Whenever I need to create a PDF document I always am in a state of “quickly search for a PDF converter tool”. It’s because I regularly reinstall my PC and a PDF converter is just not one of the core things I install right away.

Lately I’ve been using PDF995, I’ve tried other ones but in some cases they screw up parts of my make-up of content, not showing particular fonts or weirdly enlarging other bits (including Adobe’s own). PDF995 does not have this problem but it has this nagging screen which is a little annoyance and it’s a 2 step install. It’s also the utility I hear mostly around me when we discuss the topic. And yes, I have tried a zillion the past years.

However…

Now I found the CC PDF Converter 2/568, which is a little free open source utility which let’s me print to PDF from whatever application and as a bonus: has a screen to include Creative Commons licenses to the PDF, which actually is a nice goodie if you come to think about it. Whenever you have PDF’s floating over the Internet it would be nice to somehow include a license along with it.

I downloaded it and tried it with some “difficult” documents, which means that they do not show up corretly in some open source, shareware or buyware programs. And… it looks great! So here it is, a little (7mb download) utility, just one installer, no nagging screens, open source,

This is also a nice one for the laptop of my wife. I now installed PDF995 at her laptop but the screens popping up after she has to “choose another printer” are quite confusing, so … I’m going for CC PDF Converter now.

• download CC PDF Converter here 2/568 (sourcecode will be available)
• The CC PDF Weblog 2/78
• The guy who wrote the utlity: Yoav Ezer 0/10

Here are some screenshots from the utility.

2/568	- You just choose to print to CC PDF Converter just like the other PDF Converters. - It has the option to print multiple pages per sheet, which is very handy! - Under advanced you can select the pagesize, scaling of graphics. - You can also choose whether to open the PDF file after it has printed it, which is something I really think is very very nice, sometimes you want that to open and sometimes, when a novice user is using it (kuch) you don’t want to confuse him/her with a screen popping up - You can choose what to do with TrueType fonts e.g. download them as softfont
Submit	- You can choose whether to include a license or not - You can choose between Creative Commons, Sampling or Public Domain - When you choose Creative Commons you get the Wizard which asks you the relevant CC questions, after which it will be included, if you choose one of the other licensing types you get another wizard.
	The movie shows you the action!

So… I will put this one in my essential tools collection, next to Total Commander and Irfanview, If you want it too : Download it here 2/568!

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