PDFCreator AlternativesPDF Printers and other similar apps like PDFCreator

PDFCreator is described as 'Allows you to convert any document into a PDF by acting as a virtual printer. It offers features like merging, digital signatures, password protection, and automation for efficient workflows. Its user-friendly settings help you optimize your PDFs easily' and is a very popular PDF Printer in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to PDFCreator for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Mac, Android and iPhone apps. The best PDFCreator alternative is PDF-XChange Editor, which is free. Other great apps like 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.

    141 PDF-XChange Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    Version 10 (2024)
     
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    Leaves free version watermark

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    • PDF-XChange Editor is the most popular Windows alternative to PDFCreator.

    • PDF-XChange Editor is the most popular free alternative to PDFCreator.

    • PDF-XChange Editor is Freemium and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
    • PDF-XChange Editor is Customizable and Privacy focusedPDFCreator is not according to our users
  2. PDF24 Creator icon

    PDF24 Creator

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    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.

    171 PDF24 Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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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.
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    • Almost everyone thinks PDF24 Creator is a great PDFCreator alternative.

    • PDF24 Creator is Free and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
  4. Stirling-PDF icon

    Stirling-PDF

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    locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files.

    87 Stirling-PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker Hub
    • Cloudron
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    • Stirling-PDF is the most popular Web-based, Mac & Self-Hosted alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Stirling-PDF is the most popular Open Source alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Stirling-PDF is Freemium and Open SourcePDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
    • Stirling-PDF is Privacy focusedPDFCreator is not according to our users
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    doPDF

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

    88 doPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    I need just a PDF printer...

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    • Most users think doPDF is a great PDFCreator alternative.

    • doPDF is Free and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
  10. Soda PDF icon

    Soda PDF

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    Soda PDF was created with the user in mind. Smart, reliable, and accessible, our software is designed with a focus on giving you the most useful features in an easy-to-use package.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Comment feature in Soda PDF Desktop
     

    • Soda PDF is the most popular SaaS alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Soda PDF is the most popular commercial alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Soda PDF is Paid and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
    • Soda PDF is Privacy focusedPDFCreator is not according to our users
  11. CutePDF Writer icon

    CutePDF Writer

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    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...

    79 CutePDF Writer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. iLovePDF icon

    iLovePDF

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    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!

    136 iLovePDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Homepage
     

    • iLovePDF is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to PDFCreator.

    • iLovePDF is Freemium and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
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    PDFill

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    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...

    162 PDFill alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    The only free pdf-software able to split very big pdf-files over 200 pages
     
  14. Universal Document Converter icon

    Universal Document Converter

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    The underlying basis of the program is the technology of virtual printing. As a result, exporting documents into a chosen format is not any more complicated than printing on a desktop printer.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  15. Aspose.Pdf for Cloud icon

    Aspose.Pdf for Cloud

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    Aspose.Pdf for Cloud is a REST API to create, edit & manipulate PDF files. It also convert PDF file to DOC, DOCX, HTML, XPS, TIFF etc. You can create a new PDF either from scratch or from HTML, XML, template, database, XPS or an image.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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    • Aspose.Pdf for Cloud is the most popular Linux alternative to PDFCreator.

    • Aspose.Pdf for Cloud is Paid and ProprietaryPDFCreator is Free Personal and Open Source
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