clawPDF
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Open Source Virtual (Network) Printer for Windows that allows you to create PDFs, OCR text, and print images, with advanced features usually available only in enterprise solutions.
clawPDF // PDFCreator 2.3 fork
Yet another PDF Printer? Yes! This PDF Printer has the intention to be completely open source.
Open Source virtual PDF printer for Windows 7 / 8 / 10 / 2008 / R2 / 2016 / 2019
Print to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, PNG, JPEG, TIF and text
Download
https://github.com/clawsoftware/clawPDF/releases/download/0.8.4/clawPDF_0.8.4_setup.msi
Tested under
- Windows Server 2016 RDS/Terminalserver
- Windows 10 x32/x64
- Windows 8 x32/x64
- Windows 7 x32/x64
Changelog
v0.8.4 (2019.06.11)
- [bugfix] unicode filename support (thx to daooze for bugreport)
v0.8.3 (2019.05.31)
- [bugfix] starts under System-Account
- [cleanup] migrated code from c++ to c#
- [update] ghostscript 9.27
- [bugfix] author metadata
v0.8.01 (2019.02.10)
- [bugfix] performance boost for RDS environments
v0.8.0 (2019.02.10)
- initial version
Features
- print to PDF, PDF/A, PDF/X, PNG, JPEG, TIF and text
- 24 languages
- many settings
- easy to use
- easy to deploy (MSI-Installer)
- no adware, spyware, nagware
- ...
Requirements
- .Net Framework 4.5.2+
Screenshot
Roadmap
- keep ghostscript up to date (continuous process)
- add more features
- remove DataStorage.dll, DynamicTranslator.dll and TrueTypeFontInfo.dll
- rewrite group policy settings
- batch printing
Build
- Visual Studio 2019
Third-party
clawPDF uses the following licensed software or parts of the source code:
- main code: PDFCreator 2.3 (https://github.com/pdfforge/PDFCreator), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
- PDF library: iTextSharp 5.5.13 (https://github.com/itext/itextsharp), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
- logging: Nlog 4.5.11 (https://github.com/NLog/NLog), licensed under BSD 3-Clause.
- parts of the ghostscript control: PdfScribe 1.0.6 (https://github.com/stchan/PdfScribe), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
- redirection Port Monitor: clawmon (https://github.com/clawsoftware/clawmon), licensed under GPL v2 license.
- Postscript Printer Drivers: Microsoft Postscript Printer Driver V3 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/print/microsoft-postscript-printer-driver), copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- Postscript and PDF interpreter/renderer: Ghostscript 9.27 (https://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html), licensed under AGPL v3 license.
- SystemWrapper 0.25.0.186 (https://github.com/jozefizso/SystemWrapper), licensed under Microsoft Public license.
- ftplib 1.0.1.1 (https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=ftplib), licensed under MIT license.
- DataStorage.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
- DynamicTranslator.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
- TrueTypeFontInfo.dll, licensed under pdfforge Freeware License.
- appbar_save (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
- appbar_cogs (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
- appbar_page_file_pdf (http://modernuiicons.com/), licensed under Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
License
clawPDF is licensed under AGPL v3 license
Copyright (C) 2019 // Andrew Hess // clawSoft