PDFCreator Alternatives for Linux

PDFCreator is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Aspose.Pdf for Cloud. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try pdfly or CUPS-PDF. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to PDFCreator and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to PDFCreator are PyPDF2 and PdfIt.

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PDFCreator alternatives are mainly PDF Editors, but if you're looking for PDF Printers or Website Downloaders you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Linux and Mac. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to PDFCreator.
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  1. 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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    pdfly

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  4. CUPS-PDF icon

    CUPS-PDF

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    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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  5. PyPDF2

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    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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    PdfIt

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    The Pdf It! extension is designed for FireFox and runs on any platform: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The Pdf It! menu item will be installed at Browser-->Tools menu as well as context menu

    60 PdfIt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
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