Open Source PDFCreator Alternatives

The best open source alternative to PDFCreator is clawPDF. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PDFCreator and nine of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to PDFCreator are CUPS-PDF, qvPDF, PDFwriter for Mac and PyPDF2.

PDFCreator alternatives are mainly PDF Editors but may also be PDF Readers or Video Converters. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of PDFCreator.

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clawPDF
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Free • Open Source
Windows
37 alternatives to clawPDF
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.
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clawPDF Features
Print to PDF
CUPS-PDF
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
55 alternatives to CUPS-PDF
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.
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Print to PDF
qvPDF
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Free • Open Source
Windows
101 alternatives to qvPDF
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.
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qvPDF Features
1. Split PDF filesqvPDF can split PDF files into multiple documents.
2. Combine PDFCombine, merge and arrange PDF files into one document.
Print to PDF
Create PDF files
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, 3.1, released in September 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
PDFwriter for Mac
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Free • Open Source
Mac
62 alternatives to PDFwriter for Mac
PDFwriter is a printer driver for Mac OS X, which will let you generate PDF files by simply printing.
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PDFwriter for Mac Features
Print to PDF
Edit PDF
Create PDF files
PyPDF2
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Free • Open Source
PDF Editor
Mac
Windows
Linux
60 alternatives to PyPDF2
PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write pdfs with Python.
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PyPDF2 Features
1. Combine PDFCombine, merge and arrange PDF files into one document.
2. Split PDF filesPyPDF2 can split PDF files into multiple documents.
3. PDF encryptionPyPDF2 can encrypt and decrypt PDF documents.
HRConvert2
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Free • Open Source
Image Converter
Self-Hosted
181 alternatives to HRConvert2
HRConvert2 is an open-source web-app that converts files without tracking users across the net or infringing on your intellectual property.
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File conversion
Image resizing
PdfScribe
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Free • Open Source
Windows
10 alternatives to PdfScribe
A PDF virtual printer for 64-bit Windows 7 / 2008R2 or later. - stchan/PdfScribe
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PdfScribe Features
Print to PDF
Add a screenshot
CubePDF
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Free • Open Source
Windows
16 alternatives to CubePDF
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.
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Convert Excel to PDF document
Print to PDF
Convert Word documents to PDF
JPG to PDF Conversion
Q-PDF Creator Easy
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Free • Open Source
Windows
16 alternatives to Q-PDF Creator Easy
Q-PDF Creator Easy allows you to create professional PDF documents from any application that is able to print.
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Q-PDF Creator Easy Features
Create PDF files

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