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Create your free PDF files with PDFCreator

We are all accustomed by now to receive files in PDF format and read them using Acrobat Reader or other compatible programs. But you can generate PDF files for free from our documents, to distribute a compatible version and not modifiable?

On Windows you use often products of Microsoft Office package to create letters, reports, charts and presentations. Until the 2003 version of Office, the format for saving documents was difficult for distribution to people who had not even their Office and possibly the same version.

Many still use Office 2003 or earlier versions such as XP version or version 2000. For all these users generate PDF files from their own work is so immediate.

There is a free product called PDFCreator (also available in Italian) that is in distress who must generate PDF files without buying expensive conversion programs (such as Adobe Acrobat). This program is installed in your PC running Windows and create a printed "virtual" in the printer.

Installation is simple, the only care is to disable, if not interested, a toolbar that the program adds to Internet Explorer. You see in the picture below shows the check box to delete if you do not want this added functionality.

Once installed, you will find among your printers, a printer name "PDFCreator" and this will be printed from the window of printing options for each program. The figure shows an example the print window in Word 2003.

PDFCreator choosing to run the press, you will get a simple window where continued insert information as the author of the document, some dates, keywords and other data, all optional. At this point, with the save button, choose the PDF file name and location where to save it.

Finished! This ability to generate PDF through a virtual print is absolutely compatible with any Windows program that has the option of printing. You can then generate PDF from any type of work, by letter to the thesis with both graphics and photos.

The advantage given by the PDF format is its portability, or can be viewed and printed anywhere in the correct format, respecting the settings page, and the general format of the document. E 'useful, for example, when you have to work hand in the printing and photocopying which normally have difficulties to deal directly Office files.

PDF Creator is also equipped with several advanced options that allow a detailed configuration and in the process of saving the PDF may be possible to change the format, choosing a different type of files between PDF, PNG, TIFF, JPG, PS, EPS and other yet.

Download PDFCreator (15 Mb) or visit the website PDFForge dedicated to open source (and free) to work with PDF files.

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