Last Friday, after eight years of development, version 1.0.0 of PDFCreator was finally released. This program is capable of creating PDF files from any Windows application. PDFCreator installs like a printer driver, with the difference that the output does not go to the printer, but to a PDF file. Version 1.0.0 uses, among other things, a newer version of GPL-Ghostscript and contains several bug fixes. The full changelog for this release is below.
Improvements:
- Uses GPL Ghostscript 8.71 now.
- Added the feature to set the color-grey compression factor manually to get the best realtion between file size and quality of pdf files
- Improved print after saving (color printing, set maximum resolution)
- Improved the signing feature (set signature on page is freely definable)
- PDFCreator can handle signing and encryption in one step
- Improved the setup: 64bit printer driver installable on a 32bit system
- Added a better dialog for the certificate password
- Added the font dialog to the options dialog again
- Improved the PDFCreator class (check for an existing printer in cPrintPrinterTestpage, check for an existing file in cPrintfile)
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a crashing options dialog
- Fixed the “481 – invalid picture” bug
- Fixed a bug reading the options on Win9xMe systems
- Fixed a bug if the user uses Thai calendar format
- Fixed a bug using different Ghostscript versions
- Fixed some minor bugs.
Known issues:
- No hyperlinks possible (Hyperlinks for MS Word are possible with the combination of PDF-T-Maker and PDFCreator.)
Version number | 1.0.0 |
Release status | Final |
Operating systems | Windows 7, Windows 9x, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 |
Website | pdfforge |
Download | http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/files/PDFCreator/PDFCreator%201.0.0/PDFCreator-1_0_0_setup.exe/download |
file size | 16.90MB |
License type | GPL |