FREE PDF Writer

PDFill PDF Writer is installed as a "printer subsystem” to create highest quality PDF that is distilled directly from Postscript using latest version of GhostScript. With just a push of a button,  virtually any Windows applications (HTML, Microsoft® Word, PowerPoint, Excel, AutoCad, and More) can be converted into business quality PDF documents. It contains no watermarks or pop-up advertisements. It is absolutely FREE!

1. Install FREE GhostScript before Use:

After the installation, please start PDFill PDF Editor. PDFill PDF Editor will detect the system to see if you have installed GhostScript. If not, PDFill PDF Editor will download it for you automatically. You can also download and install GhostScript 8.61 (12MB) manually from ww.PDFill.com

2. Create PDF files:

To use your PDFill PDF Writer, open the file that you would like to print to PDF. Select the Print option (usually found under File > Print), and select PDFill PDF Writer from the list of available printers. You will be prompted to select the destination directory and filename for your output file.

Please note that some applications, such as NotePad, will automatically print to your default printer when you select the Print option. If you want to print to PDFill PDF Writer, you may need to change your printer selection within that application before printing the file. This can typically be done from Page Setup.

Through advanced Printing Preferences, you can change paper size, orientation, layout, color, resolution,  automatic font embedding, image enhancement and more features.

3. Change PDFill PDF Writer Preferences

From Start Menu  > All Programs  > PDFill > Preferences, Output Options: Use default folder location; Use print job name; View PDF after saving

4. Uninstall PDF Writer

Activate the Control Panel, double click Add/Remove Programs, and double click on the PDFill PDF Writer list box entry.

5. Frequent Asked Questions:

If you have problem with Vista 32 bit Please try 6.0 beta  in 32 bit.
For XP/2003/Vista 64 Bit users, Please try 6.0 beta in 64 bit.
No PDFill PDF Writer Found Under my Printers Please go to Folder C:\Program Files\PlotSoft\PDFill\PDFWriter, Click Setup.exe to install.
PDF Writer doesn't work After the installation, please start PDFill PDF Editor. PDFill PDF Editor will detect the system to see if you have installed GhostScript. If not, PDFill PDF Editor will download it for you automatically. You can also download and install GhostScript 8.61 (12MB) manually from ww.PDFill.com

Please start PDFill PDF Editor to open a pdf file,  fill with some texts, then, save into a new pdf. If it works, it means that you have installed GhostScript perfectly.

PDF Writer doesn't work

Install Printer Driver failed

PDF Writer is not showing up in my print
 window selection.

Follow the steps below to add a Printer manually afterwards.
1) Go to Control Panel -> Printers and Faxes to add a local printer.
2) Choose "PDFill PDF Writer" on Select a Printer Port dialog box, click Next.
3) Choose a Postscript Printer (PS) (e.g. Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600), click Next.
4) Enter "My PDF Writer" as Printer name, click Next -> Finish.

If you still have problem, you need to Print your document into a Postscript file (my.ps) using this  Postscript printer. Then, convert this PS file into PDF using Free PDFill PDF Tools.

If you still have problem, try the FREE CutePDF PDF Writer from here.

International Text characters are wrong or missing in generated PDF file. On Win2000/XP boxes, select PDFill PDF Writer properties in the application print dialog box and click "Advanced". Select "Download as Softfont" (default is "Substitute with Device Fonts") on TrueType Fonts setting for font embedding. 

On Win98/ME boxes, open the property of PDFill PDF Writer and change the Fonts setting to "Always use TrueType fonts".
PDF Writer creates PRN(*.prn) file instead of PDF. Please don't click "print to file". The new PDF will be created in a few seconds.
Change Page Size Print Properties -> Advanced ->Page Size->Postscript Custom Page Size
Change Page Orientation After the PDF file is created, start Free PDFill PDF Tools and select "Rotate or Crop PDF Pages"
Problem to uninstall PDFill PDF Writer. The CPWPT130: Port provided by PDFill PDF Writer is still being used. Put all the files under
http://www.pdfill.com/download/pdfwriter/
into C:\Program Files\PlotSoft\PDFill\PDFWriter, then, run uninstall
Hoe can I add Web link in the new PDF? There are two ways:
1. In your doc, please show the link explicitly: PDFill PDF Editor (http://www.PDFill.com)
2. Add a Web link by PDFill PDF Editor. See here.
PDFill PDF Editor and PDF Tools support 64 bit OS, but the  free PDFill PDF Writer doesn't support 64 Bit OS. Please try the FREE CutePDF PDF Writer from here for your 64 bit OS. You can still use PDFill PDF Editor and PDFill PDF Tools in your 64 bit OS.

6. Get Free Support

Please see Support information.

 

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