A virtual Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to print as PDF, BMP, JPEG, PCX, PNG, and TIFF files from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.
This program is free for personal and commercial use up to 10 users. It does not contain advertising or popups but it does offer to install AVG during setup. For commercial applications with more that 10 users there is
bioPDF
This program is free for personal and commercial use up to 10 users. It does not contain advertising or popups but it does offer to install AVG during setup. For commercial applications with more that 10 users there is
bioPDF
My personal ranking of the 4 PDF-printers is:
Advantages of doPDF over Bullzip PDF PRINTER, CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
With one click you can make this folder to the standard folder where to store doPDF-files
Advantages of doPDF and Bullzip PDF PRINTER over CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
PROs & CONs of Bullzip PDF PRINTER over CutePDF Writer and qvPDF
PRO: You can hook to open the target-folder with the new PDF-file after creating it
CON: the suggested filename has all word 2 times instead only one time. To delete it costs time
PROs & CONs of CutePDF
CON: Installation of Ask Toolbar is suggested, but can be hooked away
CON: Installation of Driver Updater is suggested, but can be declined by hooking it away
PROs & CONs of qvPDF
PRO: qvPDF is a PDF creator for Windows, but you can also merge & split pdf-documents.
CON: it is difficult to select the folder and name of the printed PDF-File
CON: No complete uninstalling with deleting all files and folders . In case of a reinstallation because of a printing problem, you have the problem again because the old settings are used again.
CON: I could not stop the printing of a document sent to the printer
Thank you!
Reply written almost 6 years ago
In the head line and footing line there should be the URL, date and "page X of N". The font of this information was defective, so that this information is not legible. In spite of some search I found for it no functioning settings.
I have found that Bullzip PDF Printer is much more reliable in my software solution that PDFCreator. Including a method that allows you to reliably determine when a document is finished printing is the key advantage. Also, without any extensive testing, Bullzip "seems" to be faster than PDFCreator.
Requires GPL Ghostscript. It's not an all-in-one solution like doPDF for example...
[Edited by Hexaae, April 04]
Still a very valid choice on Windows 10. Even with the Microsoft print to PDF function, Bullzip gives you more options and results in smaller files sizes. I wanted to export a simple word doc with custom fonts and no images. Words own export to pdf either changed the text to bitmap, or if disabled resulted in thick black lines. Using the print to PDF of Microsoft did result in the correct rendering, but the pdf was 900KB in size for just text. Trying Bullzip resulted in 47KB.
I also like that you can set the title and author and the default page view for the PDF. However it does take some time until the save dialog opens, so the program is not that fast.