PDFCreator - Create PDF Files for Free on Windows [Tutorial]

This tutorial covers how to install and use PDFCreator to create free PDF documents.

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This tutorial covers how to use PDF Creator
to make PDF files from any Windows program
that can print. PDF Creator installs a virtual
printer that can be used to print any file
to a PDF document. This does not actually
print out on a piece of paper, but instead
creates a PDF document file that is saved
on your computer. You can later email it,
print it, or do anything else you would with
any other PDF document file.
Let’s download and install PDF Creator.
Open a web browser like “Internet Explorer”.
In the “Address Bar” enter “pdfforge.org”,
and press enter.
Click on the “Download” link.
Click the “Download PDFCreator Button”.
There are two versions listed. On the right
is the latest Beta version of PDFCreator.
On the left is the latest stable version of
PDFCreator. Unless there is a new feature
you need or a problem you should select the
latest stable version.
On the “PDFCreator 1.7.3” box, click the
“Download” button.
.On the “Download Information Bar” click
on the “Run” button to download and then
automatically start the installation.
If you have “User Account Control” enabled,
click the “Yes” button.
On the “Select Setup Language” window,
click the “OK” button.
On the “Welcome…” screen click the “Next>”
button.
On the “License Agreement” screen, read
the agreement, click to select “I accept
the agreement”, and then click the “Next>”
button.
On the “Select Components” screen, deselect
“PDFArchitect”, and click the “Next>”
button.
On the “Ready to Install” screen, click
the “Install” button.
A screen will then pop up that says “Installing
Please Check this offer while your software
is being installed.
Click the “Cancel” button to decline the
offer to install additional software.
After the setup has finished click the “Finish”
button.
Now that setup has finished
we can print from any program that supports
printing to the PDFCreator virtual printer
to create a PDF.
As an example we will print the PDFCreator
web page.
Click on the “Tools” button in Internet
Explorer, print, print.
This will open the Windows “Print” window.
If we look under “Select Printer”, we
will see that a new printer has been added
called “PDFCreator”.
It was installed as the default printer, which
we can see from the green check mark. It is
currently selected as it is highlighted in
blue.
Click the “Print” button.
The PDFCreator window will open.
Modify the information like Document Title,Author,Subject,
and Keywords.
Click the “Save” button.
The “Save as” window opens. Select the
location you want to save the PDF. We will
just save it to the Documents folder.
Enter a name for the file, We will call this
test. Click the “Save” button.
Let’s open the Documents folder and review
our new PDF file.
Click on the “File Explorer” icon on the
taskbar, or use the keyboard shortcut Windows
key + E.
Here we have the test PDF file we created.
You can create a PDF file from any Windows
program that prints. You cannot edit the PDF
document with this program. I will link to
another tutorial that shows how to edit the
contents of a PDF document for those that
need to make edits.
Let’s review the contents by opening it.
The PDF will open in your default PDF viewer.
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