Portable Document Format (PDF) has been one of the ideal formats for quite some time now. PDF has the advantages that it can be shared easily and also has password protection and encryption. Even though Word also has these features, PDF comes better when sharing documents. Another advantage is that PDF readers are freely available. So here is the list of 5 freewares to convert documents to PDF formats.
1. PrimoPDF- PrimoPDF is one of the best converters available to create DF documents. It is a completely free PDF creator and can create PDF files from 300+ file types. It also create PDF files optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.It can create PDF from any application that has a print option.
2. BullZip- The BullZip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application. This program is freeware, but free only for personal and commercial use up to 10 users.
3. PDF Creator- PDF Creator allows you to create PDF files from documents, spreadsheets, presentations, emails, websites, and virtually any file that can be printed. PDF Creator is a virtual printer so it’s automatically integrated and ready for use in all of your favourite Windows programs.
4. doPDF- doPDF installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter.
5. PDF995- PDF995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps you to create PDF files by simply selecting the “print” command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer.
If you use any other good free PDF converters, please share it in comments.
Oops! I have never used anyone of the above. Let me try the first one… nice post…
url in the first line of primopdf is that of pdf creator, check out…
thanks for sharing these pdf convertors with us
can u share some video convertors.
i faced a lot of problem while converting one video file
I think dopdf is better than all…i have been using it for some time now.
@Pavan,
Thanks for pointing it out.
@Ajay,
I will try to post one.
@Abhishek,
I feel Bullzip is the best one in terms of features.
Nirmal-
My favorite is doPDF which I use a lot for my day to activities and have been using it for quite sometime. Which one is your favorite?
Hi ! I use two other tools . First is OpenOffice , which is free and Open source alternative of MSOffice .Another one is PDFCreator which is again an Open Source tool at sourceforge , I guess it is different from yours PDFCreator !
And , why I hate some other FREE virtual PDF printers because , most of them give a low quality output with a bottom line like : “this pdf is created using ….” !
Last month I have tried almost all of them,can anyone say me how to use it.I download them and clicked on set up file,after the installation gets completed I cant find a shortcut of it or any file of it! Can anyone explain ?
@Rockstar Sid,
These are printer based. After installation, open any document which you want to convert to PDF, now go to print document and here in the list of printers you can see the installed software. By selecting this option, your PDF will be generated and saved on your PC. These softwares are not standalone ones.
I used only dopdf and primopdf. Those are really simple pdf converters.
Hey nirmal – there is openoffice. a free software alternative to ms office. you can open/create documents in any format, then do a save-as and choose pdf (lots of other options also.. ) no need of any converting. – Arunjith
nice list nirmal
never tried anyone but will go with ur recommendation and will try BullZip
nice list nirmal will try bullzip ….
I’ve only used pdf creator and i am quite satisfied with it. which one you say is the best?
Good list.
I use PDF Redirect.
The basic version is free.
Nice List of Converters
Thanks
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do pdf is the best
I go for bookmarklets when saving webpages as PDF.
And for all other PDF needsm I use PDFCreator found at SourceForge.net
I like using pdf@koolwire.com
you just need to mail them the documents and converted file will be mailed back
no registration…and fast
Can you suggest a open-source converter for PDF-to-DXF ?