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virtual printer In computing a virtual printer is a simulated device whose user interface and API resemble that of a printer driver, but which is not connected to a physical computer printer. When a document is "printed" by a virtual printer, instead of physica ...

software:

Free software

The following are distributed under

free software Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed open-source license, under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, distribut ...

licences: * CC PDF Converter (discontinued) – A Ghostscript-based virtual printer. * cups-pdf – An open source Ghostscript-based virtual printer that can be shared with Windows users over the LAN. CUPS *

Ghostscript Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization of documents in these language,, the display or prin ...

– A command-line library for creation of

PostScript PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm, but as a Turing complete programming language, it c ...

and PDF files.

Freeware

The following are

proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software, software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing t ...

but free of charge:

Virtual PDF printers

Virtual PDF printers for Microsoft Windows: * Bullzip PDF Printer – there is a free version * CutePDF * DoPDF – this is a simplified version of NovaPDF * PDFCreator – a

-based virtual printer for Microsoft Windows, with user interface for advanced options (security settings, combining multiple documents, etc.). * PrimoPDF * Print To PDF - ships with Windows 10 and 11 * PDF24 Creator – a free virtual PDF printer for Microsoft Windows, with user interface and additional tools like merging, splitting, compressing and assembling PDF files.

Commercial

Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (former ...

– Adobe System's commercial PDF authoring suite includes

Adobe Distiller Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a software application for converting documents from PostScript format to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format), the native format of the Adobe Acrobat family of products. It was first shipped as a component of Acrobat in ...

, a virtual printer for converting documents to PDF files. Adobe Distiller is not included with the free-to-use Adobe Reader product.

Virtual printers

Virtual printers for Microsoft Windows: * Microsoft Office Document Image Writer – Included in Microsoft Office Professional allowing documents to be saved in TIFF or Microsoft Document Imaging Format. MODI is only supported in 32 bit Windows' versions. * Universal Document Converter – Creating PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PCX, DCX and BMP files. Free version adds watermark.

Notes

:1.This software has risk of installing potentially unwanted programs. For more information, refer to its main article.

References

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