Open Source PDFCreator AlternativesPDF Printers and other similar apps like PDFCreator

The best open source alternative to PDFCreator is Stirling-PDF. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PDFCreator and 11 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to PDFCreator are clawPDF, CubePDF, RWTS PDFwriter and Q-PDF Creator Easy.

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  1. Stirling-PDF icon
     49 likes

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

    86 Stirling-PDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker Hub
    • Cloudron
     
    • 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
  2.  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.

    40 clawPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. CubePDF icon
     2 likes

    CubePDF is a Windows virtual printer that allows you to convert to PDF when you need it from any application, including Web browsers, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint (PPT), bitmap files (PNG, JPEG, BMP), etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. RWTS PDFwriter is an OSX 11.0+ compatible print driver that enables you to “print” your documents directly to a pdf file. It has similar functionality to CutePDF on Windows.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Q-PDF Creator Easy allows you to create professional PDF documents from any application that is able to print.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. PdfScribe icon
     1 like

    A PDF virtual printer for 64-bit Windows 7 / 2008R2 or later. - stchan/PdfScribe

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. qvPDF icon
     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.

    105 qvPDF alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. pdfly icon
     1 like

    pdfly (say: PDF-li) is a pure-python CLI application for manipulating PDF files.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
     
  9. CUPS-PDF icon
     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
     
  10. HRConvert2 icon
     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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11.  3 likes

    PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write pdfs with Python.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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