Free PDFCreator AlternativesPDF Printers & PDF Editors like PDFCreator

The best free alternative to PDFCreator is PDF-XChange Editor. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PDFCreator and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to PDFCreator are PDF24 Creator, Stirling-PDF, PDF24 Tools and Bullzip PDF Printer.

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  1. PDF-XChange Editor icon

    PDF-XChange Editor

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    Feature-rich PDF editor offering direct content editing, ABBYY OCR, viewing, annotation, form filling, PDF merging, compression, and encryption. Operates efficiently offline, requiring no registration and no ads, while providing privacy-focused features and convenient portability.

    153 PDF-XChange Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    Version 10 (2024)
     
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    PDF-XChange Editor vs PDFCreator Comments
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    Leaves free version watermark

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • PDF-XChange Editor is Freemium and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
    • PDF-XChange Editor is CustomizablePDFCreator is not according to our users
  2. PDF24 Creator icon

    PDF24 Creator

     148 likes

    PDF24 Creator is free and feature-filled PDF creation, merging and conversion tool for Windows. Its unique feature among the free PDF printer tools is an editor, which allows to easily assemble, create and modify PDF files with Drag & Drop.

    180 PDF24 Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main window
     
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    PDF24 Creator vs PDFCreator Comments
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    I'm producing 25 x 10.65 inch pages with lots of images on them for a book. PDFCreator produces the pdfs but creates some fuzz around black text. Marginally visible at 100% zoom, very obvious at 200%. PDF24 Creators pdfs are perfect ..... as are 300 dpi jpegs! It's nice to be able to generate pdfs or jpegs from same program! Thanks you. - John M

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • PDF24 Creator is Free and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
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  8. doPDF icon

    doPDF

     86 likes

    doPDF allows you to freely convert documents to PDF files. It installs as a printer driver, enabling you to print from any Windows application.

    89 doPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    doPDF Main Window
     
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    doPDF vs PDFCreator Comments
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    Negative
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    I need just a PDF printer...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • doPDF is Free and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
  10. CutePDF Writer icon

    CutePDF Writer

     69 likes

    CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF...

    81 CutePDF Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    CutePDF Writer screenshot 1
     
  11. iLovePDF icon

    iLovePDF

     20 likes

    iLovePDF is an online service to work with PDF files completely free and easy to use. Merge PDF, split PDF, compress PDF, office to PDF, PDF to JPG and more!

    144 iLovePDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Homepage
     
  12. PDFill icon

    PDFill

     39 likes

    With PDFill you can create, fill, delete and submit PDF form fields; insert new formatted text, check, image, hyperlink, whiteout, highlight, drawing, comment and annotation anywhere in the document; save, print or email the filled and password-protected PDF; save and resume...

    168 PDFill alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    The only free pdf-software able to split very big pdf-files over 200 pages
     
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    clawPDF

     8 likes

    Yet another PDF Printer? Yes! This PDF Printer has the intention to be completely open source. Print to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, PNG, JPEG, TIF and text.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    clawPDF screenshot 1
     
  14. PrimoPDF icon

    PrimoPDF

     30 likes

    PrimoPDF is a handy and lightweight utility that converts just about any file type to a PDF by using the source program that created the file and its Print command. The conversion process is quick and efficient, bolstered by a clean, simple interface.

    84 PrimoPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PrimoPDF screenshot 1
     
  15. CometDocs icon

    CometDocs

     11 likes

    Free online conversion service. Possible to determine unknown file format too.

    Thats a pretty catchy selling point in itself—you can convert PDFs to Excel files, huge TIFF images to PDF, icon files into images, and the site even does a little OCR work on certain image-to-text co.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    CometDocs screenshot 1
     
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