Nitro Reader is a free reader and creator, but unlike the others on this list, it’s packed with additional features. He wrote up a nice tutorial on how to Convert Any Document, Image, Or Website into a PDF, which shows step by steps for installing and using using it.ĬutePDF is a creator only-it does not have include a viewer. No bloatware, no registration, no nag screens. What you get is a clean, simple document. To use it, all you have to do is print a document to the CutePDF Writer, just like you would to an actual printer. Pretty slick definitely the winner in my book.CutePDF is hands down the most popular free document creator, and for good reason. 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.
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