You can also edit a document's Creation and Modify dates or instantly add the current date and time. The steps are the same, with a screen full of fields to let us easily add Title, Author, Keywords, and more. If you can print a document, you can use this tool. We chose all the extras and opted to add the tool to context menus as well as the Print menu. PDFCreator's optional server installation mode can act as a network printer, but we chose the standard installation, which includes some optional downloads such as Images2PDF and PDFArchitect, plus some sample files and our choice of language and Help files. That's how PDFCreator from Pdforge works, though that's not all it does. But simple is good, which is why PDF tools that install themselves as print drivers may be our favorite of all.

Tools for creating PDF documents tend to fall somewhere between do-it-all packages with big names (and price tags to match) and freeware stripped down to the basics. If that sounds like a recommendation, it is. PDFCreator is easy to use yet creates high-quality PDFs and many other document types from the Print command or shell menu, for free.

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