A Creative Communications Agency

Recently one of our clients called us looking for a recommendation for the best place to buy software - specifically Adobe Acrobat Professional (~$400 per copy). After discussing several options, I inquired what exactly they needed to do with Acrobat. Turns out the only function they required was the ability to print to PDF, or create a PDF rather than print on paper. Most of our designers have a real need for a full version of Acrobat, but our client service and support personnel could also benefit from being able to print PDF's - just not at $400 per workstation. Well here is an open source tool called PDFCreator that gives the functionality most users need. 

Key Features:

• Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
• Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
• 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
• And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.

Link: PDFCreator