Open Source Acrobat.com - Create PDF AlternativesPDF Readers and other similar apps like Acrobat.com - Create PDF

The best open source alternative to Acrobat.com - Create PDF is PDFsam. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Acrobat.com - Create PDF and seven of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Acrobat.com - Create PDF are PDFCreator, PDFedit, qvPDF and CUPS-PDF.

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  1. PDFsam icon

    PDFsam

     227 likes

    Free and open source desktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF files.

    148 PDFsam alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Create PDF? PDFsam can't do it

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • PDFsam is Freemium and Open SourceAcrobat.com - Create PDF is Freemium and Proprietary
    • PDFsam is LightweightAcrobat.com - Create PDF is not according to our users
  2. PDFCreator icon

    PDFCreator

     262 likes

    PDFCreator is a virtual PDF printer that converts any printable document into a PDF file. It works with all Windows applications, including Word, Excel, browsers, and design tools.

    110 PDFCreator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
    PDFCreator 6.2.1 interface
     
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    PDFedit

     24 likes

    Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + commandline interface. Scripting is used to a great extent in editor and almost anything can be scripted, it is possible to create own scripts or plugins.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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    qvPDF

     19 likes

    qvPDF is a PDF creator for Windows, but you can also merge & split. Its implemented as printer driver and uses plugins to execute different actions after creating the PDF. Processing parameters can be written directly into the printed document like: @|mapi.mailto=me@you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    CUPS-PDF

     5 likes

    CUPS-PDF is designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF printer on the central fileserver. It is available under the GPL and is packaged for many different distributions or can be built directly out of the source files.

    55 CUPS-PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    PoDoFoBrowser

     2 likes

    PoDoFoBrowser is a graphical browser and editor for the object structure of PDF files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    HRConvert2

     1 like

    HRConvert2 is an open-source web-app that converts files without tracking users across the net or infringing on your intellectual property.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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