(versions prior to 0.9.7 have a different, optional toolbar called "PDFCreator Toolbar"), states that the software will: The end-user-license agreement for Pdfforge Toolbar by Spigot, Inc. Starting with version 0.9.7 (February 2009), PDFCreator has included a new toolbar application that is considered by many to be malicious software. Starting with version 0.9.6, there is full support for Windows Vista and version 0.9.7 provides support for Windows 7. Encryption can be either 40 bits, compatible with Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or 4.0, or 128 bits for Acrobat 5.0 or higher. The former is required to open the PDF file, while the latter is necessary in order to change permissions and password. The user can also choose between two types of passwords, user and owner, to restrict PDF files in several ways. PDFCreator allows the user to disable printing, copying of text or images and modifying the original document. In addition to the spyware activity described below, the toolbar allows one-click creation PDFs from the current webpage and includes a search tool.
Although technically an optional component, the opt-out procedure is a multi-step process which is considered by many to be intentionally confusing. The installation package includes a closed-source browser toolbar that is considered by many users to be malicious software (see below).
NET, VBA, Perl, Python, Ruby, WinBatch, Windows Scripting Host (JScript, VBScript), to utilise and control PDFCreator programatically. Since version 0.8.1 RC9 (2005) PDFCreator supports access to its functionality via an ActiveX/COM interface this allows programs written in other languages, like C#, Delphi, Visual Basic. It also allows to digitally sign PDF documents. PDFCreator can convert to the following file formats: PDF (including PDF/A (1b) and PDF/X (X-3:2002, X-3:2003 and X-4), PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, TIFF, PS, EPS, TXT, PSD, PCL, RAW. ps files to manually convert PostScript to PDF format. The actual PDF generation is handled by Ghostscript.īesides being installed as a virtual printer, PDFCreator can be associated with. It works with 64-bit and 32-bit Windows versions including Windows 7, internally using mostly 32-bit code. The application is GPL-licensed free software, written in Microsoft Visual Basic. It works by creating a virtual printer that prints to PDF files, and thereby allows practically any application to create PDF files by choosing to print from within the application and then printing to the PDFCreator printer. PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
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