The program allow you to save the document when you made changes in the document. This is an open source program and it will take much less space. Here i am listing some of the free program that are alternate to the Adobe acrobat writer. There are lot of other program that can be used for editing the PDF files. you can secure the document using the password protection. This file format, created by Adobe Systems, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems, Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it. Pretty slick definitely the winner in my book.Portable Document Format ( PDF) is an open standard for document exchange. It installs itself in the menu/toolbar of IE for one click printing. Has a sourceforge account (I didn't check the license, but it was some form of open source). It was easy to install, looked very professional interface. It had a nag message on the 'Save as.' dialog box. They needed to distribute it separately, presumably, because of the GPL license on ghostscript. It did require (though) ghostscript install (8mb easily downloadable from their website). Nothing special just a normal PDF printer, etc etc. which was kind of annoying.ĬutePDF Writer again was OK. No bells and whistles, but just got the job done. PDF995 was a standard printer based package.

All in all, though, pretty decent package. It didn't look very professional though, and seemed to have been shareware.

PDF_Redirect v2.2.5 seemed to be the most complete and full featured of the free software. NET 2.0, which was over 20 Megs on top of the 20 megs for the software itself, and seemed more bloatware than anything else. Several different ones are out there I eval'd:įirst off, let me say that PrimoPDF was a flop. So, I was checking out different free (or open source) pdf creating software for windows.

Pdfcreator vs cutepdf writer