a lot about this software is how it is constantly bombarding you with ads when you are using it, this makes working with it a bad experience at times.

Juan Ignacio C.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

PDF Creator: the best and most useful tool for creating PDF files

My experience in general has been very good. I think that this program has given me what I was looking for in PDF lecotres. It's like having a digital printer installed on my machine thanks to which my PDF documents are more secure.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

PDF Creator offers very useful functions with regard to security. With this program I can restrict access to my files in PDF format in order to save them. It is compatible with other versions of PDF readers. I can add text watermarks as well as image. Of equal it seems very good to be able to make fast editions and to merge several files in a single PDF file

Cons:

It must improve the service of technical service. On some occasions they have lasted up to three days to answer me.

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