Hi all
El 20/10/15 a las 09:39, Matthias Kirschner escribió:
- Michael Kesper mkesper@schokokeks.org [2015-10-19 17:49:07 +0200]:
About "print to pdf": Most people I know use PDFCreator for that. Just be sure not to install any malware with it. "I LOVE Windows"™.
I recently heard PDFCreator's new versions are meanwhile non-free. Has anyone checked? And does anyone know why this change happened?
This is my check:
* http://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator has the download builds and zips with the source code. The source code of latest version (2.1.2) does not include a LICENSE file.
* I have installed PDFCreator 2.1.2 in the computers of my institution. If I go to the Help > License, I find the text attached.
* So: almost free, but bundled with a non-free library: pdfcmon.dll: pdfforge Freeware License
* In addition to this, the installer of PDFCreator shows ads (and the installer is detected as malicious by our BitDefender Antivirus because of that), plus it tries to install "PDF Architect" along with PDF Creator (and PDF Architect is not free), so the "good install" is difficult for the average user (you have to tell them to select the "compact install", not the typical one nor the full installation...).
This situation has made me write in my TODO list to try to find an alternative to PDFCreator for the windows users in my institution (and all the windows users that ask me for that). But I don't know how will I find time to research about alternatives.
Ideally, most of the people should use LibreOffice here and then, save as PDF directly, but I still have lot of work until we get there, plus that PDF Creator is used by many people to save as PDF not only from office suite, but from any program.
If/when I find something better I will report to this list.
Best