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Bullzip PDF printer is free-of-charge
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(PDF) files by selecting to "print" to the Bullzip PDF printer instead of a physical printer.Bullzip Free PDF Printer
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Features

The Bullzip PDF Printer works by creating a
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in order to translate the document into the Portable Document Format, and requires Ghostscript 9.0 or later. It can be viewed as a printer option in your printing properties once installed. Bullzip is free for personal or commercial use by not more than ten users. There is also a commercial version called bioPDF. A review in 2020 reported that the virtual printer had the features of most such programs, with additional security features, including password-protecting PDF files during creation with 128/40 encryption, and watermarking. It stated that PDF files created were not searchable, tended to be larger than produced by other programs, and that conversion was rather slow. It is not limited to PDF, also producing BMP, JPEG, PCX, PNG, and TIFF files. It offers quality settings for screen, printer, ebook, and prepress. An unusual feature is the ability to append content to an existing PDF file.


PDF Studio

Bullzip also publish free software "PDF Studio" which can view PDFs and merge, search, print, split, delete, and move pages.


See also

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References


External links

* {{Official website, https://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php


Reviews


BullZip PDF Printer (Review) by Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine, August 17, 2007
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090203123605/https://www.pcworld.com/article/158504/biopdf_pdf_writer_basically_bullzip_and_thats_great.html BioPDF PDF Writer: Basically Bullzip, And That's Great by Jon L. Jacobi, PC World, January 30, 2009] PDF software